I have /tmp on my root partition and a separate partition for /home. When trying to close an Emacs session which is using org-mode, I get this error:
move-file-to-trash: Non-regular file: Is a directory, /tmp/babel-XXXXXXX (where XXXXXXX are random characters). I tracked down the problem to org-babel-remove-temporary-directory which ob.el adds to kill-emacs-hook. It tries to remove the temporary directory using delete-directory, which in turn tries to move the directory (by renaming) into trash, which is in my home directory. Here's the debugger traceback: Debugger entered--Lisp error: (file-error "Non-regular file" "Is a directory" "/tmp/babel-4893rR1") rename-file("/tmp/babel-4893rR1" "/home/akaihola/.local/share/Trash/files/babel-4893rR1_4893HqQ") move-file-to-trash("/tmp/babel-4893rR1") delete-directory("/tmp/babel-4893rR1") (progn (mapc (lambda ... ...) (directory-files org-babel-temporary-directory ... "^\\([^.]\\|\\.\\([^.]\\|\\..\\)\\).*")) (delete-directory org-babel-temporary-directory)) (if (and (boundp ...) (file-exists-p org-babel-temporary-directory)) (progn (mapc ... ...) (delete-directory org-babel-temporary-directory))) (when (and (boundp ...) (file-exists-p org-babel-temporary-directory)) (mapc (lambda ... ...) (directory-files org-babel-temporary-directory ... "^\\([^.]\\|\\.\\([^.]\\|\\..\\)\\).*")) (delete-directory org-babel-temporary-directory)) org-babel-remove-temporary-directory() eval((org-babel-remove-temporary-directory)) eval-last-sexp-1(nil) eval-last-sexp(nil) call-interactively(eval-last-sexp nil nil) I added this to my ~/.emacs.d/init.el: (custom-set-variables '(temporary-file-directory "/home/akaihola/tmp/")) and closing Emacs works correctly again. However, since my init.el is part of emacs-starter-kit which I update frequently, I'd prefer not to modify that file. Unfortunately the customization hook emacs-starter-kit provides (~/.emacs.d/custom.el) is loaded too late to affect the temporary directory. I'm running emacs-snapshot 1:20090909-1 in Ubuntu 10.10. Looks like this is really an Emacs bug and is already fixed: http://groups.google.com/group/gnu.emacs.bug/browse_thread/thread/0446b8684a8ef504 _______________________________________________ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Please use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode