Disappearing text

[ackerleytng]

I'm using Emacs and tramp to edit files on a virtual machine. The virtual 
machine is running in the same machine as Emacs.

I'm editing c and after a while entire sections would disappear. Sometimes, all 
strings would disappear, other times, comments. By disappear I mean that the 
everything highlighted in that color will share the same color as the 
background. Highlighting that text reveals it in a colour similar to the 
background color.

When I restart Emacs by killing the server and re opening the file, the problem 
goes away, but will come back.

I'm using Emacs 24.4 on Ubuntu with the solarized dark color scheme.

I'm not really sure what other information might be useful. I do this on 
another machine with the same setup and it's fine there. In fact, when moving 
to this machine, I copied .emacs.d and .emacs over. Is that a good way of 
migrating all settings?