With tramp: Error running timer ‘compilation-auto-jump’: (wrong-type-argument stringp nil) about ggtags HOT 5 OPEN

Encountered the same error today. Maybe it can be fixed with some quick workaround?

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Same error here... Any solution yet?

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Same here (again). The issue is obviously racy; it worked for some time, but now it's persistent again.
I'm currently circumventing this very crudely, by preserving the compilation buffer even if there's only one match:

diff -u /home/arnez/.emacs.d/elpa/ggtags-20220511.610/ggtags.el\~ /home/arnez/.emacs.d/elpa/ggtags-20220511.610/ggtags.el
--- /home/arnez/.emacs.d/elpa/ggtags-20220511.610/ggtags.el~	2022-06-01 14:07:40.781288558 +0200
+++ /home/arnez/.emacs.d/elpa/ggtags-20220511.610/ggtags.el	2022-07-20 20:18:20.920608602 +0200
@@ -1668,11 +1668,12 @@
       ;; - http://debbugs.gnu.org/23987
       ;; - https://github.com/leoliu/ggtags/issues/89
       ;;
-      (pcase (cl-find 'compilation-auto-jump timer-list :key #'timer--function)
-        (`nil )
-        (timer (timer-event-handler timer)))
-      (ggtags-navigation-mode -1)
-      (ggtags-navigation-mode-cleanup buf t)))))
+      ;; (pcase (cl-find 'compilation-auto-jump timer-list :key #'timer--function)
+      ;;   (`nil )
+      ;;   (timer (timer-event-handler timer)))
+      ;; (ggtags-navigation-mode -1)
+      ;; (ggtags-navigation-mode-cleanup buf t)
+      ))))
 
 (defvar ggtags-global-mode-font-lock-keywords
   '(("^Global \\(exited abnormally\\|interrupt\\|killed\\|terminated\\)\\(?:.*with code \\([0-9]+\\)\\)?.*"

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I faced this same issue in the past and finally decided to use xref with ggtags as a backend to avoid these races.

The xref backend code section also seems to have a race, but I recently sent PR #224 which seems to fix it.

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I faced this same issue in the past and finally decided to use xref with ggtags as a backend to avoid these races.

The xref backend code section also seems to have a race, but I recently sent PR #224 which seems to fix it.

At the end I also decided to use xref and all the other emacs provided infrastructure for everything (imenu, completions, project.el). And as I also faced issues there I decided to go with my own simpler and clean implementation optimized for tramp support: https://github.com/Ergus/gtags-mode

It is already in elpa btw.

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