Michael Albinus writes: > That's the first difference to my traces. Locally, I have here > > shadow-add-to-todo: ((/tmp/shadowfile-tests0mPIFq . /cluster2:/tmp/shadowfile-tests0mPIFq)) nil > > So you have a nil value of `shadows' in that trace. Looking at the code, > I see that `file-truename' is used to compute `shadows'. That rings a > bell - `temporary-file-directory' on macOS is located on a symlink. I > ran into this trap earlier already. > > I hope, that my fix, pushed to master, fixes this now. I'm still seing failures on current master on these tests, including the line you noted above: shadow-add-to-todo: nil nil I've attached the complete log of the latest run (commit 034f9363e). Thanks again, Stefan Kangas