Re: how to troubleshoot tramp on windows

[Paul Gatewood]

Michael -- thanks very much for the response.

I actually got this working and am sorry I was so busy I did not follow up my 
own posting with the results.

The problem seems to have been with my definition of the variable 
shell-prompt-pattern.
Even though I kept changing it, thinking it had to be the problem, the changes 
never made a difference.

Then I thought to exit emacs (something I don't do regularly!), thinking maybe 
the process which had been spawned retained the earlier value.
Once I restarted (having followed the other steps outlined in the document I 
cited),
it worked fine.

Now, in emacs, I only use the following 3 lines of elisp:
   (require 'tramp)
   (setq tramp-default-method "plink")
   (setq shell-prompt-pattern "^.*\\$ ")
and then I can use the syntax
   /plink:address@hidden:.
(as argument, say, to dired), after which I am prompted for the password, and 
then I get the normal dired listing.

In case it helps anyone else, I also got derailed once when I found out the variable of 
PATH used for cmd.exe (windows xp) was getting clobbered by some remote process.  Our 
workstations are managed by a central group who often "push" updates, etc. to 
individual workstations.  It took me a little while to figure out that this was 
happening, as well.

Thanks again, for your response, and for providing such a useful package!

-Paul





Michael Albinus wrote:
> Paul Gatewood <address@hidden> writes:
>
> Hi,
>
> > When I try to open a file, e.g. using the syntax:
> >     /address@hidden:.profile
> > I get the following output in the buffer
> >     *debug tramp/plink address@hidden (sorry the output is wrapped):
> >
> >     1File error: [[Regexp `^///92fb9be1e1d8535b966a60c6d8167761
> > ?$' not found in 10 secs]]
>
> [...]
>
> > 11:01:52 tramp-get-connection-property (7) # home-directory undef
> > 11:01:52 tramp-get-connection-property (7) # process-name nil
> > 11:01:52 tramp-get-connection-property (7) # last-cmd-time (17985
> > 57341 550000)
> > 11:01:52 tramp-get-connection-property (7) # process-name nil
> > 11:01:52 tramp-get-connection-property (7) # remote-echo nil
> > 11:01:52 tramp-send-command (6) # echo are you awake
>
> This is not the complete Tramp debug buffer. The "are you awake" message
> is sent once a connection was opened already, and a new command has been
> sent after a while.
>
> For analysis, I'ld like to see the whole debug buffer after a fresh
> Emacs start and a new Tramp connection attempt. This shall reduce side
> effects.
>
> It would simplify the analysis if you would send your bug report via M-x
> tramp-submit-bug. This provides additional information.
>
> Best regards, Michael.