[TxMt] TextMate crashes and runaway bash processes (still)

[Kjell Olsen]

I've been having an issue (see below) with running any command from  
textmate: whenever I try, textmate seizes up and starts spawning  
unsuccessful processes.

Earlier Allen said it might be a disk format error, and indeed, my  
disk was past the point of being repairable by Disk Utility. I wiped  
and reformatted - only to still have the same error, but neither disk  
utility nor fsck finds anything wrong with the disk.

While TM is spinning its gears (and spawning numerous bash  
processes), anything I try to do in terminal gives me "-bash: fork:  
Resource temporarily unavailable". Force TM to Quit and I get fork  
back, so I can kill the bash processes and bring my CPU load back  
down from 100%. I haven't seen anything show up in the console.

I keep up with the most current builds, am running on 10.4.3 (but the  
problem occurred earlier with 10.4.2) on a 1.5ghz powerbook with  
768MB RAM.

Any ideas?

-kjell

On Sep 15, 2005, at 8:50 AM, Kjell Olsen wrote:

> A few days ago the create new file button in the drawer stopped  
> working. Whenever I tried to create a new file, TM crashed. Then  
> whenever I'd go into a terminal to fiddle, I'd get some error  
> (sorry to so vague) about resource fork not being available.
>
> I would force crash textmate, and killall bash, and all would work  
> again - but each time I tried to create a file (I sure hope it  
> works this time...), I had to do it all over again.
>
> Last night I made the same error, textmate crashed, but I never got  
> to killing the runaway bash process. I woke up and my computer fan  
> was just screaming, a quick top showed a runaway bash process going  
> at 75% cpu and fifty others! Here's a snip:
>
> --------------------------------
> kjell    26675  74.2  0.1    27880    900  ??  R     1:09AM  
> 430:19.31 /bin/bash -c touch "$TM_NEW_FILE"
> kjell    26571   0.4  0.1    27880    980  p3  S    12:57AM    
> 0:00.12 -bash
> kjell    26606   0.0  0.1    27880    764  ??  S     1:09AM    
> 0:00.04 /bin/bash -c touch "$TM_NEW_FILE"
> kjell    26608   0.0  0.1    27880    508  ??  S     1:09AM    
> 0:00.01 /bin/bash -c touch "$TM_NEW_FILE"
> [35 more like the last two...]
> --------------------------------
>
> What could be going wrong? I'd love to have it fixed, if possible.  
> The problem has reared it's ugly head with both beta1.17 and r421,  
> and is getting to be a real pain. Anyone have an idea what's wrong?
>
> Kjell [http://station11.net]