#14 Mac OS X 10.6: process hangs

[Marc Heusser]

Running EchoMac 1.16.1 (1.16) under Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard works - but after quitting the programme it leaves running a process named echomac that can easily consume 100% (on a dual processort MBP) CPU power - noticeable by your running fan.
I guess it is not too difficult to fix.
Thank you for another reason not to start Windows on my MBP - and the possibility to get onto Echolink.

[Marc Heusser]

Bug fix for the time being: Start Activity Monitor, enter echolinux in the search box, select the process echolinux and stop the process by clicking on the STOP button after running EchoMac.

[vk6hdx]

I can confirm this bug. On quitting EchoMac 1.16.1 on Mac OS X 10.6.1 there is a process running called 'echolinux' consuming 100% of the CPU. Running a 'kill -9' on the process ID fixes this but not ideal.

[David Doane]

I just compiled the latest trunk from SVN and I did not have an issue with the echolinux bug. Now, I did build with gcc 4.2 and sdk for 10.6 only. So there may be something new in the latest libs. I will try building under 10.5 sdk later. I do not have the default 10.4 installed at this time so that won't happen. I did and still do have issues with the compiled app from sourceforge so I have experienced the issue when running that build.

[Brett Murphy VK3MP]

I intend to statically link the echolinux and echoaudio code into the Echomac application. This should resolve the problem.

[Jim Tittsler]

This should be fixed thanks to Gary Propp in EchoMac 1.16.2 and later.