Delay when invoking Alfred

[jchook]

Unpredictably yet frequently Alfred 3 will take a full second to respond to my hotkey (currently command-space).

 

This problem started when I got a new MacBook Pro (15-inch, 2016) and transferred my settings. Using Mac OS X 10.12.6 (16G29).

 

Steps to reproduce:

1. Invoke Alfred
2. Press esc and repeat step 1 until the invocation delay occurs

 

This can take me anywhere from 1 to 100 tries before it happens again. It's very unpredictable, though usually happens on my first try after a few minutes. In other cases the first try will respond instantaneously, but the 2nd try will not.

 

This is suuuuper duper annoying. It makes Alfred unusable for me (BTW I'm a "Mega Supporter" and long-time evangelist of Alfred).

 

Attempted fixes:

• Removed Alfred 3 settings entirely from ~/Library/Application Support
• Removed old Alfred 2 settings and Alfred 3 settings from ~/Library/Application Support
• Reinstalled Alfred
• Quit all other apps and watched Activity Monitor while reproducing the issue (saw nothing obvious)
• Restarted computer

 

Here is an excerpt of things I'm seeing in Console.app near when the issue occurs. No idea if any of this is related b/c Console.app is a constant stream of garbage.

default	16:12:13.844718 -0400	Console	IMKInputSession presentFunctionRowItemTextInputViewWithEndpoint:completionHandler: : [self textInputContext]=0x0 *NO* NSRemoteViewController to client, NSError=Error Domain=NSCocoaErrorDomain Code=4099 "The connection from pid 0 was invalidated from this process." UserInfo={NSDebugDescription=The connection from pid 0 was invalidated from this process.}, com.apple.inputmethod.EmojiFunctionRowItem
default	16:12:14.612669 -0400	opendirectoryd	Client: <private>, UID: 501, EUID: 501, GID: 20, EGID: 20
default	16:12:14.615193 -0400	opendirectoryd	Client: <private>, UID: 501, EUID: 501, GID: 20, EGID: 20
default	16:12:14.615273 -0400	opendirectoryd	<private> failed with error '<private>' (2)
default	16:12:17.707248 -0400	trustd	cert[2]: AnchorTrusted =(leaf)[force]> 0
default	16:12:17.708396 -0400	com.apple.iCloudHelper	MacOS error: -67050
default	16:12:21.109355 -0400	opendirectoryd	Client: <private>, UID: 501, EUID: 501, GID: 20, EGID: 20
default	16:12:21.109842 -0400	opendirectoryd	Client: <private>, UID: 501, EUID: 501, GID: 20, EGID: 20
default	16:12:21.110360 -0400	opendirectoryd	Client: <private>, UID: 501, EUID: 501, GID: 20, EGID: 20
default	16:12:21.110707 -0400	opendirectoryd	Client: <private>, UID: 501, EUID: 501, GID: 20, EGID: 20

 

Hopefully we can fix this!

 

[Andrew]

@jchook I just set Alfred to automatically run a couple of thousand show / hide cycles on both my Macs and haven't been able to reproduce this issue. Also, this hasn't been reported by others, and the Console info doesn't look related to Alfred.

 

Could you have some defunct or hung network drives which could indirectly be causing an issue?

 

Have you tried temporarily creating a new user profile on your Mac and seeing if it's reproducible there?

 

Cheers,

Andrew

[jchook]

Hey Andrew, thanks for the quick response.

 

You are a genius. When I read "network drivers" it clicked... I recently installed sshfs and FUSE... exactly the problem.

 

I unmounted an sshfs drive that got disconnected, and voilà!