Re: Tramp won't work for me

[Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>]

Olivier Sirven <the.slaa@gmail.com> writes:

> Hello there,

Hi,

> I've been struggling to get tramp to work on my computers but it seems I
> just can't...
> It keeps ending in failure with this last message:
> # Waiting 30s for remote `/bin/sh' to come up...
> $ [[Regexp `\([^>$][>$] *\|[^>$][>$] *\)\'' not found in 30 secs]]

First of all, which Emacs/Tramp versions are you using? You know this by
"M-x emacs-version" and "M-x tramp-version".

> Here is my configuration:
> ; default method to SSH
> (setq tramp-default-method "ssh")

It might be not relevant for your problem, but your log indicates that
scp is still used.

> Here is the full log of my last attempt:
> # Opening connection for <USER>@<HOST> using scp...
> # ssh <HOST> -l <USER> -e none
> # Waiting for prompts from remote shell
> # Waiting 60s for prompt from remote shell
> # Looking for regexp "^.*\([pP]assword\|passphrase\).*:? *" from remote shell
> # Looking for regexp ".*ogin\( .*\)?: *" from remote shell
> # Looking for regexp "[^>$][>$] *" from remote shell

[...]

> Do you have an idea to help me fixing this?

Please set tramp-verbose to 6. After your next test run, we will need to
see the *tramp/ssh user@host* and *debug tramp/ssh user@host* buffers.
If you worry about private data, please send them to me off the list.

> Thanks

Best regards, Michael.