Re: XCode 6.3 Swirling TechniColor Pizza of Death
Re: XCode 6.3 Swirling TechniColor Pizza of Death
- Subject: Re: XCode 6.3 Swirling TechniColor Pizza of Death
- From: "Glenn L. Austin" <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2015 21:23:13 -0700
> On Apr 12, 2015, at 6:38 PM, Fritz Anderson <email@hidden> wrote:
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> On Apr 12, 2015, at 11:28 AM, Dave <email@hidden> wrote:
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>> I’ve been using XCode 6.3 for about a day and I’ve had all kind of hangs with the dreaded Swirling TechniColor Pizza of Death.
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>> I’ve now got a project that eveytime I open it it hangs XCode. I’ve forced quit XCode and tried to re-open but it hangs each time I try it?
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> A project of mine would make 6.3 beachball whenever it opened. I had a playground loaded-up with sources and a few resources. When I deleted the playground bundle (in the Finder), Xcode was able to reopen the project.
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> There was also an incident wherein Xcode took it upon itself to change the encoding flags on a couple of source files from UTF-8 to UTF-16, without changing the actual encoding (as far as I could tell). That led to outright crashes (and CJK source files). That was half an afternoon spent with Git.
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> And it still scrolls randomly to the bottom of source files if they get above about 200 lines and I’m editing something in the lower half. I find this trying, though I suppose I am getting a lasting education on keeping my source factored.
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> Yes, these should be reported, but my only thought at the time was to rescue my day’s work, not preserving a failable case.
I found many of these problems, and did a little detective work.
Previously in 6.2 I had a bunch of Xcode plug-ins installed via Alcatraz. While many still worked correctly in 6.2, they caused an almost immediate SPOD upon Xcode launch. Removing the offending plug-ins (via binary search) has restored my Xcode to stable again.
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Glenn L. Austin, Computer Wizard and Race Car Driver <><
<http://www.austinsoft.com>
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