Comments on: Mac OS X 10.6.2, your fonts, and launching Camino 2

By: Smokey

Smokey — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 07:16:30 +0000

Thanks, John, for all your work on this crash. I’m looking forward to seeing it decline in my crash-stats reports (only after it first goes through the roof, but those are the vagaries of release schedules ).

By: John Daggett

John Daggett — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 02:04:50 +0000

The precise conditions are somewhat murky, under some set of conditions probably involving funky fonts one of the Cocoa API’s says “here’s a family” but provides no faces. So I think bad fonts and/or disabling/enabling faces may be the basis for this problem occurring.

By: Philippe

Philippe — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:20:30 +0000

Yeah, I hadn’t seen John latest findings when I made the comment above. In that case indeed, bad fonts need to be disabled, or better: removed, to stop the crashing.
(I’ll make sure to move my ~/Library/Fonts out of the way when I update to 10.6. Or maybe I should play with fire )

By: Smokey

Smokey — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:11:34 +0000

Perhaps, although John’s latest comment about bad fonts showing up in the font APIs on 10.6 where they didn’t before leads me to believe that bad fonts need to be disabled in order to stop the crashes.

By: Philippe

Philippe — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 07:24:53 +0000

If the issue is indeed font cache corruption, I wonder if a simple cleaning of font caches(s) may help.