[OS X Emacs] tramp on Aquamacs: "Couldn't find exit status of `test -e /var'"

Dave Roe roex0050 at umn.edu
Sun Sep 21 19:30:25 EDT 2008


I've been successfully using tramp on Aquamacs 1.4 to ssh into a certain
machine for a long time.  Recently, it has stopped working.  I can't think
of any changes that may have caused this.  The same thing happens with my
configuration/customizations or without.  Also, I can successfully ssh into
the machine from a terminal.

The command "/ssh:user at host#22:tmp/tmp.sql" fails with the error message
"Couldn't find exit status of `test -e /var'" (if I use a full path to my
home directory, '/home' replaces '/var' in the error message).  Here is the
full backtrace from the debugger (with user and host changed):


Debugger entered--Lisp error: (file-error "Couldn't find exit status of `test -e /var'")
  signal(file-error ("Couldn't find exit status of `test -e /var'"))
  tramp-send-command-and-check(["ssh" "user" "host#22" "/var"] "test -e /var")
  tramp-handle-file-exists-p("/ssh:user at host#22:/var")
  apply(tramp-handle-file-exists-p "/ssh:user at host#22:/var")
  tramp-sh-file-name-handler(file-exists-p "/ssh:user at host#22:/var")
  apply(tramp-sh-file-name-handler file-exists-p "/ssh:user at host#22:/var")
  tramp-file-name-handler(file-exists-p "/ssh:user at host#22:/var")
  file-exists-p("/ssh:user at host#22:/var")
  tramp-handle-file-attributes("/ssh:user at host#22:/var")
  apply(tramp-handle-file-attributes "/ssh:user at host#22:/var")
  tramp-sh-file-name-handler(file-attributes "/ssh:user at host#22:/var")
  apply(tramp-sh-file-name-handler file-attributes "/ssh:user at host#22:/var")
  tramp-file-name-handler(file-attributes "/ssh:user at host#22:/var")
  file-attributes("/ssh:user at host#22:/var")
  tramp-handle-file-truename("/ssh:user at host#22:/var/folders/4J/4JgaCHTNGkeD9cPrbHUywU+++TI/-Tmp-/~: does not
exist/tmp/tmp.sql")
  apply(tramp-handle-file-truename "/ssh:user at host#22:/var/folders/4J/4JgaCHTNGkeD9cPrbHUywU+++TI/-Tmp-/~: does not
exist/tmp/tmp.sql")
  tramp-sh-file-name-handler(file-truename "/ssh:user at host#22:/var/folders/4J/4JgaCHTNGkeD9cPrbHUywU+++TI/-Tmp-/~: does
not exist/tmp/tmp.sql")
  apply(tramp-sh-file-name-handler file-truename "/ssh:user at host#22:/var/folders/4J/4JgaCHTNGkeD9cPrbHUywU+++TI/-Tmp-/~:
does not exist/tmp/tmp.sql")
  tramp-file-name-handler(file-truename "/ssh:user at host#22:/var/folders/4J/4JgaCHTNGkeD9cPrbHUywU+++TI/-Tmp-/~: does not
exist/tmp/tmp.sql")
  file-truename("/ssh:user at host#22:/var/folders/4J/4JgaCHTNGkeD9cPrbHUywU+++TI/-Tmp-/~: does not exist/tmp/tmp.sql")
  find-file-noselect("/ssh:user at host#22:tmp/tmp.sql" nil nil t)
  find-file("/ssh:user at host#22:tmp/tmp.sql" t)
  call-interactively(find-file)
  (if (or (not one-buffer-one-frame) tabbar-mode (< ... 2)) (call-interactively (quote find-file)) (let (...)
(new-frame-with-new-scratch nil)) (let (...) (unwind-protect ... ...)))
  aquamacs-find-file()
  call-interactively(aquamacs-find-file)


Any suggestions?
-- 
Dave Roe		roex0050 at umn.edu




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