On Fri, Feb 02, 2018 at 11:03:15PM +0100, Michael Albinus wrote:
> My crystal ball tells me, that your temporary-file-directory is located
> on a symlinked directory.
>
> Does the following patch cures it?

Yes, thank you, that fixes one. Here is a bit more information on the
other:

F files-tests-file-name-non-special-directory-files-and-attributes
    (ert-test-failed
     ((should
       (equal
        (directory-files-and-attributes nospecial-dir)
        (directory-files-and-attributes tmpdir)))
      :form
      (equal
       (("." t 2 501 20
         (23156 60751 10790 323000)
         (23156 60751 10688 536000)
         (23156 60751 10688 536000)
         64 "drwx------" ...)
        (".." t 187 501 20
         (23156 60750 989630 970000)
         (23156 60751 10697 474000)
         (23156 60751 10697 474000)
         5984 "drwx------" ...))
       (("." t 2 501 20
         (23156 60751 10850 531000)
         (23156 60751 10688 536000)
         (23156 60751 10688 536000)
         64 "drwx------" ...)
        (".." t 187 501 20
         (23156 60750 989630 970000)
         (23156 60751 10697 474000)
         (23156 60751 10697 474000)
         5984 "drwx------" ...)))
      :value nil :explanation
      (list-elt 0
                (list-elt 5
                          (list-elt 2
                                    (different-atoms ... ...))))))

I don’t have the first clue what it means...