Arduino IDE launch takes minutes on macOS

[SConaway]

Describe the problem

Issue

When I open the IDE normally on my mac, the IDE always takes over two minutes before a window appears. Until then, the icon bounces in the Dock and Activity Monitor lists the Arduino IDE process as not responding (and it has launched no other processes yet).

If I open the application in the terminal via its binary (/Applications/Arduino IDE.app/Contents/MacOS/Arduino IDE), then this problem goes away.

Attempted solutions

1. I've tested it with other 2.x versions, including nightlies.
2. removed all configuration (~/.arduinoIDE, ~/Library/Arduino15, ~/Library/Application Support/arduino-ide) and still no luck
3. tried packaging from source but this fails due to an error

To reproduce

1. Install IDE
2. attempt to open

Expected behavior

The software opens in seconds like any other application.

Arduino IDE version

2.1.0

Operating system

macOS

Operating system version

anything ventura-based

Additional context

I am willing to provide any information needed.

Issue checklist

• I searched for previous reports in the issue tracker
• I verified the problem still occurs when using the latest nightly build
• My report contains all necessary details

[kittaakos]

Thank you for taking the time and reporting the issue to us.

Additional context

I am willing to provide any information needed.

Great! Here are a few questions that could help to figure out the problem:

• M1 or Intel chip?
• Somebody else has reported a similar issue on the Arduino Forum. What happens when you try disconnecting from the Internet or disabling the auto-update feature? Please reference this post on how to do it.
• You could share the startup log with us. Follow these excellent steps to gather the log files from IDE2 on macOS.

Thanks!

[SConaway]

M1 or Intel chip?

M1 Max

Somebody else has reported a similar issue on the Arduino Forum. What happens when you try disconnecting from the Internet or disabling the auto-update feature? Please reference this post on how to do it.

Neither disabling WiFi nor disabling autoupdates (from settings) solved the issue.

You could share the startup log with us. Follow these excellent steps to gather the log files from IDE2 on macOS.

When I run from terminal, the issue goes away and it launches normally.

[kittaakos]

Thank you for the update!

M1 or Intel chip?

M1 Max

Please confirm you have downloaded the IDE2 application for M1 and not Intel. Thanks!

From the download page (https://www.arduino.cc/en/software):

1. I've tested it with other 2.x versions, including nightlies.

We do not yet have nightly builds for M1: #408.

[SConaway]

Please confirm you have downloaded the IDE2 application for M1 and not Intel. Thanks!

yes, I have the AS version.

We do not yet have nightly builds for M1: #408.

Yes, but I encounter the problem when running the Intel nightly under Rosetta 2.