Re: occasional failure to rename

[knubee]

> Can you make it fail reliably when you do Emacs -Q, open a directory,
> and try to rename a file before doing anything else?

That worked fine.  (Part of the difficulty here it happens enough to
be significant, but not often enough that I notice the pattern of what
I did prior to the problem occurring.)

>  > This does not happen all the time, but when it does the only solution
>  > I have found is to close out of emacs and restart.
>
> Do you have to restart Emacs because it's unresponsive or because it's
> the only way to make renaming work?

Because it is the only way to make renaming work. Everything else
continues to work just fine, as far as I can tell.