Mats Löfdahl <mats_lofdahl@yahoo.se> writes:

[I fear my answer from yesterday has been lost. Reposted, therefore.]

> It was different this time. When I connected as mats (bash), I first
> got the same uname error message as for root (BusyBox). But I knew
> that it _had_ worked, so I tried again and got the ugly dired buffer.
>
> So I did the same experiment with root in a fresh instance of
> emacs. This generated the uname error but did _not_ work at the second
> attempt.
>
> The debug buffers from the two sessions are here:
>
> http://www.solarphysics.kva.se/~mats/debug1.txt - root/BusyBox
> http://www.solarphysics.kva.se/~mats/debug2.txt - mats/bash

Looks like there is a race condition. Could you, please, check the
appended patch?

Best regards, Michael.