Re: TRAMP hanging on “Waiting for prompts …”

[Michael Albinus]

Sean Whitton <address@hidden> writes:

> Dear Michael,

Hi Sean,

> I’ve let it last much longer than this in the past, and there is no
> change—I just hit C-g quickly this time because I was only running it to
> generate the debug output to e-mail to the list :-)

OK. But 2 seconds might be too short; there was no output yet from the
process.

>> According to the traces, the remote server didn't return any string
>> (yet). What happens, if you call in a shell
>
>> # ssh -l swhitton -e none athena
>
> It works fine; I get a prompt.

Please rerun the test in your Emacs for some seconds. After
interrupting, I'ld like to see the buffer *tramp/ssh address@hidden
It might contain non-printable characters; please send it as attachment.

> S

Best regards, Michael.