bug#73052: closed (emacs 30 ssh: couldn't find a proper `ls' command)

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> emacs 30 ssh: couldn't find a proper `ls' command
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> Thu, 05 Sep 2024 08:27:09 -0800
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> Hi, I've recently started using emacs 30 which I compile from source. Something 
> that broke in the switch from emacs 29->30 is I am not able to use tramp to ssh 
> into any of my guix servers. I get this error
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> ```
> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (file-error "Couldn't find a proper `ls' command")
> ```
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> I reported this as an Emacs bug - 72861 - and based on the data I provided -- 
> full backtrace, etc. -- they indicated it was a guix bug. They pointed me to 
> guix bug 64534.
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> However, I tried adding the appropriate directory to tramp-remote-path 
> (/run/current-system/profile/bin) and that did not work.
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> If I switch back to 29.4 then I can access my servers again normally through 
> tramp.
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> Here is my system information:
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> ```
> christopher@theoden 
> ------------------- 
> OS: Guix System x86_64 
> Host: OptiPlex 9020 00 
> Kernel: 5.15.161-gnu 
> Uptime: 63 days, 19 hours, 14 mins 
> Packages: 167 (guix-system), 251 (guix-user) 
> Shell: bash 5.1.16 
> Resolution: 1920x1080 
> DE: GNOME 
> Theme: Adwaita [GTK2/3] 
> Icons: Adwaita [GTK2/3] 
> Terminal: guix 
> CPU: Intel i5-4570 (4) @ 3.600GHz 
> GPU: AMD ATI Radeon HD 8490 / R5 235X OEM 
> GPU: Intel HD Graphics 
> Memory: 5038MiB / 15914MiB 
> ```
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> ``` guix describe
> Generation 143  Sep 03 2024 10:14:51    (current)
>   guix 82174b2
>     repository URL: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git
>     branch: master
>     commit: 82174b2742c2a59fd7959ba9acc80edd6f93d9f7
> ```
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> The emacs version I am testing is:
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> GNU Emacs 30.0.90 (build 5, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.24.41, cairo 
> version 1.18.0) of 2024-09-03
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> -- 
> 📛 Christopher Howard
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> Re: bug#73052: emacs 30 ssh: couldn't find a proper `ls' command
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> Fri, 01 Nov 2024 08:09:45 -0800
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> I haven't been struggling with this issue for some months now. I can't remember 
> exactly what I did, but I think the key was this tramp-own-remote-path option:
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> ```
>  '(tramp-remote-path
>    '(tramp-own-remote-path tramp-default-remote-path "/bin" "/usr/bin"
>                            "/sbin" "/usr/sbin" "/usr/local/bin"
>                            "/usr/local/sbin" "/local/bin"
>                            "/local/freeware/bin" "/local/gnu/bin"
>                            "/usr/freeware/bin" "/usr/pkg/bin"
>                            "/usr/contrib/bin" "/opt/bin" "/opt/sbin"
>                            "/opt/local/bin" "/opt/homebrew/bin"
>                            "/opt/homebrew/sbin"
>                            "/run/current-system/profile/bin"))
> ```
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> -- 
> Christopher Howard
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