[Fwd: Intel MAC crashing with EXC_BAD_ACCESS errors]

[Chris Denesha]

Steve Mills wrote:
> On Sep 14, 2007, at 00:10:41, Chris Denesha wrote:
> 
>> Ok, this is interesting.  I decided to install C8 and update to 8.0.1. 
>> I repaired permissions - where most of the fonts I had been messing 
>> with  had their permissions repaired. :)  I thought  Aha!, and 
>> launched C8.  Created a new doc, and ran the 'Display All TypeFaces' 
>> script.  Crash.
>>
>> Then I realized I had not rebooted.  Now neither C7 and C8 is 
>> crashing.  Hmm..
>>
>> Do you mind looking at the log of my C8 crash anyway, and helping me 
>> interpret it??  Does it look font related?
> 
> Everything above DrawCFStringGuts (line 15 in thread 0) is OS code. Text 
> is attempting to be measured before drawing it into a popup control, but 
> something has hosed the fonts or just memory in general.
> 
> One thing I don't see in the things you've tried is throwing out the 
> font cache folder /Library/Caches/com.apple.ATS/ and rebooting.
> 
> One final thing: Display All Typefaces was removed from our installers 
> quite some time ago because some 3rd party code had a bug that could 
> cause crashes when too many glyphs in too many fonts had been displayed. 
> If you need a WYSIWYG font list printed out, either do it in batches or 
> use another app. There are quite a few freeware apps that do just that.
> 
> _________________________________________________________
> Steve Mills                              Me: 952-401-6255
> Senior Software Architect                         MultiAd
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Thanks Steve.

I used a third party utility called Tiger Cache Cleaner to clean the 
font caches.  Medium Cleaning with Local and System Cache.  Let's see.. 
Yup that folder is trashed this way, and the utility prompts a reboot.

I installed C8 from our MultiAd supplied CD and immediately updated with 
th 8.0.1 update.  I'll do it again.. Display All Typefaces is not 
installed with our installer - the 4 scripts in Fonts Suite are dated 
9/15/2006.  Now the C8.0.1 updater - two scripts are added to the Fonts 
Suite folder, 'Display All Typefaces' and 'Try Every Font' and all 
scripts are dated 1/9/2007.

chris