[OS X Emacs] aquamacs startup problem

[Cross, David]

I have the same problem ... trying to launch from the sidebar, hangs about 40% of the time, have to force quit ... MacBook Pro (17 inch, late 2011, 2.4 GHz, 8 GB), OS X Yosemite (10.10.2) ... didn't have this problem before I upgraded to Yosemite.

Cheers

David R. Cross, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Psychology
Co-Director, Institute of Child Development
Texas Christian University
Fort Worth, Texas 76129
d.cross at tcu.edu












> On Mar 24, 2015, at 8:56 PM, Peter West <lists at pbw.id.au> wrote:
> 
> A thread dump might be useful in these circumstances.
> 
> $ ps -ef |grep [q]uamacs
> 
> will get you the process id (second field.)
> 
> $ kill -QUIT <pid> >dumpfile 2>&1
> 
> (I don't know whether the dump goes to STDOUT or STDERR, hence the redirect of STDERR.)
> 
> Peter West
> Jesus bent down and wrote with his finger on the ground.
> 
>> On 25 Mar 2015, at 3:28 am, Arthur Ogus <ogus at math.berkeley.edu> wrote:
>> 
>> I have the same issue if I try to lunch from the finder by clicking the application icon.
>> 
>>> On Mar 24, 2015, at 10:08 AM, Peter Frings <peter.frings at agfa.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Good evening all,
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Same thing here, with Emacs for OSX 24.4, OSX 10.9.5, on a 2.8GHz quad-core Mac Pro mid 2010. I’m using the Prelude start-up from Bozhidar Batsov.
>>> 
>>> Emacs often hangs when starting via Quicksilver[1]. I often have to try 2 or 3 times before Emacs appears. When it hangs, it takes about 50% CPU. The “Emacs” menu appears, but no visible window and no response. If you switch to another app, you can’t switch back via Cmd-Tab or by clicking its icon in the dock. The only thing you can do is to force-kill it.
>>> 
>>> I have included a sample of Emacs in its ‘hanging’ state. Maybe it helps.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Cheers,
>>> Peter.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> [1] I have not made comparisons with other ways of launching. Years ago I always used the command line to launch emacs, and I don’t recall any hanging. However, lots of things have changed since then, so it may not be relevant.
>>> 
>>> <Sample of Emacs 24.4.txt>
>>> 
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