Re: tramp (2.0.38); Error in connection with ftp

[Michael Albinus]

David Kastrup <address@hidden> writes:

> After pressing C-x C-f /address@hidden:/tex- <TAB>, I first got a
> message
>
> Error: Symbol's function definition is void: cl-byte-compile-compiler-macro
>
> in *Compile-Log* popped up, but then completion progressed nicely to

Hmm. I couldn't reproduce this ...

> tex-archive/ .  Another <TAB>, and I got the following backtrace:
>
> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument hash-table-p nil)
>   gethash("tex" nil)
>   byte-code("ÂÃ!‰ʃł)ÆÇ!!\"‰;…  )‡" [file file-ent 
> gethash file-name-nondirectory "" "." ange-ftp-get-files file-name-directory] 
> 6)
>   ange-ftp-file-symlink-p("/address@hidden:/tex-archive/pub/tex")
>   apply(ange-ftp-file-symlink-p "/address@hidden:/tex-archive/pub/tex")
>   ange-ftp-hook-function(file-symlink-p 
> "/address@hidden:/tex-archive/pub/tex")
>   apply(ange-ftp-hook-function file-symlink-p 
> "/address@hidden:/tex-archive/pub/tex")
>   tramp-ftp-file-name-handler(file-symlink-p 
> "/address@hidden:/tex-archive/pub/tex")
>   apply(tramp-ftp-file-name-handler file-symlink-p 
> "/address@hidden:/tex-archive/pub/tex")
>   tramp-file-name-handler(file-symlink-p 
> "/address@hidden:/tex-archive/pub/tex")
>   file-symlink-p("/address@hidden:/tex-archive/pub/tex")

I've updated to both the recent CVS versions of Emacs and Tramp. Evaluating
(file-symlink-p "/address@hidden:/tex-archive/pub/tex") returns nil,
without an error.

Could you see whether it works for you as well? If not, I'ld like to
get a clean ange-ftp backtrace (w/o byte-code entries).

Best regards, Michael.