On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 1:25 AM, Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com> wrote:

> Noorul Islam <noorul@noorul.com> wrote:
>
> > On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 4:23 AM,  <markscala@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > I updated to 7.02 today and now am unable to publish a project to
> > > html.  This is the error reported in *Messages*
> > >
> > > Publishing file /home/mark/teach/10fall/metaphysics/notes/index.orgusing `org-publish-org-to-html'
> > > Exporting...
> > > tramp-convert-file-attributes: Wrong type argument: numberp,
> > > 1288383678\.599600284\.0
> > >
> > > Here's my setting of org-publish-project-alist:
> > >
> > >  (setq org-publish-project-alist '(("metaphysics"
> > >                                     :base-directory
> "~/teach/10fall/metaphysics/notes/"
> > >                                     :publishing-directory
> "/ssh:metaphysics@192.168.2.100:~/metaphysics"
> > >                                     :recursive t
> > >                                     :section-numbers nil
> > >                                     :table-of-contents nil
> > >                                     :base-extension "org"
> > >                                     :publishing-function
> org-publish-org-to-html
> > >                                     :author-info nil
> > >                                     :creator-info nil)))
> >
> > I tried to re-create this on my machine using
> >
> > (setq org-publish-project-alist '(("metaphysics"
> >                                     :base-directory "/tmp/notes/"
> >                                     :publishing-directory
> > "/ssh:noorul@127.0.0.1:/tmp/publish"
> >                                     :recursive t
> >                                     :section-numbers nil
> >                                     :table-of-contents nil
> >                                     :base-extension "org"
> >                                     :publishing-function
> org-publish-org-to-html
> >                                     :author-info nil
> >                                     :creator-info nil)))
> >
> > I got the project published without any issues.
> >
> > I have
> >
> > Org-mode version 7.01trans (release_7.01h.880.gba6b6)
> > GNU Emacs 23.2.2 (i686-pc-linux-gnu)
> >  of 2010-06-08 on sajida
> >
> I tried with just-pulled 7.02 and could not reproduce it either. It
> looks like a tramp problem.
>
> Mark, try evaluating the following form (but note that the IP address
> looks like a DHCP address assigned by your router, so you should make
> sure that it is still correct):
>
> (file-attributes "/ssh:metaphysics@192.168.2.100:
> /home/mark/metaphysics/index.html")
>
> You can evaluate it by placing the cursor after the closing paren
> of the form and pressing ``C-x C-e''. Do you get the same error?
> Either way it probably has nothing to do with org, but if you do
> get the same error, then it *definitely* has nothing to do with org.
>
> HTH,
> Nick
>
>
>
> Nick, you were right. This problem doesn't arise from Org at all.  It had
to do with an upgrade to coreutils (in my case, on Arch Linux).  In case
anyone else encounters this, I solved the  problem by applying the patch at
this link:

http://osdir.com/ml/tramp-devel-gnu/2010-10/msg00009.html

Best,
Mark