I am using the Tramp built into the most recent emacs-29 from the Emacs repository. Steps to reproduce the first problem: Augment ~/.config/rclone/rclone.conf with: [memory] type = memory Run: rm -rf ~/.emacs ~/.emacs.d && src/emacs -Q -l $DEBUG The content of $DEBUG probably is not essential to this bug. It contains: (setq native-comp-jit-compilation nil) (setq load-prefer-newer t) (setq tramp-verbose 10) Then write (find "/rclone:memory:/") into the *scratch* buffer and evaluate it using C-x C-e. After a while, a backtrace for an error "Lisp nesting exceeds ‘max-lisp-eval-depth’" appears. Attached to this mail are the contents of the backtrace buffer, and the contents of the *debug tramp/cache nil* and *debug tramp/rclone memory* buffers. I tried to debug the issue for myself for a while. The first issue I encountered, is that ‘tramp-rclone’ contains a call to ‘tramp-call-process’ with a DESTINATION of 0. ‘tramp-call-process’ contains (tramp-get-buffer-string destination) which in that case yields an error. I tried changing "destination" in that line into: (unless (eq destination 0) destination) But then other problems occur. Output of rclone --version: rclone v1.62.2 - os/version: arch (64 bit) - os/kernel: 6.3.9-arch1-1 (x86_64) - os/type: linux - os/arch: amd64 - go/version: go1.20.4 - go/linking: dynamic - go/tags: none In GNU Emacs 29.0.92 (build 2, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.24.38, cairo version 1.17.8) of 2023-06-25 built on huette Repository revision: d0147ff9e507cc4e99e0574eab106f95c8e9df1f Repository branch: emacs-29 Windowing system distributor 'The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.12101008 System Description: Arch Linux Configured using: 'configure --with-x-toolkit=gtk --with-native-compilation=yes --with-tree-sitter --with-json --with-mailutils --with-imagemagick' Configured features: ACL CAIRO DBUS FREETYPE GIF GLIB GMP GNUTLS GPM GSETTINGS HARFBUZZ IMAGEMAGICK JPEG JSON LCMS2 LIBOTF LIBSYSTEMD LIBXML2 M17N_FLT MODULES NATIVE_COMP NOTIFY INOTIFY PDUMPER PNG RSVG SECCOMP SOUND SQLITE3 THREADS TIFF TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS TREE_SITTER WEBP X11 XDBE XIM XINPUT2 XPM GTK3 ZLIB Important settings: value of $LC_COLLATE: C value of $LANG: C.UTF-8 locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix Major mode: Outline Minor modes in effect: shell-dirtrack-mode: t tooltip-mode: t global-eldoc-mode: t show-paren-mode: t electric-indent-mode: t mouse-wheel-mode: t tool-bar-mode: t menu-bar-mode: t file-name-shadow-mode: t global-font-lock-mode: t font-lock-mode: t blink-cursor-mode: t line-number-mode: t indent-tabs-mode: t transient-mark-mode: t auto-composition-mode: t auto-encryption-mode: t auto-compression-mode: t Load-path shadows: None found. Features: (shadow sort mail-extr emacsbug message mailcap yank-media puny dired dired-loaddefs rfc822 mml mml-sec epa derived epg rfc6068 epg-config gnus-util text-property-search mm-decode mm-bodies mm-encode mail-parse rfc2231 mailabbrev gmm-utils mailheader sendmail rfc2047 rfc2045 ietf-drums mm-util mail-prsvr mail-utils cl-extra debug help-fns radix-tree cl-print backtrace help-mode find-func tramp-cache noutline outline icons time-stamp tramp-rclone tramp-fuse tramp tramp-loaddefs trampver tramp-integration files-x tramp-compat rx shell pcomplete comint ansi-osc ansi-color ring parse-time iso8601 time-date format-spec auth-source cl-seq eieio eieio-core cl-macs cl-loaddefs cl-lib password-cache json subr-x map byte-opt gv bytecomp byte-compile rmc iso-transl tooltip cconv eldoc paren electric uniquify ediff-hook vc-hooks lisp-float-type elisp-mode mwheel term/x-win x-win term/common-win x-dnd tool-bar dnd fontset image regexp-opt fringe tabulated-list replace newcomment text-mode lisp-mode prog-mode register page tab-bar menu-bar rfn-eshadow isearch easymenu timer select scroll-bar mouse jit-lock font-lock syntax font-core term/tty-colors frame minibuffer nadvice seq simple cl-generic indonesian philippine cham georgian utf-8-lang misc-lang vietnamese tibetan thai tai-viet lao korean japanese eucjp-ms cp51932 hebrew greek romanian slovak czech european ethiopic indian cyrillic chinese composite emoji-zwj charscript charprop case-table epa-hook jka-cmpr-hook help abbrev obarray oclosure cl-preloaded button loaddefs theme-loaddefs faces cus-face macroexp files window text-properties overlay sha1 md5 base64 format env code-pages mule custom widget keymap hashtable-print-readable backquote threads dbusbind inotify lcms2 dynamic-setting system-font-setting font-render-setting cairo move-toolbar gtk x-toolkit xinput2 x multi-tty make-network-process native-compile emacs) Memory information: ((conses 16 236774 13267) (symbols 48 10472 0) (strings 32 29017 1828) (string-bytes 1 931634) (vectors 16 22627) (vector-slots 8 718681 79929) (floats 8 42 131) (intervals 56 23110 0) (buffers 984 15))