Aptana sometimes hangs on Mac OSX after workspace change

Question

I love Aptana and use it heavily, however I started to have weird and annoying problems - every now and then Aptana process hangs in the background and I can't start it or kill the process - only solution I found is to restart my Mac. I use MacBook Pro with Mavericks on it, and I have latest Aptana release. I also use SVN plugin created for Eclipse studio. The first symptom I have is another Aptana icon appearing on my Dock bar, one is permanently present there and suddenly another one appears - I think it happens on Workspace change. I can no longer switch to Aptana using original icon, I have to use the one that appeared afterwards. After I quit Aptana instance represented by the new icon, I can't activate it any more and I have an Aptana process that I can't kill, and it won't show if I type ps -A in terminal.

If anybody has any clue on how this happens, I'd like to avoid it - just don't tell me not to switch my workspaces since I depend on it - I'm a professional web developer working for several companies and workspaces are a way to organise my work

If anyone knows how to kill this aptana instance, that would be a temporary solution too - killing it from Activity monitor or Force Quitting does not help, I just get a warning that I'll "lose any unsaved changes" but after I click on Force Quit nothing happens - the process is still there.

And yes, this does not happen with any other app on my mac - thanks for asking :D

Thanks, Viktor

Answer 1

For anyone that might be experiencing this issue - here's what came out in the end I accidentally found out that if I close Chrome, hanging Aptana instance also exits and I can normally start it again. So try to shut down Chrome and the problem might be solved. This applies to Aptana Studio 3.4.2.201308081805 - I have yet to install the latest version but it might be the same thing.

I'm wondering has this anything to do with Java? Only thing I see in common

Answer 2

Here is a simple way to kill it:

$ ps -ef | grep Aptana

then, kill the process

$ kill -9 <PID>

substitute with the actual process ID

hope this helps.