I'm using 23.x pretests and haven't updated in almost a month so mine is
probably much older than yours.  I am running 6.28b of org which I think you
are too.  Not sure what the issue is.

On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 7:33 PM, Christopher Suckling <suckling@gmail.com>wrote:

> On Tue, 21 Jul 2009 15:15:09 -0400, Greg Newman <greg@20seven.org> wrote:
>
> > Chris,I figured out what my issue was last night.  My org-mode 6.25 was
> > stomping on my git clone of 6.28b.  With that fixed i can get it to
> work...
> > with only links.
> > With notes and remember i get the following error every time; any clues?
> >
> > Process *tramp/scp org-protocol* exited abnormally with code 255
> >
>
> Greg, I did come across this. Unfortunately, I didn't make a note of
> when or where and can't reproduce it this evening.
>
> I have a suspicion, but only a suspicion, that it may have resulted from
> a (now fixed) tramp bug in CVS Emacs. I last complied on 15 July. Could
> this be a possibility?
>
> [There are gaps in the above logic; I can't figure out why org-link
> should work whilst org-note and org-remember bork. I'm clutching at
> straws. No idea why it is so fragile.]
>
> Christopher
>