Terminal.app

[Eugene]

Besides the usual wiping of ~/Library/Application Support/Terminal/*
and ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.Terminal.plist, have you checked
your login scripts to see if they are invoking something goofy?  The
AEProcessAppleEvent invocation... AppleScript?


On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 04:58:25AM CDT, LuKreme <kremels at kreme.com> wrote:
> 
> Sigh.  I'm getting to the point where I think a reboot might be in order.
>
> Terminal.app hangs on launch.  It never crashes, it just sits there. 
> Nothing shows up in the Console "All Messages" until I force quit it.
>
> 09-Mar-08 03:38:08 com.apple.launchd[368] 
> ([0x0-0x338b287f].com.apple.Terminal[3208]) Exited: Terminated
>
> This started when I was trying to port upgrade installed (or something like 
> that).
>
> I took a sample of it, but I don't understand it. This is with defaults 
> (10s/1ms)
>
> Analysis of sampling Terminal (pid 3634) every 1 millisecond
> Call graph:
>   8306 Thread_2503
>    8306 0x4102e
>     8306 NSApplicationMain
>      8306 -[NSApplication run]
>       8306 -[NSApplication nextEventMatchingMask:untilDate:inMode:dequeue:]
>        8306 _DPSNextEvent
>         8306 AEProcessAppleEvent
>          8306 aeProcessAppleEvent
>           8306 dispatchEventAndSendReply(AEDesc const*, AEDesc*)
>            8306 aeDispatchAppleEvent(AEDesc const*, AEDesc*, unsigned long, 
> unsigned char*)
>             8306 _NSAppleEventManagerGenericHandler
>              8306 -[NSAppleEventManager 
> dispatchRawAppleEvent:withRawReply:handlerRefCon:]
>               8306 -[NSApplication(NSAppleEventHandling) 
> _handleCoreEvent:withReplyEvent:]
>                8306 -[NSApplication(NSAppleEventHandling) _handleAEOpen:]
>                 8306 -[NSApplication _sendFinishLaunchingNotification]
>                  8306 -[NSApplication _postDidFinishNotification]
>                   8306 -[NSNotificationCenter postNotificationName:object:]
>                    8306 -[NSNotificationCenter 
> postNotificationName:object:userInfo:]
>                     8306 _CFXNotificationPostNotification
>                      8306 __CFXNotificationPost
>                       8306 _nsnote_callback
>                        8306 0x32c9
>                         8306 0x5d7f
>                          8306 0x5ebd
>                           8306 0x70c2
>                            8306 0x71b8
>                             8306 0x761f
>                              8306 0x9036
>                               8306 forkpty
>                                8306 openpty
>                                 8236 ioctl
>                                  8236 ioctl
>                                 70 _sysenter_trap
>                                  70 _sysenter_trap
>   8306 Thread_2603
>    8306 thread_start
>     8306 _pthread_start
>      8306 __NSThread__main__
>       8306 -[NSThread main]
>        8306 read$UNIX2003
>         8306 read$UNIX2003
>
> Total number in stack (recursive counted multiple, when >=5):
>
> Sort by top of stack, same collapsed (when >= 5):
>     read$UNIX2003    8306
>     ioctl    8236
>     _sysenter_trap    70


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