From: "Loris Bennett" <loris.bennett@fu-berlin.de>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Erroneous "No such file or directory" with babel and remote dir
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2012 08:28:16 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87txssiqy7.fsf@slate.zedat.fu-berlin.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 7557.1352869451@alphaville
Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com> writes:
> Loris Bennett <loris.bennett@fu-berlin.de> wrote:
>
>> Achim Gratz <Stromeko@nexgo.de> writes:
>>
>> > Loris Bennett writes:
>> >> OK, I must have goofed. What I did after starting the bisection was
>> >>
>> >> - run 'make autoload'
>> >> - open test file in emacs with minimal .emacs
>> >> - test
>> >> - end emacs
>> >> - mark bisection good or bad
>> >>
>> >> I then repeated this for the next commit.
>> >
>> > This would be the correct thing to do, yes.
>> >
>> >> Is something missing here, or did I just incorrectly mark a commit?
>> >
>> > I really don't know, I'm just guessing… :-)
>> >
>> > It may be more informative if you traced the invocation of the remote
>> > execution in both a failing and a working version in the debugger and
>> > look for any differences as the arguments are cobbled together. Once
>> > you find where an how these diverge it would be much easier to find the
>> > code that is responsible for it (if it wasn't glaringly obvious from the
>> > trace already).
>> >
>> >
>> > Regards,
>> > Achim.
>>
>> So just as a reminder:
>>
>> Back in the days of release_7.01h, the following used to work:
>>
>> ,------------------------------------------
>> | #+begin_src sh :dir /loris@othercomputer:
>> | hostname
>> | #+end_src
>> `------------------------------------------
>>
>> Currently it produces the error:
>>
>> ,---------------------------------------------------
>> | apply: Wrong type argument: number-or-marker-p, ""
>> `---------------------------------------------------
>>
>> I have had another go at bisecting this problem and came up with this:
>>
>> ,-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> | 9c878a8290c071fbe5e97bc33c300ef2f07d6153 is the first bad commit
>> | commit 9c878a8290c071fbe5e97bc33c300ef2f07d6153
>> | Author: Dan Davison <davison@stats.ox.ac.uk>
>> | Date: Mon Aug 30 09:34:05 2010 -0700
>> |
>> | babel: Fix temporary file processing in the remote execution case.
>> |
>> | * ob.el (org-babel-temp-file): Don't use babel temporary
>> | directory in remote case; use make-temp-file with remote file
>> | name so that temp file is guaranteed not to exist previously
>> | on remote machine.
>> | (org-babel-tramp-localname): New function to return local name
>> | portion of possibly remote file specification
>> |
>> | * ob-R.el (org-babel-R-evaluate-external-process): Respond to
>> | changes in `org-babel-temp-file'; pass local file name to
>> | remote R process.
>> | (org-babel-R-evaluate-session) Respond to
>> | changes in `org-babel-temp-file'; pass local file name to
>> | remote R process.
>> |
>> | :040000 040000 b31e072cf6b2951e95b7956d907303e7a04a8cfd 5f794ada52cceb0614fe7962a399f7e549759003 M lisp
>> `-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> Does that help anyone any further?
>>
>
> I don't think so: afaict, both 7.01h (which did not contain this patch)
> and 7.02 (which did) do the right thing (at least with your simple
> script above). Something else broke it.
>
> [I've been wrong about these things before so before Achim asks, I
> did
>
> git tag --contains 9c878a8290c071fbe5e97bc33c300ef2f07d6153
>
> and used its output as a basis of the above statement. I think (hope?)
> it's correct.]
>
>> Loris
>>
>> PS: I am amazed there aren't any more peasants like myself with torches
>> and pitchforks beating on the gates of Castle Org about this - remote
>> execution is/was such great feature!
>>
>
> Agreed, but Dan Davison (the principal contributor of the remoting code)
> is gone from Castle Org (as you put it), Eric S. is busy, and nobody
> else has stepped up to the plate. I've made fitful attempts to debug it,
> but have had no success: I've never looked at the code in detail and I
> don't have much time either.
>
> So how about becoming a resident of Castle Org rather than beating on
> the gates? There's glory galore if you fix it - and you get to scratch
> your itch too :-)
OK, I don't have that much time either but, as my Lisp skills are pretty
rudimentary, I've often thought it might be a good idea to take on some
sort of lisp project, so I'll try to give it a go.
Cheers,
Loris
--
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-11-14 7:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-09-10 14:36 Erroneous "No such file or directory" with babel and remote dir Loris Bennett
2012-09-10 14:42 ` Loris Bennett
2012-09-19 7:37 ` Bastien
2012-09-25 14:11 ` Loris Bennett
2012-09-25 15:30 ` Memnon Anon
2012-09-25 19:54 ` Achim Gratz
2012-09-26 6:56 ` Loris Bennett
2012-09-26 7:14 ` Bastien
2012-09-26 12:10 ` Loris Bennett
2012-09-26 18:09 ` Achim Gratz
2012-09-26 18:38 ` Nick Dokos
2012-09-26 18:57 ` Loris Bennett
2012-09-26 20:06 ` Achim Gratz
2012-09-27 6:38 ` Loris Bennett
2012-09-27 17:22 ` Achim Gratz
2012-11-13 15:16 ` Loris Bennett
2012-11-14 5:04 ` Nick Dokos
2012-11-14 6:23 ` Nick Dokos
2012-11-14 7:48 ` Loris Bennett
2012-11-14 19:47 ` Nick Dokos
2012-11-15 6:55 ` Nick Dokos
2012-11-15 18:31 ` Achim Gratz
2012-11-14 7:28 ` Loris Bennett [this message]
2012-11-13 15:39 ` Loris Bennett
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