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: Mon, 3 Nov 2014 10:44:53 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAEySM9Fm+MzUMigwvAiyZST-BYxpOA4ar8qTvbPfPupOqtVf+w@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2lho39h97.fsf@gmail.com>
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
>
>
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-11-03 9:44 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 [this message]
2015-08-22 13:03 ` Guido Van Hoecke
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