Growlhelperapp not responding on startup

[kaz219]

Hello,

I have a problem with "growlhelperapp not responding" in Activity Monitor at startup (computer startup). It last for 2 or 3 minutes then everything is fine. The problem is that during this 2 or 3 minutes safari and firefox can't start. When I try to start them, there process in the activity monitor just go in "not responding" mode and nothing happens. When growlhelperapp become "responsive" again, suddenly safari and firefox finish their startup. This leads to me having to wait 3 additional minutes before being able to open a web page after starting my computer, which is quite annoying.

So, my question is: what is growlhelperapp doing on startup that takes him 3 minutes? No high CPU activity, no high disk activity, so it seems it is waiting for something. Has anybody any clue about this?

[boredzo]

I have a problem with "growlhelperapp not responding" in Activity Monitor at startup (computer startup). It last for 2 or 3 minutes then everything is fine.

Please take a sample of GrowlHelperApp while it is hung, then post that sample here. You'll use Activity Monitor's Sample Process command, which is in the menus and which you can add to the toolbar.

[kaz219]

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Sampling process 2559 for 3 seconds with 1 millisecond of run time between samples
Sampling completed, processing symbols...
Analysis of sampling GrowlHelperApp (pid 2559) every 1 millisecond
Call graph:
    2337 Thread_2507
      2337 0x2a89
        2337 0x2b62
          2337 0x7308
            2337 0x1ba45
              2337 0x15582
                2337 0xe4c5
                  2337 0xfad3
                    2337 LSOpenFromRefSpec
                      2337 _LSOpenItemsWithRole_Common(FSRef const*, long, unsigned long, AEKeyDesc const*, LSApplicationParameters_V1 const*, ProcessSerialNumber*, long, FSRef*)
                        2337 _LSOpenStuff
                          2337 CFDictionaryApplyFunction
                            2337 _LSOpenItemsWithHandler_CFDictionaryApplier(void const*, void const*, void*)
                              2337 AESendMessage
                                2337 sendToModernProcess(__CFMachPort*, unsigned long, AEDesc const*, long)
                                  1635 mach_msg
                                    1635 mach_msg_trap
                                      1635 mach_msg_trap
                                  701 usleep$UNIX2003
                                    701 __semwait_signal
                                      701 __semwait_signal
                                  1 DescriptorBundle::~DescriptorBundle()
                                    1 DescriptorBundle::~DescriptorBundle()

Total number in stack (recursive counted multiple, when >=5):

Sort by top of stack, same collapsed (when >= 5):
        mach_msg_trap        1635
        __semwait_signal        701
Sample analysis of process 2559 written to file /dev/stdout