Re: Tramp and BusyBox problem?

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

Mats Löfdahl <mats_lofdahl@yahoo.se> writes:

> Michael Albinus wrote:
>> Mats Löfdahl <mats_lofdahl@yahoo.se> writes:
>>
>>>> tramp: Testing remote command `/bin/ls' for -n...okay
>>>> tramp: Using remote command `/bin/ls' for getting directory listings
>>>> tramp: Sending the Perl script `tramp_file_attributes'...done.
>>>> tramp-handle-file-attributes: Wrong type argument: listp, if
>>
>> Could you, please, show the backtrace?
>>
>>> Might be easier if I remember to give some information about my environment:
>>>
>>> emacs-version:
>>> GNU Emacs 22.3.1 (x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.14.7) of
>>> 2009-02-09 on x86-1.fedora.phx.redhat.com
>>>
>>> tramp-version:
>>> 2.0.58-pre
>>
>> Tramp 2.0 hasn't seen so many corrections last time. Would it be an
>> option for you to switch to Tramp 2.1?
>
> OK, I installed Tramp 2.1.9. Same problem! I tried to mouse-copy a
> backtrace into this message but failed, there's some byte code in
> there that apparently wasn't liked much by the mouse...
>
> I saved it to a file instead:
> http://www.solarphysics.kva.se/~mats/backtrace.txt

You have problems with an echoing shell, which is known for
Busybox. There are some Tramp patches wrt this, even after release of
2.1.9. Why did you choose this? Tramp 2.1.15 is the recent version.

> Thanks for responding!
>
> /Mats

Best regards, Michael.