up vote 3 down vote favorite
1
share [g+] share [fb]

This is a very simple and strange error - Textmate is not opening at all. I have a license fully paid for, I checked my Mac OS X activity monitor and there is no Textmate process running.

Is there a known problem here? Is there a solution?

link|improve this question
1  
May I suggest that you try opening TextMate from another user account on your system? That´s usually the fastest way to determine whether there is something wrong with the application itself (or its "global" preferences) or with your "local" user preferences. – Asmus Feb 26 '11 at 10:12
Anything new on this issue? – Daniel Beck Mar 30 '11 at 19:37
feedback

3 Answers

up vote 6 down vote

This has happened to me a couple of times after catastrophic system fails (OSX dying without being able to properly shut down all running applications). If that happens while TextMate was running, a stale PID (Process ID) file could remain behind.

Try deleting ~/Library/Application Support/TextMate/TextMate.pid

That usually fixes it for me.

link|improve this answer
Nice! Thanks Achilles. – jnolte Nov 24 '11 at 4:19
feedback
up vote 1 down vote

What does the Console log (in the /Applications/Utilities/Console app) say when you try to open TextMate? Use the Logs button in Console to browse for TextMate crash logs. What do they say?

Have you tried downloading and installing a fresh copy of TextMate?

Look in ~/Library/Preferences/ for a com.macromates.TextMate.preferences.plist file or other TextMate preferences files and move them out of there to your Desktop. Does TextMate open now?

link|improve this answer
I offer com.macromates.textmate.LSSharedFileList.plist com.macromates.textmate.blogging.txt com.macromates.textmate.getbundles.plist com.macromates.textmate.latex_config.plist com.macromates.textmate.plist com.macromates.textmate.python com.macromates.textmate.webpreview.plist in my ~/Library/Preferences/ directory. The best way to find them is to open Terminal and entering ls ~/Library/Preferences | grep textmate. – Daniel Beck Feb 26 '11 at 10:22
feedback
up vote 0 down vote

Another way to find what's going on is to lauch the actual executable from the terminal (found in Applications/Utilities/).

Right click on the TextMate icon and choose "Show package content" (or whatever it's called, in french it's "Afficher le contenu du paquet"). Then browse to Content/MacOS/ and double-click on the executable.

You'll get an error message in a terminal window that can be either sent to Allan, TextMate's author, or added to your question here.

link|improve this answer
feedback

Your Answer

 
or
required, but never shown
discard

Not the answer you're looking for? Browse other questions tagged or ask your own question.