Re: tramp (2.2.6-pre); ssh hangs after password prompt

[Michael Albinus]

Ted Zlatanov <address@hidden> writes:

> /bin/test is missing on both my CentOS and Ubuntu systems (on Ubuntu zsh
> reports it's an internal command though):
>
> % /bin/test -e /
> zsh: no such file or directory: /bin/test
>
> % which test
> /usr/bin/test
>
> I don't understand why this became a problem suddenly.  Weird. 

IIRC, some distributions (including Ubuntu and Fedora) are removing the
/bin and /sbin directories. Likely, CentOS does it as well, and you are
caught by this.

> I linked /bin/test to /usr/bin/test but it doesn't fix the problem, it
> now becomes the following, repeated many times:

Please don't. Remove the link, and cleanup all Tramp caches by
`M-x tramp-cleanup-all-connections'. This should solve the problem.

> Ted

Best regards, Michael.