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eshell: sudo results in "Don’t know how to make a buffer-local variable an alias: tramp-use-connection-share"

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From: Chris Elrod <elrodc <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: eshell: sudo results in "Don’t know how to make a buffer-local variable an alias: tramp-use-connection-share"
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2023 09:51:26 -0400

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To expand on my earlier report, I am using the `eshell-tramp` module.

On Mon, Mar 20, 2023 at 9:48 AM Chris Elrod <elrodc <at> gmail.com> wrote:

> I just rebuilt the latest emacs master, and found that I can no longer use
> sudo in eshell.
> I get the error message:
> Don’t know how to make a buffer-local variable an alias:
> tramp-use-connection-share
>
> This variable was recently introduced:
>
> https://github.com/emacs-mirror/emacs/commit/1c39347d58533280bae74c712ad0016a5c8992aa
>

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Message #8 received at 62296 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus <at> gmx.de>
To: Chris Elrod <elrodc <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 62296 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#62296: eshell: sudo results in "Don’t
 know how to make a
 buffer-local variable an alias: tramp-use-connection-share"
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2023 16:13:16 +0100

Chris Elrod <elrodc <at> gmail.com> writes:

Hi Chris,

> To expand on my earlier report, I am using the `eshell-tramp` module.
>
> On Mon, Mar 20, 2023 at 9:48 AM Chris Elrod <elrodc <at> gmail.com> wrote:
>
>     I just rebuilt the latest emacs master, and found that I can no
>     longer use sudo in eshell.
>     I get the error message:
>     Don’t know how to make a buffer-local variable an alias:
>     tramp-use-connection-share
>
>     This variable was recently introduced:
>     https://github.com/emacs-mirror/emacs/commit/1c39347d58533280bae74c712ad0016a5c8992aa

I tried to reproduce, but I cannot. Both versions of sudo in eshell work for me:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
Welcome to the Emacs shell

~/src/emacs $ sudo ls
[sudo] password for albinus: 
aclocal.m4	ChangeLog.1    configure~    INSTALL	   make-dist	README
admin		ChangeLog.2    configure.ac  INSTALL.REPO  Makefile	src
autogen.sh	ChangeLog.3    CONTRIBUTE    leim	   Makefile.in	test
autom4te.cache	config.bat     COPYING	     lib	   modules
BUGS		config.log     doc	     lib-src	   msdos
build-aux	config.log~    etc	     lisp	   nextstep
ChangeLog	config.status  GNUmakefile   lwlib	   nt
ChangeLog~	configure      info	     m4		   oldXMenu
~/src/emacs $ cd /sudo::
/sudo:root <at> gandalf:~ # ls
123  anaconda-ks.cfg  tmp
/sudo:root <at> gandalf:~ #
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

Could you pls provide a recipe, starting with "emacs -Q"?

Best regards, Michael.

Message #11 received at 62296 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Jim Porter <jporterbugs <at> gmail.com>
To: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus <at> gmx.de>, Chris Elrod <elrodc <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 62296 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#62296: eshell: sudo results in "Don’t know how to make a buffer-local variable an alias: tramp-use-connection-share"
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2023 21:28:05 -0700

On 3/20/2023 8:13 AM, Michael Albinus wrote:
> I tried to reproduce, but I cannot. Both versions of sudo in eshell work for me:
[snip]
> 
> Could you pls provide a recipe, starting with "emacs -Q"?

I'm not able to reproduce this either, but here's what I tried from 
"emacs -Q":

  M-: (require 'eshell)
  M-: (add-to-list 'eshell-modules-list 'eshell-tramp)
  M-x eshell

  ~ $ which sudo
  eshell/sudo is a byte-compiled Lisp function in ‘em-tramp.el’.
  ~ $ sudo *whoami
  root

Chris, you could try running "make bootstrap", or at least "rm 
lisp/eshell/*.elc && make" to make sure that the Eshell code gets 
recompiled. Eshell makes pretty heavy use of defmacro and defsubst, so 
sometimes the bytecode files end up out of date and you need to get rid 
of them.

Message #14 received at 62296 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus <at> gmx.de>
To: Chris Elrod <elrodc <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 62296 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#62296: eshell: sudo results in "Don’t
 know how to make a
 buffer-local variable an alias: tramp-use-connection-share"
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2023 14:12:12 +0100

Michael Albinus <michael.albinus <at> gmx.de> writes:

Hi Chris,

> I tried to reproduce, but I cannot. Both versions of sudo in eshell work for me:
>
> Could you pls provide a recipe, starting with "emacs -Q"?

Bug#62329 is the same problem, I'll use the recipe from there. Merging
both bugs.

Best regards, Michael.

Message #17 received at 62296 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Jim Porter <jporterbugs <at> gmail.com>
To: Chris Elrod <elrodc <at> gmail.com>, 62296 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#62296: eshell: sudo results in "Don’t know how to make a buffer-local variable an alias: tramp-use-connection-share"
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2023 16:35:47 -0700

merge 62326 62295
thanks

Message #20 received at 62296 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Jim Porter <jporterbugs <at> gmail.com>
To: Chris Elrod <elrodc <at> gmail.com>, 62296 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#62296: eshell: sudo results in "Don’t know how to make a buffer-local variable an alias: tramp-use-connection-share"
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2023 16:39:39 -0700

merge 62296 62295
thanks

My previous attempt to merge this bug with its original version used a 
totally-wrong bug number for the dupe due to me mis-pasting the command. 
Hopefully this works...

Message #25 received at 62296-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Jim Porter <jporterbugs <at> gmail.com>
To: Chris Elrod <elrodc <at> gmail.com>, 62296-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#62296: eshell: sudo results in "Don’t know how to make a buffer-local variable an alias: tramp-use-connection-share"
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2023 21:01:09 -0700

On 3/21/2023 4:39 PM, Jim Porter wrote:
> Hopefully this works...

Well, I know marking as done works; sorry for the noise.

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