<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2015 06:54:58 -0400<br class="">From: David Reitter <<a href="mailto:david.reitter@gmail.com" class="">david.reitter@gmail.com</a>><br class="">Subject: Re: [OS X Emacs] aquamacs startup problem<br class=""><br class="">On Mar 23, 2015, at 5:05 AM, Marc Shapiro -- at work <<a href="mailto:marc.shapiro@acm.org" class="">marc.shapiro@acm.org</a>> wrote:<br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">I have the same problem. Starting up Aquatics will either bring up a window or hang forever, apparently randomly.<br class=""><br class="">A couple of observations, which may or may not be relevant:<br class="">- Hang occurs also without startup files.<br class="">- The same problem occurs with ordinary Emacs.<br class="">- Occurs extremely frequently on a MacMini 2011, hardly ever on a MacMini 2014. In other words, seems to be related to the computer's speed (a timeout somewhere?).<br class="">- Seems to occur more frequently on a MacMini with multiple screens, or if I move window focus.<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">This is valuable.<br class=""></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div>Thanks David for looking into this.<div class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">But, what is necessary to reproduce it?<br class=""></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Nothing, it's random, as far as I can tell.</div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">Are there settings, procedures that are different, or perhaps a different OS version, on of the Mac Minis?<br class=""></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div>All running 10.10.2. My MacBook Air, also under 10.10.2, does not exhibit the problem.<br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">Does deleting Library/Preferences/org.gnu.Aquamacs.plist help?<br class=""></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I tried starting with the -q option; it didn't help. Doesn't this ignore all preferences including the plist? </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Attached is a screenshot of the contents of my ~//Library/Preferences/org.gnu.Aquamacs.plist file. Nothing notable. There is no /Library/Preferences/org.gnu.Aquamacs.plist.</div><div class=""><img apple-inline="yes" id="2D3AE580-BBF0-4CCD-8F5D-7C12BC7889E8" height="356" width="599" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:7BF667AF-E871-429D-BCC9-36A4A7DF62E9@rsr.lip6.fr" class=""></div><div class="">I can test this if you wish but it would require taking my old MacMini out from storage... Please let me know if it's worthwhile. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">(This Aquamacs problem is one of the reasons why I switched to a newer machine.)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Marc</div><br class=""></div></body></html>