Re: tramp: recovering from a dead connection

[Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>]

Yuri D'Elia <wavexx@thregr.org> writes:

Hi Yuri,

> On Thu, Nov 25 2021, Michael Albinus wrote:
>>> Using tramp on the current master has some issues when it comes down to
>>> flaky links.
>>
>> Have you tried "M-x tramp-rename-files" or "M-x tramp-rename-these-files"?
>> Both commands are intended for such situations.
>>
>> See also the Tramp manual, (info "(tramp) Renaming remote files")
>
> Just pressing M-x kept generating tramp errors. Not sure why, but I'm
> using amx, maybe that's related.
>
> Also, my intention was to kill the buffers. That is, I wanted to discard
> the local copy and forget about it.

Then, the best catch is "M-x tramp-cleanup-all-buffers". Preferred from
a buffer with a local default-directory.

If this doesn't work, pls set debug-on-error to t, and show the backtrace.

Best regards, Michael.