On Thu, Jun 01, 2006 at 10:10:25PM +0100, Chris Jones wrote: > Hi, > > Every since I have upgraded to FC5, I have had problems with emacs. What I > observed is after a short time using emacs, the pocess emacs-x goes awol, > using 100% cpu. If I go back to my emacs window I get the message > > Opening output file: no such file or > directory, /usr/src/build/719136-i386/BUILD/emacs-21.4/src/#RichPixelPositionMonitor.cpp# > > where RichPixelPositionMonitor.cpp is the file I am currently editting. > > One other possibly important point - I am using the tramp lisp package in > order to open remote files via ssh (see > http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/tramp) > > Previously, on FC4, I had absolutely no problems with emacs+tramp. It worked > perfectly. The problem only occurred once I upgraded to FC5. Judging from the file name, I'd say Emacs is trying to create a backup file. I've seen a similar problem with tramp on and off for several years. Emacs tries to save a local backup copy of a remote file to a similar location, and for obvious reasons fails. I think it's a tramp bug, but haven't gone hunting for it. As a workaround, I suppose you could build the directory and give it appropriate permissions, but I haven't tried it. I usually just wait until Emacs gives up trying to create the file, and save work files often. -- Charles Curley /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ / Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email http://www.charlescurley.com / \ No M$ Word docs in email Key fingerprint = CE5C 6645 A45A 64E4 94C0 809C FFF6 4C48 4ECD DFDB
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