[OS X Emacs] Aquamacs Emacs 1.4rc1

[skip at pobox.com]

    >> On May 24, 2008, at 6:21 PM, David Reitter wrote:

    >> Aquamacs Emacs 1.4 Release Candidate 1 is on our servers for you to  
    >> download, check out and tinker with.
    >> Of course we'd like your feedback on aquamacs-bugs at aquamacs.org.  To  
    >> report bugs, please use Help -> Send Bug Report.
    >> 
    >> http://aquamacs.org/download.shtml

Alas, I don't get that far.  I installed it, copied it into /Applications
then ran it.  It shows up in my dock, and if I select it from there my menu
bar gets a single unresponsive Aquamacs menu item.  There is a shell process
using an entire core.  According to ps it is:

    skip     13177  93.4  0.0   600172    536   ??  R     1:58PM   4:49.82 /bin/sh /usr/libexec/path_helper -s

I went away to a meeting, came back an hour or so later and Aquamacs had
popped up.  I killed it and restarted it from my dock.  Same symptoms:

    Processes:  86 total, 4 running, 1 stuck, 81 sleeping... 264 threads                                                                               14:15:47
    Load Avg:  1.39,  1.05,  0.93    CPU usage: 58.70% user,  4.88% sys, 36.42% idle
    SharedLibs: num =    8, resident =   72M code, 1840K data, 4860K linkedit.
    MemRegions: num = 10384, resident =  377M +   21M private,  156M shared.
    PhysMem:  298M wired,  690M active,   89M inactive, 1125M used, 1947M free.
    VM: 7107M + 376M   318974(0) pageins, 0(0) pageouts

      PID COMMAND      %CPU   TIME   #TH #PRTS #MREGS RPRVT  RSHRD  RSIZE  VSIZE
    13698 sh          97.2%  0:58.90   1     8     18  100K   744K   536K    18M
      297 firefox-bi  20.1% 90:30.67   7   148    566   44M+   23M    86M+  312M+
    13701 top          1.9%  0:01.25   1    18     29 1072K   200K  1668K    18M
      151 WindowServ   1.8%  3:31.70   5   302    805   14M+   43M    49M-  267M-
    ...

I let that run for a little bit, got tired of waiting, then killed both.
Restarted again.  Same behavior.  If I run /usr/libexec/path_helper -s from
a shell prompt it returns "prompt"ly.

I'm running Mac OS X 10.5.3, just upgraded this morning.

Any ideas?

Thanks,

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Skip Montanaro - skip at pobox.com - http://www.webfast.com/~skip/
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