Re: Get "Args out of range" on remote file loaded with tramp on emacs 27 on debian

[Michael Albinus]

Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no> writes:

Hi Steinar,

> Platform: debian 11 "bullseye", amd64
>         GNU Emacs 27.1 (build 1, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.24.24, 
> cairo version 1.16.0) of 2021-03-28, modified by Debian
>
> After the upgrade to debian 11, which brought me emacs 27, there are
> some remote files that fail on load with "Args out of range".
>
> There is also at least one, fairly large (1.9MB) file, that loads file
> (the file used by the old gnus-sync.el).
>
> Looking at the Messages buffer, it seems that the load fails after the
> file has been fetched and successfully decompressed.
>
> Does anyone know what causes this? And does anyone know what I can do to
> fix it?

Does it also happen if you call "emacs -Q"?

If not, bisect your ~/.emacs in order to find the
culprit. Otherwise, enable backtraces, and show them.

(setq debug-on-error t)

> Thanks!
>
>  -Steinar

Best regards, Michael.