[OS X Emacs] aquamacs startup problem

[Christian Kirsch]

> Am 25.03.2015 um 09:16 schrieb Cross, David <d.cross at tcu.edu>:
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> 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.

Same here with an iMac, OSX  10.10.2. starting from an Automator script that is run at login time as a startup item. Aquamacs goes into lala land about 9 out of 10 times. Have to force kill it and start manually by clicking on the icon. That always works.

Christian
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> David R. Cross, Ph.D.
> Professor, Department of Psychology
> Co-Director, Institute of Child Development
> Texas Christian University
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>> On Mar 24, 2015, at 8:56 PM, Peter West <lists at pbw.id.au> wrote:
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>> A thread dump might be useful in these circumstances.
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>> $ ps -ef |grep [q]uamacs
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>> will get you the process id (second field.)
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>> $ kill -QUIT <pid> >dumpfile 2>&1
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>> (I don't know whether the dump goes to STDOUT or STDERR, hence the redirect of STDERR.)
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>> Peter West
>> Jesus bent down and wrote with his finger on the ground.
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>>> On 25 Mar 2015, at 3:28 am, Arthur Ogus <ogus at math.berkeley.edu> wrote:
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>>> I have the same issue if I try to lunch from the finder by clicking the application icon.
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>>>> On Mar 24, 2015, at 10:08 AM, Peter Frings <peter.frings at agfa.com> wrote:
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>>>> Good evening all,
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>>>> 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.
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>>>> 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.
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>>>> I have included a sample of Emacs in its ‘hanging’ state. Maybe it helps.
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>>>> Cheers,
>>>> Peter.
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>>>> [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.
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>>>> <Sample of Emacs 24.4.txt>
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