

I booted to the Mac OS restore screen (Command-R) and reinstalled the OS, but I'm still having the same problems.Ĭan anyone suggest some next steps for resolving this?Įxamples of affected apps: Finder, iTunes, Time Machine (status shows "Preparing Backups" indefinitely, and Time Machine control panel hangs when launching), Photoshop CS6, Transmit, Super DuperĮxamples of unaffected apps: Mail, Safari, BBEdit, Dreamweaver CS6, Xcode 5-6, Android Studio Once an app hangs and I force-quit it, I can never launch that app again until I restart the computer. *43 ? (mach_kernel + 4080224) Ĥ3 start_wqthread + 30 (libsystem_pthread.dylib) Ĥ3 _workq_kernreturn + 10 (libsystem_kernel.dylib) *1 ipc_mqueue_receive_continue + 0 (mach_kernel) Ĥ3 _select + 10 (libsystem_kernel.dylib) *42 ipc_mqueue_receive_continue + 0 (mach_kernel) ġ _CFRunLoopRun + 2130 (CoreFoundation) ġ _CFRunLoopDoSource1 + 523 (CoreFoundation) ġ _CFRUNLOOP_IS_CALLING_OUT_TO_A_SOURCE1_PERFORM_FUNCTION_ + 53 (CoreFoundation) ġ _CFMachPortPerform + 440 (CoreFoundation) ġ MessageHandler(_CFMachPort*, void*, long, void*) + 52 (HIToolbox) ġ PullEventsFromWindowServerOnConnection(unsigned int, unsigned char, _CFMachPortBoost*) + 99 (HIToolbox) ġ CGEventCreateNextEvent + 39 (CoreGraphics) ġ CGSGetNextEventRecordInternal + 84 (CoreGraphics) ġ CGSSnarfAndDispatchDatagrams + 167 (CoreGraphics) ġ _CGSGetPortStreamInline + 127 (CoreGraphics) ġ mach_msg_trap + 10 (libsystem_kernel.dylib) *43 ipc_mqueue_receive_continue + 0 (mach_kernel) Ĥ3 _NSEventThread + 283 (AppKit) Ĥ2 _CFRunLoopRun + 1393 (CoreFoundation) Ĥ2 _CFRunLoopServiceMachPort + 169 (CoreFoundation) Ĥ2 mach_msg_trap + 10 (libsystem_kernel.dylib) *43 ? (mach_kernel + 3960080) Ĥ3 thread_start + 34 (libsystem_pthread.dylib) Ĥ3 _pthread_start + 130 (libsystem_pthread.dylib) Ĥ3 _pthread_body + 144 (libsystem_pthread.dylib) Ĥ3 _NSThread_main_ + 1426 (Foundation) Ĥ3 - + 45 (Foundation) Ĥ3 + + 381 (Foundation) Ĥ3 _CFRunLoopRun + 1393 (CoreFoundation) Ĥ3 _CFRunLoopServiceMachPort + 169 (CoreFoundation) Ĥ3 mach_msg_trap + 10 (libsystem_kernel.dylib) Thread 0x1778a6 DispatchQueue 2702260908 priority 48Ĥ3 _dispatch_mgr_thread + 52 (libdispatch.dylib) Ĥ3 kevent64 + 10 (libsystem_kernel.dylib) *43 machine_switch_context + 354 (mach_kernel) *43 thread_block_reason + 204 (mach_kernel) *43 lck_rw_lock_shared_gen + 118 (mach_kernel) Path: /Applications/SuperDuper!.app/Contents/MacOS/SuperDuper!Ĥ3 NSApplicationMain + 1165 (AppKit) Ĥ3 - + 727 (AppKit) Ĥ3 - + 119 (AppKit) Ĥ3 _DPSNextEvent + 1602 (AppKit) Ĥ3 _BlockUntilNextEventMatchingListInModeWithFilter + 92 (HIToolbox) Ĥ3 ReceiveNextEventCommon + 163 (HIToolbox) Ĥ3 RunCurrentEventLoopInMode + 259 (HIToolbox) Ĥ3 CFRunLoopRunInMode + 123 (CoreFoundation) Ĥ3 CFRunLoopRunSpecific + 394 (CoreFoundation) Ĥ3 _CFRunLoopRun + 1779 (CoreFoundation) Ĥ3 _CFRunLoopDoTimers + 349 (CoreFoundation) Ĥ3 _CFRunLoopDoTimer + 1395 (CoreFoundation) Ĥ3 _CFRUNLOOP_IS_CALLING_OUT_TO_A_TIMER_CALLBACK_FUNCTION_ + 22 (CoreFoundation) Ĥ3 _NSFireDelayedPerform + 422 (Foundation) Ĥ3 FSPathMakeRef + 47 (CarbonCore) Ĥ3 FSPathMakeRefInternal(unsigned char const*, unsigned long, unsigned long, FSRef*, unsigned char*) + 130 (CarbonCore) Ĥ3 PathGetObjectInfo(char const*, unsigned long, unsigned long, short*, unsigned long*, unsigned long*, char*, unsigned long*, unsigned char*, unsigned long*) + 203 (CarbonCore) Ĥ3 _getattrlist + 10 (libsystem_kernel.dylib) Note that the "duration" shown in the crash report is 4.44 seconds, but the application was actually showing the spinning beach ball for about 10 minutes before I quit it: Date/Time: 21:05:47 -0700 When I force-quit an application that hung after it finished launching, I get a crash report like this, from Super Duper. When I force-quit an application that hung before it finished launching, I don't get a crash report, and a line like this is written to the system log: Failed to write crash history to file:///Users/arlo/Library/Application%20Support/CrashReporter/_ist.` Nothing is written to the system log when the applications hang. Other applications are totally unaffected and work with no problems. Other apps will launch and run for a while, then suddenly hang when I am using them, showing the spinning beach ball icon indefinitely. Some app icons will bounce in the Dock for a few minutes, then stop bouncing and they will show "Application Not Responding" when I right-click the icon. Then I updated to Mac OS 10.9.5, and I immediately started having problems with applications hanging, usually while launching. It has been working very reliably, only needing a restart every few months. Two years ago I upgraded the hard drive to an SSD.


I have a four year old MacBook Pro with 8 GB of memory.
