From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: sebastien.kirche.no@spam.free.fr ( =?iso-8859-15?q?S=E9bastien_Kirche?=) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Editing a file as root Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2003 11:47:12 +0100 Organization: Guest of ProXad - France Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1071486113 7752 80.91.224.253 (15 Dec 2003 11:01:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2003 11:01:53 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Dec 15 12:01:50 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AVqU2-0006px-00 for ; Mon, 15 Dec 2003 12:01:50 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AVrQy-0000KT-Nn for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 15 Dec 2003 07:02:44 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!fr.ip.ndsoftware.net!proxad.net!proxad.net!feeder2-1.proxad.net!news4-1.free.fr!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.1002 (Gnus v5.10.2) Emacs/21.3.50 (darwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:2sAhJj4uTNna6cZvzpxlnMSk77c= Original-Lines: 29 Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 15 Dec 2003 11:47:59 MET Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 195.25.216.129 Original-X-Trace: 1071485279 news4-1.free.fr 29074 195.25.216.129:11155 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@proxad.net Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:119329 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:15268 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:15268 On my system (Mac OSX 10.2.8), emacs fails or freezes after entering the superuser password. "top" shows that no cpu is used by emacs, and i can get the control back with C-g Here is the messages left by tramp : Loading tramp... Loading executable...done Loading tramp...done tramp: Opening connection for `' using `su'... tramp: Waiting for prompts from remote shell tramp: Waiting 60s for prompt from remote shell tramp: Sending password Password: Password:. Password:.. Password:... Password:.... Password:..... Password:...... Password:....... tramp-process-actions: Login failed I remember recent considerations about a bad behavior of emacs on osx and communication with sub-processes. But i wasn't able to find them again. Maybe it is relative to my problem ? Sébastien Kirche