[OS X Emacs] aquamacs startup problem

[Peter West]

This might have something to do with the startup environment.

Apple stuffed around with the environment (via launchd and launchctl) in the Yosemite release (as well as completely breaking dig and nslookup and who knows what else.) Bravo Apple!

The really irritating thing is that they got it working very well in Mavericks.  It was possible (with some fiddling about) to set up the bash environment to match the background user process environment from which GUI apps are run.  Something about that has changed with Yosemite.

For instance, I have GO_ROOT and GO_PATH set up in both environments (or so I thought.)  If I start IntelliJ Idea, the Go support looks for these environment variables.  No problem.  However, if I shut down or log out with Idea running, on restart Yosemite will restart the IDE, and that process throws errors about those envvars not being defined.

For background on my struggles with PATH, see http://codepulsive.blogspot.com.au/2013/11/setting-environment-variables-in-os-x.html

Peter West
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> On 25 Mar 2015, at 12:51 pm, Christian Kirsch <ck at bru6.de> wrote:
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>> 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.
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> 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.
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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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>> d.cross at tcu.edu
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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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