Re: Trouble connecting from Debian to FreeBSD

[Michael Albinus]

Steffen Rick <steffen.rick@srick.org> writes:

> Hi,

Hi Steffen,

> I have an odd case where I'm unable to connect to my Freebsd server
> from my Debian desktop. Locally on the Debian box /ssh:: works
> fine. Same goes for the FreeBSD server making a local /ssh::
> connection. .emacs file only contains
>
> (setq tramp-verbose 6)
>
> The connection seems to break just after or during the stty setup:
>
> 13:03:24.201633 tramp-maybe-open-connection (3) # Opening connection for 
> srick@gefjun using ssh...failed
>
> I've put up the entire log of the session on
>
> http://files.hzn.srick.org/web/tramp.debug
>
> Would be great if someone more knowledgeable than me could help trying
> to figure out what is wrong here.

This is bug#39399, see https://debbugs.gnu.org/39399

> Tramp version is the one that is built into the Emacs that ships with
> Debian:
>
> Emacs 27.1 (build 1, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.24.24, cairo version 
> 1.16.0)
> tramp              2.4.3         built-in
>
> Any help appreciated!

According to the ChangeLog, it was fixed in Tramp 2.4.4. Upgrading to
Emacs 27.2 (which contains Tramp 2.4.5) fixes this for you. If this
Emacs version isn't available yet in your distro, you could install the
recent Tramp 2.5.2 from GNU ELPA.

> Regards,
> Steffen

Best regards, Michael.