Re: Emacs hangs when using tramp with su

[Michael Albinus]

Mathias Millet <mathiasmillet@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi everyone,

Hi Mathias,

> After reinstalling my system, I found out that I couldnt have tramp
> working anymore, it hangs right after i enter my password.
>
> Here is what exactly happens : I type in C-x C-f /su:root@localhost:
> Here emacs asks for my password, which I provide. It then hangs,
> showing the above string in the minibuffer, and after some time :
> Tramp: Waiting for prompts from remote shell
>
> After i cancel the operation, i have :
>
> Here is what is in the tramp/su root@localhost buffer :
>
> Password: Password: 
> su: incorrect password
>
> Process *tramp/su root@localhost* exited abnormally with code 125
>
> And here is what's in debug tramp/su root@localhost :
> http://pastebin.com/0CKD1yM3

It is not the complete debug buffer. For further analysis. I would need
the full Tramp traces (best send as attachment, non-ASCII chars matter!).

If you do not want to show the traces publicly, you could send them to
me off list.

> So if anyone has an idea of what might cause this, I've been searching
> but couldn't find anything really usefull...

At least the first line of your trace looks very suspicious, a lot of
escape sequences in the prompt.

> Thanks

Best regards, Michael.