From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Harry Putnam Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: remote tramp hangs Date: Tue, 01 Dec 2009 13:47:11 -0600 Organization: Still searching... Message-ID: <87ocmitr28.fsf@newsguy.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1259697084 32616 80.91.229.12 (1 Dec 2009 19:51:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2009 19:51:24 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Dec 01 20:51:17 2009 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 1NFYkl-0002jC-U5 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 01 Dec 2009 20:51:16 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:48860 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NFYkl-0003rb-HE for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 01 Dec 2009 14:51:15 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NFYji-000318-Jw for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Dec 2009 14:50:10 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NFYje-0002wK-HT for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Dec 2009 14:50:10 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=55427 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NFYje-0002vp-7H for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Dec 2009 14:50:06 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:52524) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NFYjd-0000TM-Oh for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Dec 2009 14:50:06 -0500 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1NFYjb-0002Ei-Ry for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Dec 2009 20:50:03 +0100 Original-Received: from c-98-215-178-110.hsd1.in.comcast.net ([98.215.178.110]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 01 Dec 2009 20:50:03 +0100 Original-Received: from reader by c-98-215-178-110.hsd1.in.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 01 Dec 2009 20:50:03 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 15 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-98-215-178-110.hsd1.in.comcast.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/23.1.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:xzg1eA8pC/w6DJ+Dsef17PNYxms= X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:70293 Archived-At: raphael.berbain@gmail.com (Raphaël Berbain) writes: > Hi, > > I am having problems making tramp work. In a nutshell, "/remotehost:" > works, but "/root@remotehost:" doesn't work, though I can passwordlessly > ssh/scp root@remotehost. It hangs with the message "Tramp: Found remote > shell prompt on `remotehost'". I think Peter D has put you on the right track but since no one here has mentioned it so far, another way to gather some info and maybe see how the root shell is responding is to do a direct ssh but with the -v set and even -vv: ssh -vv root@problemhost