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emacswindows-xptrampplink

Emacs, tramp, plink problem on XP

The target machine is running Ububtu server 8.04.
Here's the tramp output:

tramp: Opening connection for nungu@ip.ip.ip.ip using nil...<br>
tramp: Waiting for prompts from remote shell<br>
tramp: Waiting 60s for prompt from remote shell<br>
tramp: Sending password<br>
tramp: Found remote shell prompt.<br>
tramp: Initializing remote shell<br>
Loading time-date...done<br>
tramp: Waiting 30s for remote `/bin/sh' to come up...<br>
tramp: Setting up remote shell environment

apply: Couldn't `stty -inlcr -echo kill '^U'', see buffer `*tramp/plink nungu@ip.ip.ip.ip*'

edit, verbose buffer contains this at the end:

# Waiting 30s for remote `/bin/sh' to come up...
exec env 'ENV=' 'PROMPT_COMMAND=' 'PS1=$ ' /bin/sh
$ exec env 'ENV=' 'PROMPT_COMMAND=' 'PS1=$ ' /bin/sh
$ 
# Setting up remote shell environment
$ stty -inlcr -echo kill '^U'
stty -inlcr -echo kill '^U'

$ $ $ [[Regexp `\(^[^#$%>
]*[#$%>] *\|^[^#$%>
]*[#$%>] *\(\[[0-9;]*[a-zA-Z] *\)*\)\'' not found in 30 secs]]

The command:
stty -inlcr -echo kill '^U'
-inclr turns off "translate newline to carriage return"
-echo turns off "echo input characters"
kill '^U' sets '^U' to erase the current line

Solution

  • Same problem; and a fix

    Working: NTEmacs-22.1 - Tramp Version: 2.0.55

    Failing: NTEmacs-22.3.1 - Tramp Version: 2.0.58-pre

    See comment - neither 2.0.* release worked on emacs-22.3.1

    Upgraded to tramp 2.1.14 - emacs 22/3/1 works great

    Recommend you try upgrading from Savannah.

    Note: I didn't configure properly just deleted the existing tramp el and elc files from listp/net; and dropped the ones from the downloaded tar in - you need to modify trampver.el.in to build a meaningful lisp file - but it's not exactly rocket science