From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: braydon fuller Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: tramp hang Date: Sun, 06 Jan 2008 03:27:52 -0800 Message-ID: <4780BB38.3040508@braydon.com> References: <47809324.4090601@braydon.com> <878x33wcgh.fsf@thievol.homelinux.org> <47809D21.5030401@braydon.com> <874pdrwa6t.fsf@thievol.homelinux.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1199618913 22874 80.91.229.12 (6 Jan 2008 11:28:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2008 11:28:33 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jan 06 12:28:53 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JBTgS-0005R6-UF for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 06 Jan 2008 12:28:53 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JBTg6-0008Bt-FV for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 06 Jan 2008 06:28:30 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JBTfh-00086P-Cl for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Jan 2008 06:28:05 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JBTff-00081f-BA for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Jan 2008 06:28:03 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JBTfe-00081F-UB for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Jan 2008 06:28:02 -0500 Original-Received: from cl35.gs01.gridserver.com ([64.13.192.44]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JBTfe-00059X-3p for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Jan 2008 06:28:02 -0500 Original-Received: from 24-205-80-87.dhcp.psdn.ca.charter.com ([24.205.80.87]:51708 helo=[192.168.0.101]) by cl35.gs01.gridserver.com with esmtpa (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1JBTeW-0004iS-SD for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Jan 2008 03:26:52 -0800 User-Agent: Mozilla-Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (X11/20080103) In-Reply-To: <874pdrwa6t.fsf@thievol.homelinux.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.0 X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:50532 Archived-At: I finally got tramp working by using the following in my .emacs: (setq shell-prompt-pattern "") (if the above character between " " doesn't show up, it looked like "^H" in my .emacs) I copied the character it was repeating at the end of my prompt found by looking in the buffer: *tramp ssh:root@.......* i got this buffer by enabling the following in my .emacs: (setq tramp-debug-buffer t) ----- To login I used the command: C-x M-f Find file: /root@sample.com:/ with the following in my .emacs: (setq tramp-default-method "ssh") ----- This worked for a GPLHost XEN VPS running Debian lenny/sid I am using Emacs22 that has TRAMP packaged. ----- I also used in my .emacs so tramp would previously be loaded, however it's not required, emacs will load it on the fly: (require 'tramp)