Re: remote tramp hangs

[Harry Putnam]

raphael.berbain@gmail.com (Raphaël Berbain) writes:

> Hi,
>
> I am having problems making tramp work.  In a nutshell, "/remotehost:"
> works, but "/root@remotehost:" doesn't work, though I can passwordlessly
> ssh/scp root@remotehost.  It hangs with the message "Tramp: Found remote
> shell prompt on `remotehost'".

I think Peter D has put you on the right track but since no one here
has mentioned it so far, another way to gather some info and maybe see
how the root shell is responding is to do a direct ssh but with the -v
set and even -vv:

ssh -vv root@problemhost