Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Upgrade to Snow Leopard Freezes at Boot -- FIXED!


It did not.




at org.eclipse.swt.graphics.Device.getFontList(Device.java:369)
Very interesting.




  3. Log in to your account from the log in screen
  4. Open the Terminal (Applications/Utilities/Terminal)
    atsutil databases -removeUser

    sudo atsutil databases -remove



Marc said...

I followed the instructions and fixed my Mac Pro... THANKS... this has been an ongoing problem that seemed to happen every few months... usually did a reinstall.... reminded me of Windows, very frustrated. Anyway... Mac Pro would get the white screen, then an apple.... normal boot process... then a circle with a line through it would come up... freeze... cleared the font cache after booting in safe mode and everything came up fine..

Eric said...

Marc, I'm glad this helped. Hopefully the the 10.6.2 updates will solve some problems. It looks like there were a few font related issues that were resolved.

Marc said...

I'm sure they will fix the issue. Seems strange to freeze a computer during boot for a font cache issue.... Anyway, bad news is it was 10.6.2. I need to get back active in the appleseed program again... maybe help some of these issues...