tramp ($Id: tramp.el,v 1.393 2000/06/06 12:58:27 grossjoh Exp $); Error message: Signaling: (wrong-type-argument listp perl:)

2000-08-02 Thread Alexander Schindler
Hi, unfortunately I think this is probably not a bug, but a configuration problem. Anyway, Local Machine: GNU Emacs 20.6.1 (alphaev6-dec-osf4.0e, X toolkit) Remote Machine: GNU Emacs 20.3.1 (i636-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit) (Redhat 6.1) On both machines, I added to .emacs (add-to-list 'load-path

Re: tramp ($Id: tramp.el,v 1.393 2000/06/06 12:58:27 grossjoh Exp $); Error message: Signaling: (wrong-type-argument listp perl:)

2000-08-02 Thread Daniel Pittman
On Wed, 2 Aug 2000, Alexander Schindler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, unfortunately I think this is probably not a bug, but a configuration problem. Anyway, What version of perl have you on the remote machine, and can you put the content of the tramp buffer in mail? Daniel --

Re: tramp ($Id: tramp.el,v 1.393 2000/06/06 12:58:27 grossjoh Exp $); Error message: Signaling: (wrong-type-argument listp perl:)

2000-08-02 Thread Alexander Schindler
Hi (postedmailed) Daniel Pittman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, 2 Aug 2000, Alexander Schindler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, unfortunately I think this is probably not a bug, but a configuration problem. Anyway, What version of perl have you on the remote machine, and can you put

Re: tramp ($Id: tramp.el,v 1.393 2000/06/06 12:58:27 grossjoh Exp $); Error message: Signaling: (wrong-type-argument listp perl:)

2000-08-02 Thread Kai Großjohann
Could you (setq tramp-debug-buffer t), repeat the error, and post the contents of the *tramp/scp foo* and *debug tramp/scp foo* buffers? I think that Tramp is trying to run Perl, but the command barfs for some reason. I'd like to see the error message emitted by Perl. Thanks, kai -- I like

Re: tramp ($Id: tramp.el,v 1.393 2000/06/06 12:58:27 grossjoh Exp $); Error message: Signaling: (wrong-type-argument listp perl:)

2000-08-02 Thread Alexander Schindler
(PostedMailed!) Hi Kai and all the others out there: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kai Großjohann) writes: On 02 Aug 2000, Alexander Schindler wrote: Indeed, Perl gives an error message which seems to cause tramp to die, even though the message (in my opinion) isn't a fatal one for perl: Yes.

Re: telnet method to NeXT

2000-08-02 Thread Daniel Pittman
On Wed, 2 Aug 2000, Kai Großjohann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 31 Jul 2000, Daniel Pittman wrote: Er. Not quite. If you don't have an ls that supports '-n' for numeric UID/GID values, and you don't have a usable perl5 on the remote machine, things may go very wrong with 'file-attributes'.

Re: tramp ($Id: tramp.el,v 1.393 2000/06/06 12:58:27 grossjoh Exp $); Error message: Signaling: (wrong-type-argument listp perl:)

2000-08-02 Thread Daniel Pittman
On Wed, 2 Aug 2000, Kai Großjohann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 02 Aug 2000, Alexander Schindler wrote: Indeed, Perl gives an error message which seems to cause tramp to die, even though the message (in my opinion) isn't a fatal one for perl: [...] (I just found out that there are two

Re: tramp ($Id: tramp.el,v 1.393 2000/06/06 12:58:27 grossjoh Exp $); Error message: Signaling: (wrong-type-argument listp perl:)

2000-08-02 Thread Alexander Schindler
(Posted and Mailed!) Hello Kai, Thanks for your help. Unfortunately, this is going to be an awful long mail... [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kai Großjohann) writes: Could you (setq tramp-debug-buffer t), repeat the error, and post the contents of the *tramp/scp foo* and *debug tramp/scp foo* buffers?

Re: tramp ($Id: tramp.el,v 1.393 2000/06/06 12:58:27 grossjoh Exp $); Error message: Signaling: (wrong-type-argument listp perl:)

2000-08-02 Thread Kai Großjohann
On 02 Aug 2000, Alexander Schindler wrote: Indeed, Perl gives an error message which seems to cause tramp to die, even though the message (in my opinion) isn't a fatal one for perl: Yes. Have a look at tramp.el and search for tramp_file_attributes. This is a shell function which invokes

Re: telnet method to NeXT

2000-08-02 Thread Kai Großjohann
On 31 Jul 2000, Daniel Pittman wrote: Er. Not quite. If you don't have an ls that supports '-n' for numeric UID/GID values, and you don't have a usable perl5 on the remote machine, things may go very wrong with 'file-attributes'. I think Tramp just uses -1 as uid and gid. Since ange-ftp

Re: tramp ($Id: tramp.el,v 1.393 2000/06/06 12:58:27 grossjoh Exp $); Error message: Signaling: (wrong-type-argument listp perl:)

2000-08-02 Thread Kai Großjohann
Oh, btw. I didn't say anything about your second try, with the corrected locale, because I couldn't see why it was going wrong. The *debug tramp/foo* buffer looked okay to me. I'm kinda hoping that the problem will just go away once we get this error message thing right. Probably a stupid