tramp

[Miles Bader <miles@lsi.nec.co.jp>]

Is tramp in the current emacs CVS (2002-08-02) supposed to work?

I've tried a bunch of different filenames, and invariably tramp gets
confused and just hangs waiting for a prompt or something.  When I use
^G to interrupt it, and look at the `*tramp...*' buffer, I see a shell
prompt (but apparently tramp never realized it).


For instance, visiting:

`/sudo:root@localhost:/etc':

   Shows the following messages:

      tramp: Opening connection for `root' using `sudo'...
      tramp: Processing actions
      tramp: Waiting 60s for prompt from remote shell
      tramp: Looking for pattern ^.*\([pP]assword\|passphrase.*\):
      tramp: Looking for pattern .*ogin: *
      tramp: Looking for pattern ^\(([^) 	]*)\|[^> 	]*[>]\)\s-*
      tramp: Found remote shell prompt.
      tramp: Waiting 30s for remote `/bin/sh' to come up...
      Quit

  [Seeing `Found remote shell prompt' immediately followed by 
   `Waiting 30s for remote `/bin/sh' to come up' seems ... odd.]

  Looking in the `*tramp/sudo root@localhost*' buffer, I see:

     sh-2.05b# 


`/su:root@localhost:/etc':

   Shows the following messages:

      tramp: Opening connection for `root' using `su'...
      tramp: Processing actions
      tramp: Waiting 60s for prompt from remote shell
      tramp: Looking for pattern ^.*\([pP]assword\|passphrase.*\):
      Password: 
      Password: .
      Password: ..
      Password: .......
      tramp: Looking for pattern .*ogin: *
      tramp: Looking for pattern ^\(([^) 	]*)\|[^> 	]*[>]\)\s-*
      tramp: Looking for pattern ^.*\(Permission denied.\|Login [Ii]ncorrect\|Received signal [0-9]+\|Connection \(refused\|closed\)\|Sorry, try again.\|Name or service not known\).*
      tramp: Looking for pattern Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no)\? *
      tramp: Looking for pattern ^.*\([pP]assword\|passphrase.*\):
      tramp: Looking for pattern .*ogin: *
      tramp: Looking for pattern ^\(([^) 	]*)\|[^> 	]*[>]\)\s-*
      tramp: Looking for pattern ^.*\(Permission denied.\|Login [Ii]ncorrect\|Received signal [0-9]+\|Connection \(refused\|closed\)\|Sorry, try again.\|Name or service not known\).*
      tramp: Looking for pattern Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no)\? *
      tramp: Looking for pattern ^.*\([pP]assword\|passphrase.*\):
      tramp: Looking for pattern .*ogin: *
      tramp: Looking for pattern ^\(([^) 	]*)\|[^> 	]*[>]\)\s-*
      tramp: Looking for pattern ^.*\(Permission denied.\|Login [Ii]ncorrect\|Received signal [0-9]+\|Connection \(refused\|closed\)\|Sorry, try again.\|Name or service not known\).*
      tramp: Looking for pattern Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no)\? *
      Quit

   [Note that even though the above appears as if it's asking a user
    question, it doesn't seem to accept any input; I have to interrupt
    it to do anything]

   Looking in the `*tramp/su root@localhost*' buffer, I see:


      mcspd15:~# 

   [that's a blank line at the beginning].


Trying to use the `ssh' method to connect to `fp-ssh.gnu.org' gives
similar results to the latter, but without the password prompt (I have
ssh setup to not require a password).

Thanks,

-Miles

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