How to troubleshoot Aquamacs / Emacs - Problems opening files with TRAMP

Question

How to troubleshoot Aquamacs, or I guess standard Emacs troubleshooting techniques should work with Aquamacs too. In this case i'd want just to raise the logging level, but i'm interested in other possibilities as well as i'm just getting used to Aquamacs/Emacs.

The actual problem i'm having is that on occasion opening files via TRAMP (ie. ssh) Aquamacs just hangs. It seems to be able to get the file from the remote server and run it thru flymake (which doesn't work with tramp) but stops doing anything just before opening the file in a new tab. I don't get any error/debug/info messages. Aquamacs uses very little CPU after this. Only way to continue is Force Quit it and start over.

Answer 1

Use ps to look for the background tasks Emacs has started, in this case ssh -e none REMOTEHOST ... you could probably look for it in Activity Monitor as well I'm sure (and it should be flagged there as a child process of Aquamacs.app too).

vayo:~ chris$ ps a | grep ssh
14687 s002  Ss+    0:00.04 ssh -e none REMOTEHOST
14694 s003  R+     0:00.01 grep ssh
14653 s007  S+     0:00.15 ssh REMOTEHOST

Kill the task Aquamacs has started (with -e none in my case).

vayo:~ chris$ kill 14687

Continue using Aquamacs.

Answer 2

I get a similar hang when using TRAMP. Usually, moving the mouse over the buffer and clicking somewhere within it will un-freeze TRAMP. Not sure why this happens, but you could give that a shot. If that doesn't work, I would just try passing a command through while it is hanging. Does it respond to commands?