On Thu, 14 Jan 2016, John Kitchin wrote:
Hi, I opened an org file using tramp on a remote server. It opened fine,
and I had no trouble writing text and saving it. For fun I tried running
a src block (a shell block that just returned the hostname), and got
this error:
%s'...failed
tramp-file-name-handler: Couldn't write region to
`/scp:jkitc...@gilgamesh.cheme.cmu.edu:/var/folders/5q/lllv2yf95hg_n6h6kjttbmdw0000gn/T/ob-input-30024dza',
decode using `base64 -d -i >%s' failed
Should this have worked? It looks like it tried to write a local path
from my Mac to the server, and that path doesn't exist there.
This works for me from my mac on a remote Centos system.
I think this tripped me up in the past, but my notes do not reveal the fix
I used.
I think this is a temporary-file-directory issue, but nothing in my init
pertains to that variable or tramp.
In my emacs-init.org, I do have
#+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
(setq default-directory "/Users/cberry/")
#+END_SRC
and I see a lot of references to this in tramp-compat.el. So, maybe
setting it is enough to get emacs and/or tramp to use my local client for
temp files.
In *Messages* I see this after running the src block:
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
Evaluate this shell code block on your system? (y or n) y
executing Shell code block...
Tramp: Encoding local file
`/var/folders/kb/2hchpbyj7lb6z76l0q73w_fh0000gn/T/tramp.560h4h' using
`base64-encode-region'...done
Tramp: Decoding remote file `/scp:<me at remote host>:/tmp/ob-input-560Uub' using
`base64 -d -i >%s'...done
Tramp: Encoding local file
`/var/folders/kb/2hchpbyj7lb6z76l0q73w_fh0000gn/T/tramp.5607Mu' using
`base64-encode-region'...done
Tramp: Decoding remote file `/scp:<me at remote host>:/tmp/ob-error-560uCo' using
`base64 -d -i >%s'...done
...<and more cycles like that>
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
and when I issue `C-h v temporary-file-directory RET' in the buffer of the
remote file,
I get the same `/var/folders/...' which is what `echo $TMPDIR' shows locally.
HTH,
Chuck
