Re: cannot ssh edit a file

[Michael Albinus]

Luca Ferrari <fluca1978@gmail.com> writes:

Hi Luca,

>> Can you reproduce the problem from `emacs -Q`?

> Apparently this works a little better: it does not freeze on the colon
> typing, but when I try to open a file the minibuffer keeps saying
> "Waiting for prompts from remote shell..." and the connection is not
> established. This happens both with remote users that have zsh or sh
> as login shells.
> The only difference is that with sh as default shell, the minibuffer
> says "Tramp: Found remote shell prompt on miguel" (miguel being the
> remote host) and nothing happens, no connection is made.
> I've inspected connections from the remote host point of view, and
> there is no ssh connection reported by netstat.

Please set tramp-verbose to 10, and rerun the test. There will be a
Tramp debug buffer, which shall tell us what's happening.

> Luca

Best regards, Michael.