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Jürgen A. Erhard
Asked: 2010-03-19 02:54:05 +0800 CST

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

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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?

sudo emacs tramp

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  1. Best Answer

    Just upgrade tramp to 2.1.18 (if you are against emacs-23.1)

    $ wget ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/tramp/tramp-2.1.18.tar.gz
$ tar xvf tramp-2.1.18.tar.gz
$ cd tramp-2.1.18
$ ./configure --with-contrib
$ make 
$ sudo make install

    This will install new tramp to /usr/local/share/emacs

    Emacs will find it automagically.

    P.S. This operation needs texinfo and libgnome2-dev.

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