Re: when ssh connections get stale

[Michael Albinus]

積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <address@hidden> writes:

Hi Dan,

> After say an hour, if an ssh connection get stale,
> if in a *shell*, we would just do
> ~.
> $ ssh same.place.again
>
> But apparently doing
> $ emacsclient -n /ssh:same.place.again
> will not unfreeze anything.

I cannot reproduce it locally. How do you get the ssh connection to be
stale?

> So perhaps the manual should document the only solution is to restart
> the entire emacs, as tramp's firmly holds on to the now dead connection.

There is "M-x tramp-cleanup-all-connections", which should cure it. The
manual speaks about.

> tramp-version "2.4.0"

Btw, I've released Tramp 2.4.1 yesterday.

Best regards, Michael.