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27.0.50; (wrong-type-argument stringp (require . elec-pair)) with describe-function (and other commands)

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From: Tassilo Horn <tsdh <at> gnu.org>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 27.0.50; (wrong-type-argument stringp (require . elec-pair)) with
 describe-function (and other commands)
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2019 08:42:20 +0100

With the current master:

emacs -Q

M-x toggle-debug-on-error
C-h f package-reinstall

You get this backtrace:

Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument stringp (require . elec-pair))
  string-match("\\(\\`\\|/\\)package-x\\(\\.elc\\|\\.el\\|\\.so\\)?\\(\\.gz\\)?\\..." (require . elec-pair) nil)
  help--loaded-p("package-x")
  help--load-prefixes((("package-" "package-x" "package")))
  help--symbol-completion-table("package-reinstall" #f(compiled-function (f) #<bytecode 0x15794c0c23e9>) lambda)
  test-completion("package-reinstall" help--symbol-completion-table #f(compiled-function (f) #<bytecode 0x15794c0c23e9>))
  completion--complete-and-exit(20 37 exit-minibuffer #f(compiled-function () #<bytecode 0x15794c022699>))
  completion-complete-and-exit(20 37 exit-minibuffer)
  minibuffer-complete-and-exit()
  funcall-interactively(minibuffer-complete-and-exit)
  call-interactively(minibuffer-complete-and-exit nil nil)
  command-execute(minibuffer-complete-and-exit)
  read-from-minibuffer("Describe function: " nil (keymap (10 . minibuffer-complete-and-exit) (13 . minibuffer-complete-and-exit) keymap (menu-bar keymap (minibuf "Minibuf" keymap (tab menu-item "Complete" minibuffer-complete :help "Complete as far as possible") (space menu-item "Complete Word" minibuffer-complete-word :help "Complete at most one word") (63 menu-item "List Completions" minibuffer-completion-help :help "Display all possible completions") "Minibuf")) (27 keymap (118 . switch-to-completions)) (prior . switch-to-completions) (63 . minibuffer-completion-help) (32 . minibuffer-complete-word) (9 . minibuffer-complete) keymap (menu-bar keymap (minibuf "Minibuf" keymap (previous menu-item "Previous History Item" previous-history-element :help "Put previous minibuffer history element in the min...") (next menu-item "Next History Item" next-history-element :help "Put next minibuffer history element in the minibuf...") (isearch-backward menu-item "Isearch History Backward" isearch-backward :help "Incrementally search minibuffer history backward") (isearch-forward menu-item "Isearch History Forward" isearch-forward :help "Incrementally search minibuffer history forward") (return menu-item "Enter" exit-minibuffer :key-sequence "\15" :help "Terminate input and exit minibuffer") (quit menu-item "Quit" abort-recursive-edit :help "Abort input and exit minibuffer") "Minibuf")) (10 . exit-minibuffer) (13 . exit-minibuffer) (7 . abort-recursive-edit) (C-tab . file-cache-minibuffer-complete) (9 . self-insert-command) (XF86Back . previous-history-element) (up . previous-line-or-history-element) (prior . previous-history-element) (XF86Forward . next-history-element) (down . next-line-or-history-element) (next . next-history-element) (27 keymap (114 . previous-matching-history-element) (115 . next-matching-history-element) (112 . previous-history-element) (110 . next-history-element))) nil nil nil nil)
  completing-read-default("Describe function: " help--symbol-completion-table #f(compiled-function (f) #<bytecode 0x15794c0c23e9>) t nil nil nil nil)
  completing-read("Describe function: " help--symbol-completion-table #f(compiled-function (f) #<bytecode 0x15794c0c23e9>) t nil nil nil)
  byte-code("\301 \302\30\303\1\203\20\0\304\305\3\"\202\21\0\306\307\310\302\311\211\6\7\205\37\0\312\6\10!&\7\211\313\232\204,\0\314\1!\262\2\1\2035\0\19..." [enable-recursive-minibuffers function-called-at-point t completing-read format "Describe function (default %s): " "Describe function: " help--symbol-completion-table #f(compiled-function (f) #<bytecode 0x15794c0c23e9>) nil symbol-name "" intern user-error "You didn't specify a function symbol" fboundp function-documentation "Symbol's function definition is void: %s"] 10)
  call-interactively(describe-function nil nil)
  command-execute(describe-function)

With my normal configured emacs, I get the same error for (require
. finder-inf) at different places.

I update my master checkout almost daily.  With the version from
yesterday (around 2019-01-15 07:00 CET) I didn't have these issues.


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Message #8 received at 34094 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: Tassilo Horn <tsdh <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 34094 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#34094: 27.0.50;
 (wrong-type-argument stringp (require . elec-pair)) with
 describe-function (and other commands)
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2019 05:36:24 -0500

Tassilo Horn wrote:

> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument stringp (require . elec-pair))

I think this was predicted years ago in https://debbugs.gnu.org/14120 .

Message #11 received at 34094 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Tassilo Horn <tsdh <at> gnu.org>
To: 34094 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#34094: 27.0.50;
 (wrong-type-argument stringp (require . elec-pair)) with
 describe-function (and other commands)
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2019 11:38:05 +0100

Tassilo Horn <tsdh <at> gnu.org> writes:

> With the current master:
>
> emacs -Q
>
> M-x toggle-debug-on-error
> C-h f package-reinstall
>
> You get this backtrace:
>
> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument stringp (require . elec-pair))

I found the problem: the new portable dumper needs emacs.pdmp in
`data-directory'.  Unfortunately, when you run without "make install",
data-directory is set to emacs/etc/ whereas the emacs.pdmp resides in
emacs/src/.

For the time being, I've created a symlink emacs/etc/emacs.pdmp ->
emacs/src/emacs.pdmp.

Bye,
Tassilo

Message #18 received at 34094 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Tassilo Horn <tsdh <at> gnu.org>
To: 34094 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#34094: 27.0.50;
 (wrong-type-argument stringp (require . elec-pair)) with
 describe-function (and other commands)
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2019 11:56:15 +0100

Tassilo Horn <tsdh <at> gnu.org> writes:

>> With the current master:
>>
>> emacs -Q
>>
>> M-x toggle-debug-on-error
>> C-h f package-reinstall
>>
>> You get this backtrace:
>>
>> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument stringp (require . elec-pair))
>
> I found the problem: the new portable dumper needs emacs.pdmp in
> `data-directory'.  Unfortunately, when you run without "make install",
> data-directory is set to emacs/etc/ whereas the emacs.pdmp resides in
> emacs/src/.

Ah, that's not entirely true.  It seems I have to start emacs from
within the directory where the emacs.pdmp file resides.

And then I'll get an

  Fatal error 11: Segmentation faultfish: “emacs” terminated by signal SIGSEGV (Address boundary error)

but that's another story.

Bye,
Tassilo

Message #21 received at 34094 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Robert Pluim <rpluim <at> gmail.com>
To: Tassilo Horn <tsdh <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 34094 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#34094: 27.0.50;
 (wrong-type-argument stringp (require . elec-pair)) with
 describe-function (and other commands)
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2019 12:14:09 +0100

Tassilo Horn <tsdh <at> gnu.org> writes:

> Tassilo Horn <tsdh <at> gnu.org> writes:
>
>> With the current master:
>>
>> emacs -Q
>>
>> M-x toggle-debug-on-error
>> C-h f package-reinstall
>>
>> You get this backtrace:
>>
>> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument stringp (require . elec-pair))
>
> I found the problem: the new portable dumper needs emacs.pdmp in
> `data-directory'.  Unfortunately, when you run without "make install",
> data-directory is set to emacs/etc/ whereas the emacs.pdmp resides in
> emacs/src/.
>

Thatʼs surprising: I haven't done 'make install', but I can't
reproduce your error.

Robert

Message #24 received at 34094 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Tassilo Horn <tsdh <at> gnu.org>
To: 34094 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#34094: 27.0.50;
 (wrong-type-argument stringp (require . elec-pair)) with
 describe-function (and other commands)
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2019 19:43:00 +0100

Tassilo Horn <tsdh <at> gnu.org> writes:

> It seems I have to start emacs from within the directory where the
> emacs.pdmp file resides.
>
> And then I'll get an
>
>   Fatal error 11: Segmentation faultfish: “emacs” terminated by signal SIGSEGV
> (Address boundary error)
>
> but that's another story.

Ok, I can reproduce the issue also at home with the current master
(8bf51c380acc04f25fba8f8aa3d1cc08b45f3e69).  When I start emacs not from
within emacs/src/, I get the original wrong-type-argument error as
described with my recipe.

One detail which might be important: I have symlinks to the emacs
executables in ~/bin/ which is on my PATH.

lrwxrwxrwx 1 horn horn   41 13. Nov 2014  ebrowse -> /home/horn/Repos/el/emacs/lib-src/ebrowse
lrwxrwxrwx 1 horn horn   35  1. Jan 2017  emacs -> /home/horn/Repos/el/emacs/src/emacs
lrwxrwxrwx 1 horn horn   45 13. Nov 2014  emacsclient -> /home/horn/Repos/el/emacs/lib-src/emacsclient
lrwxrwxrwx 1 horn horn   39 13. Nov 2014  etags -> /home/horn/Repos/el/emacs/lib-src/etags

So when I start emacs from anywhere but /home/horn/Repos/el/emacs/src/,
it'll print a lot of messages like:

Loading loadup.el (source)...
dump mode: nil
Using load-path (/usr/local/share/emacs/27.0.50/site-lisp /usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp /home/horn/Repos/el/emacs/lisp /home/horn/Repos/el/emacs/lisp/emacs-lisp /home/horn/Repos/el/emacs/lisp/progmodes /home/horn/Repos/el/emacs/lisp/language /home/horn/Repos/el/emacs/lisp/international /home/horn/Repos/el/emacs/lisp/textmodes /home/horn/Repos/el/emacs/lisp/vc)
Loading emacs-lisp/byte-run...
Loading emacs-lisp/byte-run...done
Loading emacs-lisp/backquote...
Loading emacs-lisp/backquote...done
...

When I start it from within /home/horn/Repos/el/emacs/src/ where the
emacs executable and emacs.pdmp exists, I get no such messages.  Then,
however, I get a segfault for example when I start gnus.  Here's the
xbacktrace from gdb:

>>= gdb emacs
GNU gdb (GDB) 8.2.1
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License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
Type "show copying" and "show warranty" for details.
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Type "show configuration" for configuration details.
For bug reporting instructions, please see:
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Find the GDB manual and other documentation resources online at:
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For help, type "help".
Type "apropos word" to search for commands related to "word"...
Reading symbols from emacs...done.
SIGINT is used by the debugger.
Are you sure you want to change it? (y or n) [answered Y; input not from terminal]
DISPLAY = :0
TERM = xterm-256color
Breakpoint 1 at 0x111cef: file emacs.c, line 370.
Temporary breakpoint 2 at 0x12a7f1: file sysdep.c, line 1095.
(gdb) run
Starting program: /home/horn/Repos/el/emacs/src/emacs 
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[Detaching after vfork from child process 25328]
[Detaching after vfork from child process 25329]
[Detaching after vfork from child process 25330]
[Detaching after vfork from child process 25331]
[Detaching after vfork from child process 25385]
[Detaching after vfork from child process 25386]
[Detaching after vfork from child process 25387]
[Detaching after vfork from child process 25388]
[Detaching after vfork from child process 25389]
[Detaching after vfork from child process 25390]
[Detaching after vfork from child process 25391]
[Detaching after vfork from child process 25392]
[Detaching after vfork from child process 25393]
[Detaching after vfork from child process 25401]
[Detaching after vfork from child process 25402]
[Detaching after vfork from child process 25403]
[Detaching after vfork from child process 25404]
[Detaching after vfork from child process 25405]
[Detaching after vfork from child process 25406]
[Detaching after vfork from child process 25407]
[Detaching after vfork from child process 25408]
[Detaching after vfork from child process 25409]
[Detaching after vfork from child process 25410]
[Detaching after vfork from child process 25411]
[Detaching after vfork from child process 25412]
[Detaching after vfork from child process 25420]
[Detaching after vfork from child process 25428]
[Detaching after vfork from child process 25429]
[Detaching after vfork from child process 25430]
[Detaching after vfork from child process 25431]
[Detaching after vfork from child process 25432]
[Detaching after vfork from child process 25433]
[Detaching after vfork from child process 25434]
[Detaching after vfork from child process 25435]
[Detaching after vfork from child process 25436]
[Detaching after vfork from child process 25437]
[Detaching after vfork from child process 25438]
[Detaching after vfork from child process 25439]
[Detaching after vfork from child process 25440]
[Detaching after vfork from child process 25441]
[Detaching after vfork from child process 25442]

Thread 1 "emacs" received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x000055bc33060af0 in ?? ()
(gdb) xbacktrace
"insert-file-contents" (0xffffaee8)
"eieio-persistent-read" (0xffffb178)
"gnus-registry-read" (0xffffb390)
"gnus-registry-load" (0xffffb5f0)
"gnus-registry-initialize" (0xffffb7c0)
"eval-buffer" (0xffffbab0)
"load-with-code-conversion" (0xffffbd78)
"load" (0xffffc020)
"gnus-read-init-file" (0xffffc290)
"gnus-1" (0xffffc518)
"gnus" (0xffffc820)
"funcall-interactively" (0xffffc818)
"call-interactively" (0xffffca70)
"command-execute" (0xffffcd28)
0x57ad99c0 PVEC_COMPILED
"ivy-call" (0xffffd2e8)
"ivy-read" (0xffffd870)
"counsel-M-x" (0xffffdd10)
"funcall-interactively" (0xffffdd08)
"call-interactively" (0xffffde50)
"command-execute" (0xffffe0f8)
(gdb) 

Bye,
Tassilo

Message #27 received at 34094 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Tassilo Horn <tsdh <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 34094 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#34094: 27.0.50;
 (wrong-type-argument stringp (require . elec-pair)) with
 describe-function (and other commands)
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2019 21:20:06 +0200

> From: Tassilo Horn <tsdh <at> gnu.org>
> Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2019 19:43:00 +0100
> 
> So when I start emacs from anywhere but /home/horn/Repos/el/emacs/src/,
> it'll print a lot of messages like:
> 
> Loading loadup.el (source)...
> dump mode: nil
> Using load-path (/usr/local/share/emacs/27.0.50/site-lisp /usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp /home/horn/Repos/el/emacs/lisp /home/horn/Repos/el/emacs/lisp/emacs-lisp /home/horn/Repos/el/emacs/lisp/progmodes /home/horn/Repos/el/emacs/lisp/language /home/horn/Repos/el/emacs/lisp/international /home/horn/Repos/el/emacs/lisp/textmodes /home/horn/Repos/el/emacs/lisp/vc)
> Loading emacs-lisp/byte-run...
> Loading emacs-lisp/byte-run...done
> Loading emacs-lisp/backquote...
> Loading emacs-lisp/backquote...done
> ...

This part is expected, and is not a bug.

> When I start it from within /home/horn/Repos/el/emacs/src/ where the
> emacs executable and emacs.pdmp exists, I get no such messages.  Then,
> however, I get a segfault for example when I start gnus.  Here's the
> xbacktrace from gdb:

This is bug, of course.

> (gdb) run
> Starting program: /home/horn/Repos/el/emacs/src/emacs 
> [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
> Using host libthread_db library "/usr/lib/libthread_db.so.1".
> [New Thread 0x7fffeea70700 (LWP 25211)]
> [Detaching after vfork from child process 25212]
> [New Thread 0x7fffee22d700 (LWP 25213)]
> [New Thread 0x7fffed2b2700 (LWP 25214)]
> [Detaching after vfork from child process 25215]
> [Detaching after vfork from child process 25216]
> [Detaching after vfork from child process 25217]
> [Detaching after vfork from child process 25218]
> [Detaching after vfork from child process 25219]

Any idea what are all those vforks about?  Is this something caused by
your init files?

Message #30 received at 34094 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: "Daniel Colascione" <dancol <at> dancol.org>
To: "Tassilo Horn" <tsdh <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 34094 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#34094: 27.0.50; (wrong-type-argument stringp (require .
 elec-pair)) with describe-function (and other commands)
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2019 11:40:00 -0800

> Tassilo Horn <tsdh <at> gnu.org> writes:
>
> Thread 1 "emacs" received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.

Try it now.

Message #33 received at 34094 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Tassilo Horn <tsdh <at> gnu.org>
To: "Daniel Colascione" <dancol <at> dancol.org>
Cc: 34094 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#34094: 27.0.50;
 (wrong-type-argument stringp (require . elec-pair)) with
 describe-function (and other commands)
Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2019 06:27:33 +0100

"Daniel Colascione" <dancol <at> dancol.org> writes:

>> Tassilo Horn <tsdh <at> gnu.org> writes:
>>
>> Thread 1 "emacs" received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
>
> Try it now.

I'm now on 978cf88bda9c9b41f1cc20cf8e53a9e6caeb91be, and the crash is
gone.  Thanks a lot!

Bye,
Tassilo

Message #36 received at 34094 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Tassilo Horn <tsdh <at> gnu.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 34094 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#34094: 27.0.50;
 (wrong-type-argument stringp (require . elec-pair)) with
 describe-function (and other commands)
Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2019 06:52:36 +0100

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

>> So when I start emacs from anywhere but /home/horn/Repos/el/emacs/src/,
>> it'll print a lot of messages like:
>> 
>> Loading loadup.el (source)...
>> dump mode: nil
>> Using load-path (/usr/local/share/emacs/27.0.50/site-lisp
>> /usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp /home/horn/Repos/el/emacs/lisp
>> /home/horn/Repos/el/emacs/lisp/emacs-lisp
>> /home/horn/Repos/el/emacs/lisp/progmodes
>> /home/horn/Repos/el/emacs/lisp/language
>> /home/horn/Repos/el/emacs/lisp/international
>> /home/horn/Repos/el/emacs/lisp/textmodes /home/horn/Repos/el/emacs/lisp/vc)
>> Loading emacs-lisp/byte-run...
>> Loading emacs-lisp/byte-run...done
>> Loading emacs-lisp/backquote...
>> Loading emacs-lisp/backquote...done
>> ...
>
> This part is expected, and is not a bug.

So with pdumper, I should always invoke ~/Repos/el/emacs/src/emacs
instead of the symlink in my PATH pointing to it?

When I start emacs using my symlink pointing to
~/Repos/el/emacs/src/emacs, I get the above output and the original
wrong-type-argument error according to my recipe.

>> When I start it from within /home/horn/Repos/el/emacs/src/ where the
>> emacs executable and emacs.pdmp exists, I get no such messages.
>> Then, however, I get a segfault for example when I start gnus.
>> Here's the xbacktrace from gdb:
>
> This is bug, of course.

Already fixed by Daniel.

>> (gdb) run
>> Starting program: /home/horn/Repos/el/emacs/src/emacs 
>> [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
>> Using host libthread_db library "/usr/lib/libthread_db.so.1".
>> [New Thread 0x7fffeea70700 (LWP 25211)]
>> [Detaching after vfork from child process 25212]
>> [New Thread 0x7fffee22d700 (LWP 25213)]
>> [New Thread 0x7fffed2b2700 (LWP 25214)]
>> [Detaching after vfork from child process 25215]
>> [Detaching after vfork from child process 25216]
>> [Detaching after vfork from child process 25217]
>> [Detaching after vfork from child process 25218]
>> [Detaching after vfork from child process 25219]
>
> Any idea what are all those vforks about?  Is this something caused by
> your init files?

I don't get them with run -Q, so I guess it's something in my init file.
When I try again, now I only get 21 vforks instead of the 132 I've had
before.

If I were keen to know what's the cause, how would I find out?

Bye,
Tassilo

Message #39 received at 34094 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Tassilo Horn <tsdh <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 34094 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#34094: 27.0.50;
 (wrong-type-argument stringp (require . elec-pair)) with
 describe-function (and other commands)
Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2019 15:40:22 +0200

> From: Tassilo Horn <tsdh <at> gnu.org>
> Cc: 34094 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2019 06:52:36 +0100
> 
> >> Using load-path (/usr/local/share/emacs/27.0.50/site-lisp
> >> /usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp /home/horn/Repos/el/emacs/lisp
> >> /home/horn/Repos/el/emacs/lisp/emacs-lisp
> >> /home/horn/Repos/el/emacs/lisp/progmodes
> >> /home/horn/Repos/el/emacs/lisp/language
> >> /home/horn/Repos/el/emacs/lisp/international
> >> /home/horn/Repos/el/emacs/lisp/textmodes /home/horn/Repos/el/emacs/lisp/vc)
> >> Loading emacs-lisp/byte-run...
> >> Loading emacs-lisp/byte-run...done
> >> Loading emacs-lisp/backquote...
> >> Loading emacs-lisp/backquote...done
> >> ...
> >
> > This part is expected, and is not a bug.
> 
> So with pdumper, I should always invoke ~/Repos/el/emacs/src/emacs
> instead of the symlink in my PATH pointing to it?

Currently, yes.  This is how the code was written.  Whether we want to
support the symlink case is an open question, worth discussing.

> When I start emacs using my symlink pointing to
> ~/Repos/el/emacs/src/emacs, I get the above output and the original
> wrong-type-argument error according to my recipe.

To be absolutely clear: the wrong-type-argument error is also a bug,
and should be investigated.  I hope Daniel will be able to look into
that.

> >> (gdb) run
> >> Starting program: /home/horn/Repos/el/emacs/src/emacs 
> >> [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
> >> Using host libthread_db library "/usr/lib/libthread_db.so.1".
> >> [New Thread 0x7fffeea70700 (LWP 25211)]
> >> [Detaching after vfork from child process 25212]
> >> [New Thread 0x7fffee22d700 (LWP 25213)]
> >> [New Thread 0x7fffed2b2700 (LWP 25214)]
> >> [Detaching after vfork from child process 25215]
> >> [Detaching after vfork from child process 25216]
> >> [Detaching after vfork from child process 25217]
> >> [Detaching after vfork from child process 25218]
> >> [Detaching after vfork from child process 25219]
> >
> > Any idea what are all those vforks about?  Is this something caused by
> > your init files?
> 
> I don't get them with run -Q, so I guess it's something in my init file.
> When I try again, now I only get 21 vforks instead of the 132 I've had
> before.
> 
> If I were keen to know what's the cause, how would I find out?

If your customizations cause a lot of processes to be launched at
startup, then the above is expected.  Otherwise, I'd suggest to look
for some code which might launch such processes which you didn't
intend.

Thanks.

Message #42 received at 34094 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Tassilo Horn <tsdh <at> gnu.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 34094 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#34094: 27.0.50;
 (wrong-type-argument stringp (require . elec-pair)) with
 describe-function (and other commands)
Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2019 17:46:06 +0100

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

>> >> Starting program: /home/horn/Repos/el/emacs/src/emacs 
>> >> [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
>> >> Using host libthread_db library "/usr/lib/libthread_db.so.1".
>> >> [New Thread 0x7fffeea70700 (LWP 25211)]
>> >> [Detaching after vfork from child process 25212]
>> >> [New Thread 0x7fffee22d700 (LWP 25213)]
>> >> [New Thread 0x7fffed2b2700 (LWP 25214)]
>> >> [Detaching after vfork from child process 25215]
>> >> [Detaching after vfork from child process 25216]
>> >> [Detaching after vfork from child process 25217]
>> >> [Detaching after vfork from child process 25218]
>> >> [Detaching after vfork from child process 25219]
>> >
>> > Any idea what are all those vforks about?  Is this something caused
>> > by your init files?
>> 
>> I don't get them with run -Q, so I guess it's something in my init
>> file.  When I try again, now I only get 21 vforks instead of the 132
>> I've had before.
>> 
>> If I were keen to know what's the cause, how would I find out?
>
> If your customizations cause a lot of processes to be launched at
> startup, then the above is expected.  Otherwise, I'd suggest to look
> for some code which might launch such processes which you didn't
> intend.

I temporarily added

  (advice-add 'call-process :before #'debug)
  (advice-add 'start-process :before #'debug)

to my ~/.emacs and restarted, and there are several packages which
invoke external commands at startup, e.g., Magit trying to figure out
the defaults I've set in my ~/.gitconfig.  So that seems to be expected.

Bye,
Tassilo

Message #45 received at 34094 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: "Daniel Colascione" <dancol <at> dancol.org>
To: "Tassilo Horn" <tsdh <at> gnu.org>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, 34094 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#34094: 27.0.50; (wrong-type-argument stringp (require .
 elec-pair)) with describe-function (and other commands)
Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2019 11:29:37 -0800

> Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:
>
>>> >> Starting program: /home/horn/Repos/el/emacs/src/emacs
>>> >> [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
>>> >> Using host libthread_db library "/usr/lib/libthread_db.so.1".
>>> >> [New Thread 0x7fffeea70700 (LWP 25211)]
>>> >> [Detaching after vfork from child process 25212]
>>> >> [New Thread 0x7fffee22d700 (LWP 25213)]
>>> >> [New Thread 0x7fffed2b2700 (LWP 25214)]
>>> >> [Detaching after vfork from child process 25215]
>>> >> [Detaching after vfork from child process 25216]
>>> >> [Detaching after vfork from child process 25217]
>>> >> [Detaching after vfork from child process 25218]
>>> >> [Detaching after vfork from child process 25219]
>>> >
>>> > Any idea what are all those vforks about?  Is this something caused
>>> > by your init files?
>>>
>>> I don't get them with run -Q, so I guess it's something in my init
>>> file.  When I try again, now I only get 21 vforks instead of the 132
>>> I've had before.
>>>
>>> If I were keen to know what's the cause, how would I find out?
>>
>> If your customizations cause a lot of processes to be launched at
>> startup, then the above is expected.  Otherwise, I'd suggest to look
>> for some code which might launch such processes which you didn't
>> intend.
>
> I temporarily added
>
>   (advice-add 'call-process :before #'debug)
>   (advice-add 'start-process :before #'debug)
>
> to my ~/.emacs and restarted, and there are several packages which
> invoke external commands at startup, e.g., Magit trying to figure out
> the defaults I've set in my ~/.gitconfig.  So that seems to be expected.

IMHO, every time a package does this, it's a bug. Launching programs is
way too expensive to do on every startup. Packages should be caching the
results of system introspection somehow.

Message #48 received at 34094 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Tassilo Horn <tsdh <at> gnu.org>
To: "Daniel Colascione" <dancol <at> dancol.org>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, 34094 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#34094: 27.0.50;
 (wrong-type-argument stringp (require . elec-pair)) with
 describe-function (and other commands)
Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2019 06:40:39 +0100

"Daniel Colascione" <dancol <at> dancol.org> writes:

>> I temporarily added
>>
>>   (advice-add 'call-process :before #'debug)
>>   (advice-add 'start-process :before #'debug)
>>
>> to my ~/.emacs and restarted, and there are several packages which
>> invoke external commands at startup, e.g., Magit trying to figure out
>> the defaults I've set in my ~/.gitconfig.  So that seems to be expected.
>
> IMHO, every time a package does this, it's a bug. Launching programs
> is way too expensive to do on every startup. Packages should be
> caching the results of system introspection somehow.

Well, it starts up in around 3 seconds and I have 60 packages installed
(including dependencies).  And of course, I start emacs just once a day.
I can easily live with that.

Anyway, that discussion doesn't really belong here. :-)

BTW, I just compared startup times with

  time emacs --eval '(kill-emacs)'

which gave 3.2 seconds when I start emacs/src/emacs which uses the
emacs.pdmp file, and it took 4.2 seconds when I start with my symlink
where the emacs.pdmp is probably not used (Loading loadup.el (source)...
dump mode: nil).

When I do the same with -Q, it's 0.2 vs. 1.2 seconds.  So it seems like
the dump helps a lot to startup a naked emacs, but as soon as you have
your own "parallel operating system" in your ~/.emacs (and who
doesn't?), that doesn't really matter anymore.

Bye,
Tassilo

Message #53 received at 34094 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Tassilo Horn <tsdh <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 34094 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#34094: 27.0.50; (wrong-type-argument stringp (require .
 elec-pair)) with describe-function (and other commands)
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2020 10:07:04 -0500

> emacs -Q
>
> M-x toggle-debug-on-error
> C-h f package-reinstall
>
> You get this backtrace:
>
> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument stringp (require . elec-pair))

I'm trying to find the root cause of this messed up `load-history` but
can't reproduce this problem.  IIUC it was linked to Emacs not finding
the pdmp file, so I did

    rm src/emacs.pdmp
    emacs -Q

but that still works correctly for me.

Can anyone still reproduce such a problem with `master`?


        Stefan

Message #56 received at 34094 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Tassilo Horn <tsdh <at> gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: 34094 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#34094: 27.0.50; (wrong-type-argument stringp (require .
 elec-pair)) with describe-function (and other commands)
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2020 16:31:03 +0100

Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

>> emacs -Q
>>
>> M-x toggle-debug-on-error
>> C-h f package-reinstall
>>
>> You get this backtrace:
>>
>> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument stringp (require . elec-pair))
>
> I'm trying to find the root cause of this messed up `load-history` but
> can't reproduce this problem.  IIUC it was linked to Emacs not finding
> the pdmp file, so I did
>
>     rm src/emacs.pdmp
>     emacs -Q
>
> but that still works correctly for me.

Right, the problem back then was that I had a symlink ~/bin/emacs ->
~/Repos/el/emacs/src/emacs which didn't work with the portable dumper.

> Can anyone still reproduce such a problem with `master`?

I can't.  Back then I've replaced the above symlink with a shell
script.  Now I tried again with the symlink and my recipe doesn't
trigger the error anymore.

Bye,
Tassilo

Message #59 received at 34094 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Tassilo Horn <tsdh <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 34094 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#34094: 27.0.50; (wrong-type-argument stringp (require .
 elec-pair)) with describe-function (and other commands)
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2020 11:33:30 -0500

>>     rm src/emacs.pdmp
>>     emacs -Q
>>
>> but that still works correctly for me.
>
> Right, the problem back then was that I had a symlink ~/bin/emacs ->
> ~/Repos/el/emacs/src/emacs which didn't work with the portable dumper.

Right, that made the `emacs` binary fail to find the pdmp file, so
removing the pdmp file like I did above should be a good strategy to
reproduce the same problem.

> I can't.  Back then I've replaced the above symlink with a shell
> script.  Now I tried again with the symlink and my recipe doesn't
> trigger the error anymore.

There was discussion to make Emacs follow the symlink to try and find
the corresponding pdmp file, so maybe that's what you're seeing.


        Stefan

Message #62 received at 34094 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: 34094 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, tsdh <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#34094: 27.0.50;
 (wrong-type-argument stringp (require . elec-pair)) with
 describe-function (and other commands)
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2020 19:34:59 +0200

> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
> Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2020 11:33:30 -0500
> Cc: 34094 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> There was discussion to make Emacs follow the symlink to try and find
> the corresponding pdmp file, so maybe that's what you're seeing.

"Discussion"?  I thought Daniel fixed that some time ago, see commit
65d45de.

Message #65 received at 34094 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 34094 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, tsdh <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#34094: 27.0.50; (wrong-type-argument stringp (require .
 elec-pair)) with describe-function (and other commands)
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2020 16:33:01 -0500

>> There was discussion to make Emacs follow the symlink to try and find
>> the corresponding pdmp file, so maybe that's what you're seeing.
>
> "Discussion"?  I thought Daniel fixed that some time ago, see commit
> 65d45de.

Great,  I had the impression that something had been done, but
I wasn't sure.


        Stefan

Message #68 received at 34094 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Xdkkz Lpwjd <leopold.freeman.0816 <at> gmail.com>
To: 34094 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: 27.0.50; (wrong-type-argument stringp (require . elec-pair)) with
 describe-function (and other commands)
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2020 12:35:45 +0800

[Message part 1 (text/plain, inline)]

Here's what I get:

Case 1:
Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument stringp (require . info))
  signal(wrong-type-argument (stringp (require . info)))
  #f(compiled-function (status) #<bytecode 0x1ff5ee3d21c5>)((:peer
(:certificates ...)))
  apply(#f(compiled-function (status) #<bytecode 0x1ff5ee3d21c5>) (:peer
(:certificates ((...)))))
  url-http-activate-callback()
  url-http-content-length-after-change-function(1543607 1543959 352)
  url-http-generic-filter(#<process melpa.org> "20190713 1344) ((emacs (24
4)) (cl-lib (0 5)) (avy...")

Case 2:
Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument stringp (require . info))

string-match("\\(\\`\\|/\\)sendmail\\(\\.elc\\|\\.el\\|\\.so\\)?\\(\\.gz\\)?\\'"
(require . info))

load-history-filename-element("\\(\\`\\|/\\)sendmail\\(\\.elc\\|\\.el\\|\\.so\\)?\\(\\.gz\\)?\\'")
  eval-after-load("sendmail" #f(compiled-function () #<bytecode
0x1fe3afdb7e8d>))
  byte-code("\300\301\302\"\210\303\304!\207" [eval-after-load "sendmail"
#f(compiled-function () #<bytecode 0x1fe3afdb7e8d>) provide mailabbrev] 3)
  require(mailabbrev)

byte-code("\300\301!\210\300\302!\210\300\303!\210\300\304!\210\300\305!\210\300\306!\210\300\307!\210\300\310!\210\300\311!\210\300\312!\210\300\313!\210\300\314!\210\300\315..."
[require cl-lib mailheader gmm-utils mail-utils mailabbrev mail-parse mml
rfc822 format-spec dired mm-util rfc2047 puny rmc autoload
mailclient-send-it "mailclient" custom-declare-group message
((user-mail-address custom-variable) (user-full-name custom-variable))
"Mail and news message composing." :link (custom-manual "(message)Top")
:group mail news message-various nil "Various Message Variables."
(custom-manual "(message)Various Message Variables") message-buffers
"Message Buffers." (custom-manual "(message)Message Buffers")
message-sending "Message Sending." (custom-manual "(message)Sending
Variables") message-interface "Message Interface." (custom-manual
"(message)Interface") message-forwarding "Message Forwarding."
(custom-manual "(message)Forwarding") message-insertion "Message
Insertion." (custom-manual "(message)Insertion") message-headers "Message
Headers." (custom-manual "(message)Message Headers") message-news ...] 14)
  require(message)

byte-code("\300\301!\210\300\302!\210\300\303!\210\300\304!\210\305\306\307\310\311\312\311\313\314\315\316\317&\13\207"
[require add-log pcvs-util ring message custom-declare-group log-edit nil
"Major mode for editing RCS and CVS commit messages..." :group pcl-cvs vc
:version "21.1" :prefix "log-edit-"] 12)
  require(log-edit)

byte-code("\300\301!\210\300\302!\210\300\303\304\305#\210\300\306\304\305#\210\300\307!\210\300\310!\210\300\311!\210\300\312!\210\313\314\304\315\316\317\320\321\322\323&\11\210\324..."
[require dash log-edit magit-git nil t magit-utils ring server transient
with-editor custom-declare-group git-commit "Edit Git commit messages."
:prefix "git-commit-" :link (info-link "(magit)Editing Commit Messages")
:group tools custom-declare-variable global-git-commit-mode funcall
function #f(compiled-function () #<bytecode 0x1fe3b126f625>) "Non-nil if
Global Git-Commit mode is enabled.\nSee ..." :set custom-set-minor-mode
:initialize #f(compiled-function (symbol exp) #<bytecode 0x1fe3b1241291>)
:type boolean] 12)
  require(git-commit)

byte-code("\300\301!\210\300\302!\210\300\303!\210\300\304!\210\300\305!\210\300\306!\210\300\307!\210\300\310!\210\300\311!\210\300\312!\210\300\313!\210\300\314!\210\300\315..."
[require cl-lib dash subr-x with-editor git-commit magit-core magit-diff
magit-log magit-wip magit-apply magit-repos format-spec package nil t] 4)
  require(magit)

byte-code("\301\302!\210\303\304\305\306\307\310\311\312&\7\210\313\314\315\316\317DD\320\311\304\321\322&\7\210\313\323\315\316\324DD\325\326\327\311\304\321\322\330\331&\13\210\313..."
[magit-log-margin--custom-type require magit custom-declare-group
magit-status nil "Inspect and manipulate Git repositories." :link
(info-link "(magit)Status Buffer") :group magit-modes
custom-declare-variable magit-status-mode-hook funcall function
#f(compiled-function () #<bytecode 0x1fe3b01f0695>) "Hook run after
entering Magit-Status mode." :type hook magit-status-headers-hook
#f(compiled-function () #<bytecode 0x1fe3b01f06a1>) "Hook run to insert
headers into the status buffer...." :package-version (magit . "2.1.0")
:options (magit-insert-error-header magit-insert-diff-filter-header
magit-insert-repo-header magit-insert-remote-header
magit-insert-head-branch-header magit-insert-upstream-branch-header
magit-insert-push-branch-header magit-insert-tags-header)
magit-status-sections-hook #f(compiled-function () #<bytecode
0x1fe3b01f06ad>) "Hook run to insert sections into a status buffer." (magit
. "2.12.0") magit-status-initial-section #f(compiled-function () #<bytecode
0x1fe3b01f06b9>) "The section point is placed on when a status buffe..."
(magit . "2.90.0") (choice (const :tag "as usual" nil) (repeat (choice
(number :tag "nth top-level section") (sexp :tag "section identity"))))
magit-status-goto-file-position #f(compiled-function () #<bytecode
0x1fe3b00fff8d>) "Whether to go to position corresponding to file po..."
(magit . "3.0.0") boolean magit-status-show-hashes-in-headers
#f(compiled-function () #<bytecode 0x1fe3b00fff99>) "Whether headers in the
status buffer show hashes.\n..." (magit . "2.4.0") magit-status-margin
#f(compiled-function () #<bytecode 0x1fe3b00fffb1>) "Format of the margin
in `magit-status-mode' buffer..." (magit . "2.9.0") magit-margin
:initialize ...] 20)
  autoload-do-load((autoload "magit-status" "Show the status of the current
Git repository in a..." t nil) magit-status)
  command-execute(magit-status)

Case 3:
Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument stringp (require .
finder-inf))

string-match("\\(\\`\\|/\\)imenu\\(\\.elc\\|\\.el\\|\\.so\\)?\\(\\.gz\\)?\\'"
(require . finder-inf))

load-history-filename-element("\\(\\`\\|/\\)imenu\\(\\.elc\\|\\.el\\|\\.so\\)?\\(\\.gz\\)?\\'")
  eval-after-load("imenu" #f(compiled-function () #<bytecode
0x1fff245b3b69>))
  require(org-compat)

byte-code("\302\303!\210\302\304!\210\302\305!\210\302\306!\210\10\307=\204:\0\3101)\0\311\312\11!\313P\314\315\211\211%0\2029\0\210\316\317!\210\320\321!\210..."
[this-command load-file-name require cl-lib calendar find-func format-spec
eval-buffer (error) load file-name-directory "org-loaddefs.el" nil t
message "WARNING: No org-loaddefs.el file could be found fr..." sit-for 3
"You need to run \"make\" or \"make autoloads\" from Or..." org-macs
org-compat org-keys ol org-table] 6)
  autoload-do-load((autoload "org" "Outline-based notes management and
organizer, alia..." t nil) org-mode)
  command-execute(org-mode record)
  execute-extended-command(nil "org-mode" "org-mode")
  funcall-interactively(execute-extended-command nil "org-mode" "org-mode")
  call-interactively(execute-extended-command nil nil)
  command-execute(execute-extended-command)

The way to reproduce case 3:
1. cd && mkdir backup && mv .emacs .emacs.d backup
2. add following codes to ~/.emacs

(require 'package)
(add-to-list 'package-archives '("melpa" . "https://melpa.org/packages/") t)
(package-initialize)

(provide '.emacs)

3. Open emacs

  > M-x package-list-packages

  After the package list was refreshed, install yasnippet & yasnippet-snippets

  > M-x package-install ENTER yasnippet ENTER

  > M-x package-install ENTER yasnippet-snippets ENTER

4. Delete package configration from ~/.emacs, only keep this line:
   (provide '.emacs)

5. Exit emacs

6. Delete folders, only keep yasnippet-20200604.246 &
yasnippet-snippets-20200802.1658
  $ rm -rf ~/.emacs.d/auto-save-list ~/.emacs.d/elpa/archives
~/.emacs.d/elpa/gnupg ~/.emacs.d/elpa/s-20180406.808

7. Now open emacs to edit a .org file:

  $ emacs

  > C-x C-f

  > Find file: ~/ex.org Enter

8. You can see the error in minibuffer:
  File mode specification error: (wrong-type-argument stringp (require
. finder-inf))


My emacs version: GNU Emacs 27.1 (build 1, x86_64-apple-darwin18.7.0,
NS appkit-1894.60 Version 10.15.6 (Build 19G73)) of 2020-08-12

alias emacs='/Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/Emacs -nw'

Case 3 cannot be reproduced in Emacs v26.3

Thanks

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Message #71 received at 34094 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 34178 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, tsdh <at> gnu.org,
 Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>, 34094 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#34178: 27.0.50; Tramp not responding correctly to
 "/scp:slc:" syntax
Date: Sun, 01 May 2022 12:57:48 +0200

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

>> There was discussion to make Emacs follow the symlink to try and find
>> the corresponding pdmp file, so maybe that's what you're seeing.
>
> "Discussion"?  I thought Daniel fixed that some time ago, see commit
> 65d45de.

(I'm going through old bug reports that unfortunately weren't resolved
at the time.)

I thought so, too, so I guess this bug should be fixed now, too?

Tassilo, are you still seeing this issue in recent Emacs versions?

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
   bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no

Message #76 received at 34094 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Tassilo Horn <tsdh <at> gnu.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: 34178 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>,
 Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>, 34094 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#34178: 27.0.50; Tramp not responding correctly to
 "/scp:slc:" syntax
Date: Mon, 02 May 2022 06:56:28 +0200

Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org> writes:

Hi Lars,

>>> There was discussion to make Emacs follow the symlink to try and
>>> find the corresponding pdmp file, so maybe that's what you're
>>> seeing.
>>
>> "Discussion"?  I thought Daniel fixed that some time ago, see commit
>> 65d45de.
>
> (I'm going through old bug reports that unfortunately weren't resolved
> at the time.)
>
> I thought so, too, so I guess this bug should be fixed now, too?
>
> Tassilo, are you still seeing this issue in recent Emacs versions?

Uhm, I wonder how I got into the Cc list of that bug given that I didn't
report or comment on it.  Ah, it seems it has been merged with #34094
which I reported!

C-x C-f /scp:<host>:/... works just fine with both 28 and the current
master (-Q), so I guess the issue has been fixed.

Thanks,
Tassilo

Message #79 received at 34094 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Tassilo Horn <tsdh <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 34178 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>,
 Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>, 34094 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#34178: 27.0.50; Tramp not responding correctly to
 "/scp:slc:" syntax
Date: Mon, 02 May 2022 10:04:55 +0200

Tassilo Horn <tsdh <at> gnu.org> writes:

> C-x C-f /scp:<host>:/... works just fine with both 28 and the current
> master (-Q), so I guess the issue has been fixed.

Thanks for checking; I'm closing this bug report, then.

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
   bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no

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