Neal> I had been using the previous version of tramp OK with Neal> Value: "21.1 (patch 14) \"Cuyahoga Valley\" XEmacs Lucid" Neal> Since the last update I get an error with this: Neal> &quot;/[sudm/root(a)localhost]/etc/amanda/adg/amanda.conf&quot; Neal> Every time I edit the file and try to save with C-xC-s, I get: Neal> Wrong type argument: number-char-or-marker-p, nil Hi Neal, please perform XEmacs <= 21.1 Options->General Options->Debug On Error XEmacs >= 21.4 Options->Troubleshooting->Debug On Error provoke the error again and send us the backtrace, preferrably as follows: If necessary/possible, please install the latest net-utils package (>= 1.23) and then use Help->Send Bug Report... or M-x report-emacs-bug as suggested in http://www.xemacs.org/Debug/index.html This will tell us enough about your XEmacs installation so that we can help you. Thanks in advance, Adrian Neal> tramp: True name of `/[sudm/root(a)localhost]/etc/amanda/adg/amanda.conf&#39; is `/etc/amanda/adg/amanda.conf' Neal> tramp: Check /etc/amanda/adg/amanda.conf Neal> tramp: Check /etc/amanda/adg Neal> tramp: Check /etc/amanda Neal> tramp: Check /etc Neal> Then I try with C-x C-w and there is no error. -- Adrian Aichner mailto:adrian＠xemacs.org http://www.xemacs.org/

Hi Neal, could you please send another after M-x load-file RET .../time-date.el RET (instead of time-date.elc). Best regards, Adrian Neal> Signaling: (wrong-type-argument number-char-or-marker-p nil) Neal> #<compiled-function (t1 t2) "...(52)" [borrow t2 t1 1 0 65536] 3 ("/usr/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/lisp/gnus/time-date.elc" . 1979)>(nil (15472 63941)) Neal> tramp-time-diff(nil (15472 63941)) Neal> tramp-handle-verify-visited-file-modtime(#<buffer "amanda.conf<2>">) Neal> apply(tramp-handle-verify-visited-file-modtime #<buffer "amanda.conf<2>">) Neal> tramp-file-name-handler(verify-visited-file-modtime #<buffer "amanda.conf<2>">) Neal> verify-visited-file-modtime(#<buffer "amanda.conf<2>">) Neal> apply(verify-visited-file-modtime #<buffer "amanda.conf<2>">) Neal> dired-handler-fn(verify-visited-file-modtime #<buffer "amanda.conf<2>">) Neal> write-region-internal(1 17733 "/tmp/nbecker/tramp.KYEq3c" nil no-message &quot;/[sudm/root(a)localhost]/etc/amanda/adg/amanda.conf&quot; #<coding_system iso-2022-8-unix>) Neal> write-region(1 17733 "/tmp/nbecker/tramp.KYEq3c" nil no-message &quot;/[sudm/root(a)localhost]/etc/amanda/adg/amanda.conf&quot; #<coding_system iso-2022-8-unix>) Neal> apply(write-region (1 17733 "/tmp/nbecker/tramp.KYEq3c" nil no-message &quot;/[sudm/root(a)localhost]/etc/amanda/adg/amanda.conf&quot; #<coding_system iso-2022-8-unix>)) Neal> dired-handler-fn(write-region 1 17733 "/tmp/nbecker/tramp.KYEq3c" nil no-message &quot;/[sudm/root(a)localhost]/etc/amanda/adg/amanda.conf&quot; #<coding_system iso-2022-8-unix>) Neal> write-region-internal(1 17733 "/tmp/nbecker/tramp.KYEq3c" nil no-message &quot;/[sudm/root(a)localhost]/etc/amanda/adg/amanda.conf&quot; #<coding_system iso-2022-8-unix>) Neal> write-region(1 17733 "/tmp/nbecker/tramp.KYEq3c" nil no-message &quot;/[sudm/root(a)localhost]/etc/amanda/adg/amanda.conf&quot; #<coding_system iso-2022-8-unix>) Neal> apply(write-region (1 17733 "/tmp/nbecker/tramp.KYEq3c" nil no-message &quot;/[sudm/root(a)localhost]/etc/amanda/adg/amanda.conf&quot; #<coding_system iso-2022-8-unix>)) Neal> tramp-run-real-handler(write-region (1 17733 "/tmp/nbecker/tramp.KYEq3c" nil no-message &quot;/[sudm/root(a)localhost]/etc/amanda/adg/amanda.conf&quot; #<coding_system iso-2022-8-unix>)) Neal> tramp-handle-write-region(1 17733 &quot;/[sudm/root(a)localhost]/etc/amanda/adg/amanda.conf&quot; nil t &quot;/[sudm/root(a)localhost]/etc/amanda/adg/amanda.conf&quot; #<coding_system iso-2022-8-unix>) Neal> apply(tramp-handle-write-region (1 17733 &quot;/[sudm/root(a)localhost]/etc/amanda/adg/amanda.conf&quot; nil t &quot;/[sudm/root(a)localhost]/etc/amanda/adg/amanda.conf&quot; #<coding_system iso-2022-8-unix>)) Neal> tramp-file-name-handler(write-region 1 17733 &quot;/[sudm/root(a)localhost]/etc/amanda/adg/amanda.conf&quot; nil t &quot;/[sudm/root(a)localhost]/etc/amanda/adg/amanda.conf&quot; #<coding_system iso-2022-8-unix>) Neal> write-region-internal(1 17733 &quot;/[sudm/root(a)localhost]/etc/amanda/adg/amanda.conf&quot; nil t &quot;/[sudm/root(a)localhost]/etc/amanda/adg/amanda.conf&quot; #<coding_system iso-2022-8-unix>) Neal> write-region(1 17733 &quot;/[sudm/root(a)localhost]/etc/amanda/adg/amanda.conf&quot; nil t &quot;/[sudm/root(a)localhost]/etc/amanda/adg/amanda.conf&quot; #<coding_system iso-2022-8-unix>) Neal> apply(write-region (1 17733 &quot;/[sudm/root(a)localhost]/etc/amanda/adg/amanda.conf&quot; nil t &quot;/[sudm/root(a)localhost]/etc/amanda/adg/amanda.conf&quot; #<coding_system iso-2022-8-unix>)) Neal> dired-handler-fn(write-region 1 17733 &quot;/[sudm/root(a)localhost]/etc/amanda/adg/amanda.conf&quot; nil t &quot;/[sudm/root(a)localhost]/etc/amanda/adg/amanda.conf&quot; #<coding_system iso-2022-8-unix>) Neal> write-region-internal(1 17733 &quot;/[sudm/root(a)localhost]/etc/amanda/adg/amanda.conf&quot; nil t &quot;/[sudm/root(a)localhost]/etc/amanda/adg/amanda.conf&quot; #<coding_system iso-2022-8-unix>) Neal> write-region(1 17733 &quot;/[sudm/root(a)localhost]/etc/amanda/adg/amanda.conf&quot; nil t &quot;/[sudm/root(a)localhost]/etc/amanda/adg/amanda.conf&quot;) Neal> basic-write-file-data(&quot;/[sudm/root(a)localhost]/etc/amanda/adg/amanda.conf&quot; &quot;/[sudm/root(a)localhost]/etc/amanda/adg/amanda.conf&quot;) Neal> basic-save-buffer-1() Neal> basic-save-buffer() Neal> save-buffer(1) Neal> call-interactively(save-buffer) -- Adrian Aichner mailto:adrian＠xemacs.org http://www.xemacs.org/

nbecker(a)fred.net (Neal D. Becker) writes: I recently made a change to verify-visited-file-modtime; maybe that change fixes this problem. Could you please try out the current release from sf.net/projects/tramp? I'm not very familiar with the XEmacs packaging process (even though I happen to be the maintainer for the Tramp package -- go figure), so I don't know when the new version will appear as an XEmacs package. kai -- ~/.signature is: umop 3p!sdn (Frank Nobis)

|--==> "KG" == Kai Großjohann <Kai.Grossjohann(a)CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE&gt; writes: KG> There are tarballs on SourceForge (http://sf.net/projects/tramp), but KG> these are not XEmacs packages. Not sure when the changes will show KG> up as an XEmacs package. A couple of days. I'm getting tied up with some personal things at the moment. -- |---<Steve Youngs>---------------<GnuPG KeyID: 10D5C9C5>---| | XEmacs - It's not just an editor. | | It's a way of life. | |------------------------------------&lt;youngs(a)xemacs.org&gt;---|