Subject: Re: bug#15058: 24.3; ftp is still broken

From: Glenn Morris <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 09 Aug 2013 15:02:17 -0400

Devon Sean McCullough wrote:

> emacs -Q /[email-masked]:
>
> Should display the FTP.GNU.ORG: directory but instead bombs -

What do you actually mean by "it bombs"?

> for details, look in the *ftp [email-masked]* buffer.

Please show us the contents, since no-one else seems to be able to
reproduce this.

> Opening FTP connection to ftp.gnu.org...done
> Logging in as user [email-masked]...done
> Getting PWD... [2 times]
> Warning! Unable to get home directory

What's going on here?

Seems to resemble
http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=1972

Something to do with active/passive ftp?