tramp - Boot Panic

Emacs/tramp: sudo to root on localhost hangs after asking for password

March 22, 2022 by admin

Can’t use the su method, since I don’t really want to veer from the Ubuntu default too much. ssh is right out (for localhost? I ask you!). It shows a “Waiting for prompts from remote shell”. And that’s it, apparently. Or is it just that incredibly slow? Answer Just upgrade tramp to 2.1.18 (if you … Read more

Why does Tramp hang when sending Perl scripts to the remote host?

March 11, 2022 by admin

I know that this is not directly programming related, but I’m stumped, and since Emacs is my main programming tool… I am trying to set up Tramp to connect to my testing host. I’m invoking it either using /ssh:host:.bashrc or /scp:host:.bashrc but both of these run into the same problem, sooner or later. They get … Read more