From: Guido Van Hoecke <guivho@gmail.com>
To: Mark Simpson <verdammelt@gmail.com>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Emacs fails to create frame at boot of OSX
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 2015 15:03:19 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAEySM9FZZMgp2zAMUTTxGLtm19+vvg_brG0HP+_UDJKSkfnwsQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAEySM9Fm+MzUMigwvAiyZST-BYxpOA4ar8qTvbPfPupOqtVf+w@mail.gmail.com>
This problem still occurs, in fact just now after booting with the freshly
installed OSX 10.10.5 and
GNU Emacs 24.5.1 (x86_64-apple-darwin13.4.0, NS apple-appkit-1265.21) of
2015-04-10 on builder10-9.porkrind.org
Anybody?
On 3 November 2014 at 10:44, Guido Van Hoecke <guivho@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Marc
>
> On 26 October 2014 12:56, Mark Simpson <verdammelt@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> >>>>> On Sun, 26 Oct 2014 11:25:23 +0100, Guido Van Hoecke <
>> guivho@gmail.com> said:
>>
>> Guido> When I boot my iMAC all apps that were running at the
>> Guido> previous shutdown are restarted by OSX. So Emacs is also
>> Guido> started, but fails to create its frame. It just hangs without
>> Guido> frame. I have to kill it and restart it. That always
>> Guido> succeeds.
>>
>> Guido -
>>
>> You are not the only person with this problem - I have it too. Also it
>> sometimes happens after simply closing Emacs and trying to restart it,
>>
>
> Fortunately this is utterly rare here, but then, I seldom close Emacs :)
>
>
>
>> without rebooting the machine.
>
>
> Just describing my current workaround, maybe it can help people suffering
> from this problem.
>
> Moved /usr/bin/emacs to /usr/bin/emacs_OSX and created a /usr/bin/emacs
> script with following one-liner:
> open -a /Applications/Emacs.app
>
> Used Automator to create a 'Utilities, Runs Shell Script' Application to
> run following script:
> sleep 60 # wait long enough to ensure the frozen emacs is started
> pids=`/bin/ps -axo pid,command | grep [E]macs | awk '{ print $1 }' |
> tr '\n' ' '`
> if [ "no$pids" != "no" ]; then
> kill -KILL $pids
> fi
> /usr/bin/emacs
> Saved this as killAndRestartTheGodOfEditors.app and added it to my Login
> Items.
> (Note: having `open -a /Applications/Emacs.app` directly in the script
> rather than via my `/usr/bin/emacs` to launch Emacs fails for some reason
> that I have not yet investigated!)
>
> So now the boot-time emacs (which lately always hangs) is killed off and a
> new emacs is started. It's not ideal, but at least I've got a working emacs
> when my iMac finishes booting. And I don't mind the 1 minute wait to ensure
> it doesn't try to kill a not yet running emacs: I usually power on the Mac
> and then only I brew some coffee, go get the newspaper etc etc while it's
> booting anyhow.
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Guido
>
>
> I have been too lazy to investigate or even post here - so thank you for
>> doing so.
>>
>> Ciao
>> Mark
>>
>>
>>
>
prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-08-22 13:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-10-26 10:25 Emacs fails to create frame at boot of OSX Guido Van Hoecke
2014-10-26 11:56 ` Mark Simpson
2014-11-03 9:44 ` Guido Van Hoecke
2015-08-22 13:03 ` Guido Van Hoecke [this message]
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