problems with emacs (or tramp) on FC5 ?

[Eric Brunson]

Steve Juranich wrote:
> 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.
>
>   
I imagine you'd have similar problems since the crux of the issue is 
that emacs can't write its backup to the directory you're editing in.  
Nothing intrinsic to tramp at all.