problems with emacs (or tramp) on FC5 ?

[Steve Juranich]

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.
> 
> Any ideas ?
> 
> cheers Chris
> 

I used TRAMP for a while, but I made the switch to sshfs.  It's behaved a
lot better for me.  I'd recommend looking into that unless you're married
to TRAMP for some reason.

-- 
Steve Juranich
Tucson, AZ
USA