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Date:      Wed, 7 Dec 2005 09:00:01 +0000
From:      dom@happygiraffe.net (Dominic Mitchell)
To:        Rommel Martinez <ebzzry@gmail.com>
Cc:        ports@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: net/tramp
Message-ID:  <20051207090001.GA15187@ppe.happygiraffe.net>
In-Reply-To: <391934950512070034h425e06d4i23eb1bbf6b8b7218@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <391934950512070034h425e06d4i23eb1bbf6b8b7218@mail.gmail.com>

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On Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 04:34:17PM +0800, Rommel Martinez wrote:
> I just would like to inform you, as advised at FreeNode #FreeBSD that
> the port net/tramp doesn't work well as expected.
> 
> If I open a file under Emacs, say /root@localhost:/some/file, This
> gets displayed in the echo area for a 60 secs, temporarily causing
> Emacs to hang:
> 
>     Waiting for 60s for local shell to come up...
> 
> After around 60 seconds, a new window (Emacs window) pops up, with the
> shell prompt in it, and Emacs displays this text in the echo area:
> 
>     Couldn't find local shell prompt /bin/sh

Interesting.  It appears to work fine here on emacs-21.  What are the
contents of the buffers *tramp/su root@localhost* and *Messages*?

-Dom



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