Why does Xcode 4.3.1 (4E1019) / 4.3.2 (4E2002) hang regularly with iOS simulator? [duplicate]

Question

Once in every 10-20 runs I experience a hanging Xcode when trying to start a new App run in the simulator. The App won't start.

I can quit the simulator, but Xcode will simply ignore quits.

The only solution so far is to kill and restart Xcode. Fortunately that seems to work without side effects.

(xcode 4.3 on Lion, 8GB mac mini, 5.1 iOS)

Edit: I filed a bug report with Apple.

Edit June 2012: it's still a problem in Xcode 4.3.2 (4E2002)

Edit October 2012: with Xcode 4.5 this issue seems to have gone away. I do seem to notice that every run on the simulator now has a pause of a few seconds before starting the application. Perhaps the issue was fixed by introducing a longer wait somewhere. (There is no such thing as a free lunch.)

Answer 1

Found a workaround that saves you killing Xcode when this happens: if a hang occurs when you are running the iPhone simulator switch to iPad simulator, or vice versa. You will get the message that the simulator is already in use, but ignore that. Then switch back to the device simulator that caused your trouble in the first place, a new run will work!

Perhaps Xcode has trouble contacting the running process in the simulator, above workaround helps.

Answer 2

i have found that the hang is harder than all that. can't even get in to switch simulators. Quit Xcode won't work because it doesn't want to stop all tasks. tried killing a zombied clang task, but that didn't work. didn't see either gdb or lldb tasks, though i know clang is associated with lldb.

so ... no answer except force quit xcode or kill -9 xcode processes in terminal.

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