[OS X Emacs] Aquamacs Emacs 1.4rc1

[Joseph C. Slater PE, PhD]

On May 29, 2008, at 3:21 PM, skip at pobox.com wrote:

>>> 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:
>
<snip>

I'm running it on 5.3 without that. However, after installing it I had  
to reboot. I have no explanation, but perhaps a reboot and disk repair?