Today I had some really strange problems with my Mac running Panther. Suddenly (after a crash) some apps won’t start up. First of all Proteus, followd by Stickes. Later on I could not use System Preference Panes like Accounts and so on. Because my machine normally has a long uptime, I couldn’t exactly remember what I changed since the last reboot. So I tried other accounts and so on. I was at the point to reinstall everything when I decided to ask my good old friend Google. And yes, there was a helpful link in the search results.
Prior to my system crash I used FontBook (the first time) to activate ITC Officina – and that’s the culprit. After I deactivated this font, I could start all apps and use all panels. Very strange.
It seems to me as if Apple should improve the search engine. A search on the Apple Support Site using the same keywords only revealed unrelevant docs. And of course, I will not use FontBook until this is fixed.
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