Re: Hang on startup on OS X (GUI only)

[Guido Van Hoecke <guivho@gmail.com>]

Hi,

Currently using (since November 23, 2015) nightly build
GNU Emacs 25.1.50.1 (x86_64-apple-darwin13.4.0, NS appkit-1265.21 Version
10.9.5 (Build 13F1134))
 of 2015-11-23
obtained from http://emacsformacosx.com/

It never did hang nor crash on me (y)

Kudos to all developers :)

Guido

On 20 February 2016 at 13:45, <enrique.manjavacas@gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>