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path_helper freezing
Authored by: Lliwynd on Thu, Apr 10 2008 at 5:16PM PDT

I had the same issue: /usr/libexec/path_helper -s was freezing and using 100% CPU when starting LaTeX*It. (never seen this before on 10.5)

I found that I couldn't even kill it easily (it took a kill -9 to make it die). However, once I killed it, latexit continued to load and seemed to work fine.