From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: enrique.manjavacas@gmail.com Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Hang on startup on OS X (GUI only) Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2016 04:45:33 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1455974155 21561 80.91.229.3 (20 Feb 2016 13:15:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2016 13:15:55 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Feb 20 14:15:49 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aX7Nx-0007GB-62 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 20 Feb 2016 14:15:45 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:32792 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aX7Nw-0000Ty-Hl for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 20 Feb 2016 08:15:44 -0500 X-Received: by 10.182.56.233 with SMTP id d9mr17128666obq.2.1455972334118; Sat, 20 Feb 2016 04:45:34 -0800 (PST) X-Received: by 10.50.8.74 with SMTP id p10mr31111iga.8.1455972334096; Sat, 20 Feb 2016 04:45:34 -0800 (PST) Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.glorb.com!ok5no3928269igc.0!news-out.google.com!kr2ni1781igb.0!nntp.google.com!hb3no7485139igb.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=143.169.185.169; posting-account=B35wtwoAAADGvLeHjFRnCdpkhPf-ZGsg Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 143.169.185.169 User-Agent: G2/1.0 Injection-Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2016 12:45:34 +0000 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:216930 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sat, 20 Feb 2016 08:15:26 -0500 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:109223 Archived-At: On Sunday, February 15, 2015 at 9:43:22 PM UTC+1, Elliott Slaughter wrote: > (If there is a better place to direct this (e.g. a bug tracker) please let > me know.) > > Emacs often hangs on startup on Mac OS X. The hangs are non-deterministic > but frequent (25-50% of runs), consume 100% of CPU, and only happen when > starting Emacs.app with the GUI enabled, never when running in text mode on > the command-line. I have reproduced the hangs with an empty .emacs file and > after having completely removed .emacs.d. > > I am using Emacs 24.4 from http://emacsformacosx.com/ , but notably, this > bug has been reported multiple times by users of Homebrew (who either > compile from source or download a binary from Homebrew's own servers): > https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/issues/36737 > https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/issues/25003 > > I have attached the start of a log from Mac OS X's built-in crash reporter. > I can provide the rest of the report as well, if that would be helpful. (It > contains various stack traces sampled from the unresponsive process.) > > Note that while the trace below says that I've installed Emacs from > homebrew, this is the cask version, which is just a proxy for the > emacsformacosx.com version, which is not the same as the Homebrew proper > version (which was the focus of the bug reports above), which is compiled > from source. > > Thanks in advance! > > =========== > > Date/Time: 2015-02-15 11:08:40 -0800 > OS Version: 10.10.2 (Build 14C109) > Architecture: x86_64 > Report Version: 21 > > Command: Emacs-x86_64-10_9 > Path: > /opt/homebrew-cask/*/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/Emacs-x86_64-10_9 > Version: ??? (???) > Parent: launchd [1] > PID: 39366 > > Event: hang > Duration: 4.00s (process was unresponsive for 176 seconds before > sampling) > Steps: 41 (100ms sampling interval) > > Hardware model: MacBookPro8,2 > Active cpus: 8 > > Fan speed: 4362 rpm > > [... file continues for about 1 MB of text ...] > > -- > Elliott Slaughter > > "Don't worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to > predict the future is to invent it." - Alan Kay Just for the record, I was having the same problem, but it seems to have gone away compiling the patched version in this commit: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/?h=emacs-25&id=0392e241b844487261d4dfcccc9a442793e0a868 This was also meant as a solution for the bug report posted also in this conversation by Elliott Slaughter: http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=19879 notice that the mentioned patch is for Emacs25 best