Tramp hangs on Solaris

[Rich Abbott]

I am trying to ssh using Tramp using my emacs 24.3.1 on Solaris.
I am trying to connect to a remote server.

Using the Tramp debug feature I could see that Emacs successfully logs in,
recognizes the shell prompt and perform and ls on my home directory.
All nice a dandy until Tramp decides to check on the "stat" command, and
nothing happens afterwards, simply emacs hangs and I had to do ctrl-g to get
out of the hang and check the debug buffer.
Here is the last part of the debug screen:

13:39:58.863334 tramp-get-connection-property (7) # ls /usr/xpg4/bin/ls
13:39:58.885223 tramp-get-file-property (8) # /home/richa/
file-attributes-integer undef
13:39:58.885398 tramp-get-connection-property (7) # stat undef
13:39:58.885493 tramp-get-remote-stat (5) # Finding a suitable `stat' command
13:39:58.885577 tramp-get-connection-property (7) # remote-path
(/usr/xpg4/bin /usr/ccs/bin /usr/bin /bin /sbin /usr/sbin)
13:39:58.885699 tramp-get-connection-property (7) # process-buffer nil
13:39:58.885822 tramp-get-connection-property (7) # process-name nil
13:39:58.885932 tramp-get-connection-property (7) # process-name nil
13:39:58.886051 tramp-get-connection-property (7) # process-buffer nil
13:39:58.886209 tramp-get-connection-property (7) # last-cmd-time (21291
21022 766819 400000)
13:39:58.886320 tramp-get-connection-property (7) # process-name nil
13:39:58.886436 tramp-get-connection-property (7) # remote-echo nil
13:39:58.886517 tramp-send-command (6) # which \stat | wc -w
13:39:58.886609 tramp-get-connection-property (7) # process-name nil
13:39:58.886729 tramp-get-connection-property (7) # chunksize 500
13:39:58.886844 tramp-set-connection-property (7) # last-cmd-time (21291
21022 886774 900000)
13:39:58.886933 tramp-send-string (10) # which \stat | wc -w
13:39:58.887015 tramp-get-connection-property (7) # process-buffer nil
13:39:58.887155 tramp-send-string (10) # Sending chunk from 0 to 20
13:39:58.887354 tramp-get-connection-property (7) # check-remote-echo nil
13:39:58.887458 tramp-get-connection-property (7) # check-remote-echo nil
13:39:58.887593 tramp-accept-process-output (10) # *tramp/ssh asg1-usca-01* run
13:39:59.888012 tramp-accept-process-output (10) #
13:39:59.888189 tramp-get-connection-property (7) # check-remote-echo nil
13:39:59.888308 tramp-get-connection-property (7) # check-remote-echo nil
13:39:59.888419 tramp-accept-process-output (10) # *tramp/ssh asg1-usca-01* run
13:40:00.888836 tramp-accept-process-output (10) #
13:40:00.889017 tramp-get-connection-property (7) # check-remote-echo nil
13:40:00.889128 tramp-get-connection-property (7) # check-remote-echo nil
13:40:00.889237 tramp-accept-process-output (10) # *tramp/ssh asg1-usca-01* run
13:40:01.889622 tramp-accept-process-output (10) #
13:40:01.889794 tramp-get-connection-property (7) # check-remote-echo nil
13:40:01.889902 tramp-get-connection-property (7) # check-remote-echo nil
13:40:01.890011 tramp-accept-process-output (10) # *tramp/ssh asg1-usca-01* run
13:40:02.890420 tramp-accept-process-output (10) #
13:40:02.890612 tramp-get-connection-property (7) # check-remote-echo nil
13:40:02.890721 tramp-get-connection-property (7) # check-remote-echo nil
13:40:02.890832 tramp-accept-process-output (10) # *tramp/ssh asg1-usca-01* run
13:40:03.891231 tramp-accept-process-output (10) #
13:40:03.891404 tramp-get-connection-property (7) # check-remote-echo nil
13:40:03.891513 tramp-get-connection-property (7) # check-remote-echo nil
13:40:03.891623 tramp-accept-process-output (10) # *tramp/ssh asg1-usca-01* run
13:40:04.892001 tramp-accept-process-output (10) #
13:40:04.892175 tramp-get-connection-property (7) # check-remote-echo nil
13:40:04.892282 tramp-get-connection-property (7) # check-remote-echo nil
13:40:04.892393 tramp-accept-process-output (10) # *tramp/ssh asg1-usca-01* run
13:40:05.892844 tramp-accept-process-output (10) #


And this part :
13:40:04.892175 tramp-get-connection-property (7) # check-remote-echo nil
13:40:04.892282 tramp-get-connection-property (7) # check-remote-echo nil
13:40:04.892393 tramp-accept-process-output (10) # *tramp/ssh asg1-usca-01* run
13:40:05.892844 tramp-accept-process-output (10) #

Goes on forever if I left emacs hung without breaking out with ctrl-g.

Could you please guide me into finding a solution?

Much appreciated,
-R