Re: strange error "tramp-file-name-handler: Variable binding depth exceeds max-specpdl-size" when exporting to odt

[Rainer Stengele <rainer.stengele@online.de>]

Am 12.07.2011 13:10, schrieb Jambunathan K:
> Rainer Stengele <rainer.stengele@online.de> writes:
> 
>> Dear list,
>>
>> exporting an org file to odt I get this error under debian Linux
>> (Windows works fine) [excerpt from *Messages*]:
>>
>>
>> Using schema ~/.emacs.d/org/contrib/odt/etc/schema/od-schema-v1.2-cs01.rnc
>> ODT export done, pushed to kill ring and clipboard
>> OVERVIEW
>> CONTENTS...done
>> Using schema ~/.emacs.d/org/contrib/odt/etc/schema/od-schema-v1.2-cs01.rnc
>> tramp-file-name-handler: Variable binding depth exceeds
>> max-specpdl-size
> 
> Can you do M-x toggle-debug-on-error and post the stack trace? 
> 
> This is more likely to happen when a file/directory is being read or
> written in to and the prefix of the path looks as though it is a remote
> file. May be there is a bug in odt when it expands/abbrevs filename and
> directories.
> 
> Btw, what is different in your current setup. Why it didn't happen with
> earlier invocations. (I assume you were able to export to odt in earlier
> trial runs successfully)
> 
>> I cannot find the connection to tramp. I do not use tramp anywhere.
>> Anyone could imagine what's wrong?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Rainer
>>
>>
>>
> 
Ok, solved. I had to remove some Windows settings and paths from my
.emacs - or better, only load them when being under Windows. Obviously
the exporting process somewhere took the Windows path patterns as
trampable triggers.


Thanks!
Rainer.


Here the stacktrace that brought the insight:



Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "Variable binding depth exceeds
max-specpdl-size")
  browse-url-delete-temp-file()
  tramp-file-name-handler(expand-file-name
"/C:/Programme/Emacs/emacs/share/emacs/site-lisp/w3m" "/")

...

  tramp-file-name-handler(expand-file-name
"/C:/Programme/Emacs/emacs/share/emacs/site-lisp/w3m" "/")
  tramp-file-name-handler(expand-file-name "/c:/cygwin/bin/" "/")
  expand-file-name("c:/cygwin/bin/" "/")
  apply(expand-file-name ("c:/cygwin/bin/" "/"))
  (let* ((inhibit-file-name-handlers ...) (inhibit-file-name-operation
operation)) (apply operation args))
  tramp-completion-run-real-handler(expand-file-name ("c:/cygwin/bin/" "/"))
  (if (and fn tramp-mode (or ... ... ... ... ...)) (save-match-data
(apply ... args)) (tramp-completion-run-real-handler operation args))
  (let ((directory-sep-char 47) (fn ...)) (if (and fn tramp-mode ...)
(save-match-data ...) (tramp-completion-run-real-handler operation args)))
  tramp-completion-file-name-handler(expand-file-name "c:/cygwin/bin/" "/")
  call-process-region(1 57640 "sha1sum" "/tmp/emacs8vkk6R" t nil)
  apply(call-process-region 1 57640 "sha1sum" "/tmp/emacs8vkk6R" t nil nil)
  sha1-string-external("<?xml version=\"1.0\"
encoding=\"UTF-8\"?>\n<office:document-styles
xmlns:office=\"urn:oasis:names:tc:opendocument:xmlns:office:1.0\"
xmlns:style=\"urn:oasis:names:tc:opendocument:xmlns:style:1.0\"

...

  org-do-lparse(nil hidden nil nil nil nil)
  (let* ((org-lparse-backend ...) (org-lparse-other-backend ...))
(unless (org-lparse-backend-is-native-p native-backend) (error "Don't
know how to export natively to backend %s" native-backend)) (unless (or
... ... ...) (error "Don't know how to export to backend %s %s"
target-backend ...)) (run-hooks (quote org-export-first-hook))
(org-do-lparse arg hidden ext-plist to-buffer body-only pub-dir))
  org-lparse("odt" "odt" nil hidden)
  (let (f (file-or-buf ...)) (when file-or-buf (setq f ...) (message
"Opening file %s" f) (org-open-file f) (when
org-export-kill-product-buffer-when-displayed ...)))
  org-lparse-and-open("odt" "odt" nil)
  org-export-as-odt-and-open(nil)
  call-interactively(org-export-as-odt-and-open)
  org-export(nil)
  call-interactively(org-export nil nil)
  recursive-edit()
  byte-code("\306\x10	@\307=\203!