Re: Killing a hung ssh process in a TRAMP session

[Suvayu Ali]

Hi Michael,

On Thursday 07 January 2010 12:41 AM, Michael Albinus wrote:
> Suvayu Ali<fatkasuvayu+linux@gmail.com>  writes:
>
> > Is there any way I could tell emacs not to reconnect when this
> > happens? I tried running `ps uf -u `whoami`' and kill the shell
> > running the hung ssh process. But that only re-spawns the process
> > again.
> >
> > Is there anyway around this? Hopefully I have explained my predicament
> > clearly. Thanks for any advice on this.
>
> Usually, you should be able to interrupt Tramp's activities by
> C-g. Which version of Tramp do you use? You find it out by
> "C-h v tramp-version".

My version of tramp is 2.1.15, Emacs 23.1.1.

> Furthermore, there are some commands to close a connection.
> "M-x tramp-cleanup-connection" allows you to close a connection.
> "M-x tramp-cleanup-all-connections" closes all existing connections, and
> "M-x tramp-cleanup-all-buffers" does the same, and deletes also related
> buffers.

These will be a lot of help when emacs is still responsive, thanks. But 
usually when this happens, all the frames associated to the emacs server 
freezes, and doesn't respond to any keyboard or mouse input. I also see 
similar behaviour whenever TRAMP is busy with the network, say 
authenticating to the remote server. As soon as its done, every thing 
goes back to normal. Maybe I should have taken screen shots. :-\

> Best regards, Michael.

Thanks a lot for the response, I will try to take some screen shots the 
next time this happens.
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Suvayu

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