Since updating from master three days ago, I cannot access a remote directory via the sftp method. It was a bootstrap build, so I don't have the previous executables, but I think my last build from master in which sftp access succeeded was within the last two or three weeks. There is no Tramp debug output despite setting tramp-verbose to 8, but when I start Emacs with --debug-init, I get the attached backtrace, which indicates the problem seems to be due to not having Avahi installed. But with emacs-27 there is no problem with sftp access, although the Tramp debug output shows a D-bus error due to Avahi missing:
;; Emacs: 27.0.60 Tramp: 2.4.3.27.1 -*- mode: outline; -*- 11:15:45.108247 tramp-file-name-handler (1) # D-Bus error: "D-Bus error", "The name org.freedesktop.Avahi was not provided by any .service files" 11:15:45.108768 tramp-file-name-handler (1) # D-Bus error: "D-Bus error", "The name org.freedesktop.Avahi was not provided by any .service files" 11:15:45.114011 tramp-get-connection-property (7) # case-insensitive undef 11:15:45.135938 tramp-get-file-property (8) # /b/bermasbp/ file-truename undef 11:15:45.139727 tramp-get-file-property (8) # /b/ directory-attributes undef 11:15:45.139796 tramp-gvfs-get-directory-attributes (5) # directory gvfs attributes: /b/ 11:15:45.161117 tramp-call-process (6) # ‘locale -a’ nil *temp* 11:15:45.161812 tramp-call-process (6) # 0 A possibly related datapoint: I enable recentf-mode on starting Emacs, and the ~/.emacs.d/recentf file includes remote files accessed via sftp. In current master *Messages* shows this: Loading /home/steve/.emacs.d/recentf...done Waiting for git... [2 times] Error setting recentf-mode: (wrong-type-argument number-or-marker-p nil) But in emacs-27 there is no such error. Steve Berman
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