FATAL ERROR: No valid incoming packet found

[statmobile]

I'm trying to develop interactive in SAS on a remote linux server. I'm using Emacs 24.5.1 (Nt version) and plink 0.64 to connect to my server from my Windows 7 Computer and ESS version 15.09-devel. I open up a shell session on the server, and run

M-x ess-sas-interactive

I have to exit out of that SAS session, because I personally prefer to run my code with

$sas -nodms

Now, everything works fine 95% of the time. C-c C-c, C-c C-b will submit the code to my SAS prompt. However, especially when trying to submit the entire buffer to the SAS prompt my shell session gets killed with the subject message:

519? FATAL ERROR: No valid incoming packet found

Process shell exited abnormally with code 1

Which becomes very frustrating, because it doesn't always occur, so it's hard for me to reproduce, but when it does happen it keeps happening which forces me to edit on the file on the server and batch submit it which is not my ideal way of developing in SAS.

Any thoughts on how to diagnose this? I'll ask you how high if you ask me to jump!

[rsparapa]

Can't you just add "-nodms" to ess-sas-submit-command-options?
But FATAL ERROR is usually a SAS crash in my experience, although, it is admittedly rare.
It usually means that you have something wrong with your installation like Motif is missing
or something.