Spine doesn't start

diegomb

Hello,

I just bought Spine Essential for Mac. After installing it, I try to run it for the first time but nothing happens. It loads up to 99%, and after that the Spine icon appears on the dock but the name is "Java" and it's frozen.

I can't find the spine.log anywhere, I guess it wasn't even generated since I never got the program running for the first time. Attached you'll find a screenshot of the dock.

Thanks,
Diego

Nate

Do you see anything in Console.app? Clear it then run Spine and see what shows up.

diegomb

This is what I see:

22/09/14 16:59:47,000 kernel[0]: process java[1524] caught causing excessive wakeups. Observed wakeups rate (per sec): 784; Maximum permitted wakeups rate (per sec): 150; Observation period: 300 seconds; Task lifetime number of wakeups: 45583
22/09/14 16:59:47,225 ReportCrash[1530]: Invoking spindump for pid=1524 wakeups_rate=784 duration=58 because of excessive wakeups
22/09/14 16:59:47,919 spindump[1531]: Saved wakeups_resource.spin report for launcher-full version ??? (???) to /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/launcher-full_2014-09-22-165947_MacBook-Pro-de-Diego.wakeups_resource.spin

Nate

Please see this post and the one after it:
viewtopic.php?p=12759#p12759

Not sure why it doesn't happen to most people!

diegomb

Thank you, Nate. I understand the basic idea but I'm not that tech savvy to follow through. I'm not sure what I'm supposed to do (uninstall Java?). Could you guide me through the steps?

Regards,
Diego

Nate

Open Terminal.app and type "java" then enter. If that works, then type "export SPINE_JAVA=java" then enter, then type "open /Applications/Spine/Spine.app" then enter. If the first java command didn't work, install Java.

diegomb

Hi Nate,

Sorry to bother you with this again. I restarted my Mac after a few days and I ran into the same problem, only this time this workaround is not doing anything. I can't run Spine at all. I've updated it to the latest version with no luck.

Nate

Googling "excessive wakeups" shows lots of people have the problem for all kinds of software. Eg, these logs show the problem happening for Dropbox, Google Earth, Contacts, iPhoto, etc. These apps are used by millions of people, so I expect the problem is something outside of the software, like something in your OS configuration and hardware. Someone in that thread mentioned you might need more RAM or should uninstall junk anti virus software. Could that be the cause?