Plink plunked

[Frederick Bartlett]

Michael,

I’m no longer able to access files on a remote Unix server using plink from Windows. It was working last week … and has been for a couple of years.

The basic error was a timeout:

tramp-error: Timeout reached, see buffer ‘*tramp/plink fbartlet@xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx*’ for details

I was unable to access the named buffer, but the backtrace follows.

My sysop tells me that nothing’s changed on the server, fwiw.

Thanks!

Fred

*Backtrace*

Debugger entered--Lisp error: (file-error "Timeout reached, see buffer ‘*tramp/plink fbartlet...")
  signal(file-error ("Timeout reached, see buffer ‘*tramp/plink fbartlet..."))
  tramp-error(nil file-error "Timeout reached, see buffer ‘*tramp/plink fbartlet...")
  tramp-signal-hook-function(file-error ("Timeout reached, see buffer ‘*tramp/plink fbartlet..."))
  signal(file-error ("Timeout reached, see buffer ‘*tramp/plink fbartlet..."))
  tramp-maybe-open-connection((tramp-file-name "plink" "fbartlet" nil "xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx" nil "/u/fbartlet/SoM2025/nov30.sh" nil))
  tramp-send-command((tramp-file-name "plink" "fbartlet" nil "xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx" nil "/u/fbartlet/SoM2025/nov30.sh" nil) "test 0 2>/dev/null; echo tramp_exit_status $?")
  tramp-send-command-and-check((tramp-file-name "plink" "fbartlet" nil "xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx" nil "/u/fbartlet/SoM2025/nov30.sh" nil) "test 0")
  tramp-get-test-command((tramp-file-name "plink" "fbartlet" nil "xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx" nil "/u/fbartlet/SoM2025/nov30.sh" nil))
  tramp-run-test("-d" "/plink:fbartlet@xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:/u/fbartlet/SoM2025/...")
  tramp-sh-handle-file-directory-p("/plink:fbartlet@xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:/u/fbartlet/SoM2025/...")
  apply(tramp-sh-handle-file-directory-p "/plink:fbartlet@xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:/u/fbartlet/SoM2025/...")
  tramp-sh-file-name-handler(file-directory-p "/plink:fbartlet@xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:/u/fbartlet/SoM2025/...")
  apply(tramp-sh-file-name-handler file-directory-p "/plink:fbartlet@xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:/u/fbartlet/SoM2025/...")
  tramp-file-name-handler(file-directory-p "/plink:fbartlet@xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:/u/fbartlet/SoM2025/...")
  file-directory-p("/plink:fbartlet@xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:/u/fbartlet/SoM2025/...")
  find-file-noselect("/plink:fbartlet@xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:/u/fbartlet/SoM2025/..." nil nil t)
  find-file("/plink:fbartlet@xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:/u/fbartlet/SoM2025/..." t)
  funcall-interactively(find-file "/plink:fbartlet@xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:/u/fbartlet/SoM2025/..." t)
  repeat-complex-command(1)
  funcall-interactively(repeat-complex-command 1)
  command-execute(repeat-complex-command)