From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Guido Van Hoecke Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Hang on startup on OS X (GUI only) Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2016 18:02:38 +0100 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1455987813 31291 80.91.229.3 (20 Feb 2016 17:03:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2016 17:03:33 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Feb 20 18:03:26 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 1aXAwH-0004A7-OX for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 20 Feb 2016 18:03:25 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34230 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aXAwH-0005HY-Ac for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 20 Feb 2016 12:03:25 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:46487) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aXAw4-0005Fb-5u for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Feb 2016 12:03:13 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aXAw2-0007yr-3x for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Feb 2016 12:03:12 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-wm0-x229.google.com ([2a00:1450:400c:c09::229]:35215) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aXAw1-0007y2-S1 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Feb 2016 12:03:10 -0500 Original-Received: by mail-wm0-x229.google.com with SMTP id c200so116557725wme.0 for ; Sat, 20 Feb 2016 09:03:08 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:cc :content-type; bh=yLdIVrKKnsG9syUm4FbRUkmZsp9zCu+OXXZAbLAMeg8=; b=QSlGAf6nIVsC13uEGH47dhEsWhqfqNrqR3tHsISdomFYxcLnMC5MQQeejRxrWIn1EP eeOeh8bJXW/c5G9VIOJqOP4pwE8ZAfXIt9RKROTBsgxRvpkj8p9sv6ysgN8Zc1uYODAR 1z+K3Kds0Lv+Ggz8dJOMeArqDbe7TSMNbwMkQfuRpxYynZA4cfgQ/hiGbHgcpda6ycNO JNw9O3eb2xmsxd/zfzt0YbbUjvy3poWQ1HGu3NRU+542wGpU2KkxuK3BDobnUQZkabX1 YZuTijO3sr9NZLotDvcoh72o7lDjn3yLypb3QnrmcPCI5ykRI3kpkcphDx5erPOnz00K eXag== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date :message-id:subject:cc:content-type; bh=yLdIVrKKnsG9syUm4FbRUkmZsp9zCu+OXXZAbLAMeg8=; b=LujjvC/xHPHnLq4pEh2mM8HYIXtD9ieTAm8U9d2NCm+8IsjKDypeL/cAVf5Yg9qSky AIN1IoTPR40kl/OC1eqszQOPa/5+W7kMqjK76+wrSPtDmxGMgh5/IIn5SuFO/6G7kHWV GELf2EDtgxzykaFRWr1omgTNX+5A5GH8F1exTlC7OlOw+jWKZEuhC9xftqknKgIAn4g6 +m88V42ohV/7IALsBLoz0PbMFLWBOl4TKaaclVwpH9P9hZmbVp+r8hMpKt+gtNZc3Xb4 s6V5NayKF7kGvDObkD/AB3o78W5dGBKzuH3rqK4Yjztc43b+paa9vAQYXENOry0NcgEr ghlA== X-Gm-Message-State: AG10YOTeZqM+21DRqsZWxtRNsxN3z3X3JgXtdhQ4oiGgMgnOo7/XGLCrVBJeA+eVWRi6bkI2bEEzKDiZwa6eBA== X-Received: by 10.194.58.47 with SMTP id n15mr19353980wjq.155.1455987788252; Sat, 20 Feb 2016 09:03:08 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.194.81.164 with HTTP; Sat, 20 Feb 2016 09:02:38 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2a00:1450:400c:c09::229 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.14 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:109224 Archived-At: 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, 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 >