problems while using pexpect: pexcept.TIMEOUT always

[R. David Murray]

Phoe6 <orsenthil at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have been trying to use pexpect and I am failing with
> pexpect.TIMEOUT for all my attempts. In order to troubleshoot, I
> decided to go with simplest possible one.
> 
[...]
> 
> Can someone help me what I am doing wrong here?
> Why is not working for such a simple thing as ssh to my localhost.?

I would suggest using the 'setlog' method of child to get
more debugging information from pexpect.  I've found that the
best way to diagnose the source of a timeout.

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