From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Hang on startup on OS X (GUI only) Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2015 22:50:45 -0400 Message-ID: References: <5c617979-7483-48fe-a279-eaf91c5c86f1@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1444791142 27324 80.91.229.3 (14 Oct 2015 02:52:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2015 02:52:22 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Oct 14 04:52:07 2015 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 1ZmCAh-0005Mx-30 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 14 Oct 2015 04:52:07 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40270 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZmCAg-0002K5-5m for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 13 Oct 2015 22:52:06 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:60130) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZmC9i-0001bK-Ul for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Oct 2015 22:51:07 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZmC9f-0005sr-OV for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Oct 2015 22:51:06 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:49720) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZmC9f-0005sj-HA for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Oct 2015 22:51:03 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZmC9c-0004C1-Rn for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Oct 2015 04:51:01 +0200 Original-Received: from 69-196-161-21.dsl.teksavvy.com ([69.196.161.21]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 14 Oct 2015 04:51:00 +0200 Original-Received: from monnier by 69-196-161-21.dsl.teksavvy.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 14 Oct 2015 04:51:00 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 14 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 69-196-161-21.dsl.teksavvy.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:f1EKYaxHBST4pki3TASFxZh6+Bw= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 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:107630 Archived-At: > I'm long had the same problem with a variety of different Emacs builds > (various builds from from http://emacsformacosx.com as well as a couple of > homebrew builds). It was not always this way, but I can't put my finger on > the exact change that triggered this behavior. Currently running OS > X 10.10.5 on an early 2013 13" MBP with 16 GB RAM. I would love to know the > solution to this problem. AFAIK it's a race-condition that shows up only since some version of OSX and which is fixed in Emacs's "master" branch. I suggest you try a snapshot build of that development code to confirm that it fixes it for you. Stefan