Re: Starting up Messsages app freezes and hogs CPU.

From	Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.mac.apps, comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject	Re: Starting up Messsages app freezes and hogs CPU.
Date	2015-08-21 00:45 +0000
Organization	People for the Ethical Treatment of Pirates
Message-ID	<d3nakgF9hpdU2@mid.individual.net> (permalink)
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On 2015-08-20, Ant <ANTant@zimage.com> wrote:
> Hi.
>
> My several days old updated Mac OS X v10.10.5's Messages no longer 
> launches. It freezes with a spinning pinwheel ball. Terminal's top -u 
> command shows Messages hogging CPU. I tried rebooting Mac OS X, and it 
> did not help. I tried renaming my ~/user name/Library/Messages and 
> relaunching Messages app, but it said rebuilding database that goes 
> forever (no CPU usage this time).  It was working earlier today and 
> yesterday.
>
> What's wrong and how do I fix it? I'm OK to reset my Messages back to 
> defaults since I just started using it and have no contacts. The only 
> thing was to delete defaults and send and receive a few text messages to 
> mobile phone numbers.
>
> Thank you in advance. :)

What messages are logged to the console and system logs when you try to
launch Messages?

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Starting up Messsages app freezes and hogs CPU. ANTant@zimage.com (Ant) - 2015-08-20 14:11 -0500
  Re: Starting up Messsages app freezes and hogs CPU. Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-08-21 00:45 +0000
    Re: Starting up Messsages app freezes and hogs CPU. ANTant@zimage.com (Ant) - 2015-08-21 13:40 -0500
      Re: Starting up Messsages app freezes and hogs CPU. Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-08-21 19:25 +0000
        Re: Starting up Messsages app freezes and hogs CPU. ANTant@zimage.com (Ant) - 2015-08-21 15:21 -0500
  Re: Starting up Messsages app freezes and hogs CPU. ANTant@zimage.com (Ant) - 2015-08-21 17:19 -0500

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