Re: tramp (2.1.0); scp method stopped working

[Ted Stern]

On 18 May 2004 at 10:08 PDT, Ted Stern wrote:
> On 17 May 2004 at 15:18 PDT, Ted Stern wrote:
>> I updated my anonCVS tramp checkout last friday, and a simple scp method edit
>> no longer works.  I updated again today, still no change.
>>
>> The problem may be the new handling for ':' in filenames when called through
>> gnuserv.  I'm using the gnuserv-compat package with Emacs 21.3.
>
> Further debugging -- the error is in tramp.el.
>
> I'm attaching the diffs between the working and non-working versions.
>
> I tried changing the regexp for file matching (the first difference) back to
> the earlier version, but that did not fix the bug.  So one of the other diffs
> is the problem.
>
> I hope that helps localize things a bit ... to reproduce, try using the scp
> method to edit a shell script on a remote host with bash as the remote login
> shell.  Directory listings on the remote host work fine, the problem is
> actually loading the file.
>
> Ted

Even more specifically -- the problem is the change between tramp versions
2.360 and 2.361.  

,----
| revision 2.361
| date: 2004/05/13 20:31:23;  author: albinus;  state: Exp;  lines: +12 -0
| 
| * lisp/tramp.el (tramp-process-one-action)
| (tramp-process-one-multi-action, tramp-wait-for-regexp)
| (tramp-wait-for-output): Throw away if process has died. Reported
| by Luc Teirlinck <address@hidden>.
`----

Michael, it looks like the tramp-wait-for-output function is overly sensitive.

Ted
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Index: tramp.el
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/tramp/tramp/lisp/tramp.el,v
retrieving revision 2.360
retrieving revision 2.361
diff -r2.360 -r2.361
5028a5029,5030
>       (unless (memq (process-status p) '(run open))
>         (throw 'tramp-action 'process-died))
5065a5068,5069
>       (unless (memq (process-status p) '(run open))
>         (throw 'tramp-action 'process-died))
5469a5474,5475
>                (unless (memq (process-status proc) '(run open))
>                  (error "Process has died"))
5475a5482,5483
>            (unless (memq (process-status proc) '(run open))
>              (error "Process has died"))
6083a6092,6093
>                  (unless (memq (process-status proc) '(run open))
>                    (error "Process has died"))
6089a6100,6101
>              (unless (memq (process-status proc) '(run open))
>                (error "Process has died"))