net/tramp

[Dominic Mitchell]

On Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 07:52:41PM +0800, Rommel Martinez wrote:
> On 12/7/05, Dominic Mitchell <dom at happygiraffe.net> wrote:
> > On Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 04:34:17PM +0800, Rommel Martinez wrote:
> > > I just would like to inform you, as advised at FreeNode #FreeBSD that
> > > the port net/tramp doesn't work well as expected.
> > >
> > > If I open a file under Emacs, say /root at localhost:/some/file, This
> > > gets displayed in the echo area for a 60 secs, temporarily causing
> > > Emacs to hang:
> > >
> > >     Waiting for 60s for local shell to come up...
> > >
> > > After around 60 seconds, a new window (Emacs window) pops up, with the
> > > shell prompt in it, and Emacs displays this text in the echo area:
> > >
> > >     Couldn't find local shell prompt /bin/sh
> >
> > Interesting.  It appears to work fine here on emacs-21.  What are the
> > contents of the buffers *tramp/su root at localhost* and *Messages*?
> 
> *tramp/su root at localhost* contains:
> 
> $
> 
> 
> *Messages* contains:
> 
> tramp: Opening connection for root at localhost using su...
> tramp: Waiting 60s for local shell to come up...
> tramp: [[Regexp `\(^[^#$%>
> ]*[#$%>] *\|^[^#$%>
> ]*[#$%>] *\(\[[0-9;]*[a-zA-Z] *\)*\)\'' not found in 60 secs]]
> tramp: Couldn't find local shell prompt /bin/sh
> byte-code: Couldn't find local shell prompt /bin/sh

Perhaps you need to check that your root shell prompt is followed by a
space?  It sounds like it's su'ing ok, but not spotting the prompt
afterwards.

Perhaps it's worthwhile doing M-x customize RET tramp-debug-buffer RET
so that you can see all the commands that are going on in the
background.

-Dom