Re: tramp not loading (?)

[Kevin Rodgers]

ken wrote:
> Starting over.  I removed (by hand) the tramp2 installed earlier and
> installed (from tramp.el):
>
> ;; Version: $Id: tramp.el,v 2.95 2002/04/10 17:16:25 kaig Exp $
>
> Untarred under my home, then copied them to the traditional place for a
> system-wide install:
>
> /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/tramp # ll
> total 264
> drwxr-x---  2 root root   4096 Sep 10 22:43 .
> drwxr-xr-x  7 root root   4096 Sep 10 22:42 ..
> -rw-rw----  1 6104 6100   1953 Mar  3  2002 tramp-util.el
> -rw-r-----  1 6104 6100  19658 Dec 29  2001 tramp-vc.el
> -rw-r-----  1 6104 6100 225748 Apr 10  2002 tramp.el
> -rw-rw----  1 6104 6100   3480 Feb 28  2001 trampcache.el
>
> Put this into my ~/.emacs:
>
> (add-to-list 'load-path "/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/tramp/")
> (require 'tramp)   ;errors out
>
> Put the point after the closing paren of each line and did "C-x C-e"
>
> The first properly displayed the load-path in the echo area, but the
> second yeilded this pile of confusion:
>
> <snip>
> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (file-error "Cannot open load file" 
"tramp")
>   require(tramp)
>   eval((require (quote tramp)))
>   eval-last-sexp-1(nil)
>   eval-last-sexp(nil)
>   call-interactively(eval-last-sexp)

Is your uid 6104 or your gid 6100?  Because that is the only user and
group allowed to read the tramp*.el files in your
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/tramp directory.

--
Kevin Rodgers