Re: tramp: ssh method broken

[Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>]

Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) writes:

|> Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de> writes:
|> 
|> > The ssh method seems to be broken for big files.  Files that are bigger
|> > than about 100K often (but not always) end up being empty.  Files that are
|> > even bigger are always retrieved as empty.  Also, remotely saving files
|> > does not work at all, tramp is constantly trying to reinitialize the
|> > shell.  By contrast, the scp method is working just fine.
|> 
|> I tried to reproduce both problems, but I could only reproduce the
|> saving problem.  Is it fixed now?

No.  The following messages are repeated infinitely:

tramp: Initializing remote shell
tramp: Waiting 30s for remote `/bin/sh' to come up...
tramp: Setting up remote shell environment
tramp: Determining coding system
tramp: Waiting 30s for `HISTFILE=$HOME/.tramp_history; HISTSIZE=1'
tramp: Waiting 30s for `set +o vi +o emacs'
tramp: Waiting 30s for `unset MAIL MAILCHECK MAILPATH'
tramp: Waiting 30s for `unset CDPATH'
tramp: Setting shell prompt
tramp: Opening connection at neodym using ssh...
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 ^[^#$%>
]*[#$%>] *
tramp: Looking for pattern ^.*\(Connection \(?:\(?:clo\|refu\)sed\)\|Host key verification failed\.\|Login \(?:[Ii]ncorrect\)\|Name or service not known\|\(?:Permission denied\|Sorry, try again\)\.\).*\|^.*\(Received signal [0-9]+\).*
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 ^[^#$%>
]*[#$%>] *
tramp: Found remote shell prompt.

|> Maybe it also works now to find large remote files?

I still sometimes get no data, but it eventually succeeds when repeated.
Once I got into the loop above I don't seem to be able to use tramp w/ ssh
at all until I kill the *tramp/ssh ...* buffer.

Andreas.

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