ATSServer throws tantrum like 2-year-old
ATSserver truly is very stubborn - once it has decided to complain, good luck in making it stop.
The setup: my MacBook Pro with 10.5.1 Leopard (unfortunately), 3GB RAM, attached to a LaCie 2big disk array, 2 mirrored 750GB drives, attached by FireWire 800, and partinioned into 3 partinitions: "TimeMachine" (TM exclusive use), "BackUp" (for Synk files), "SafaData" (for individual files).
I have not changed anything in my font setup in the last 2 weeks, had no ATSServer errors whatsoever in all this time; my few user-installed fonts (5 families to be exact) all reside in my ~home/Library/Fonts; there are no 3rd party font tools of any kind installed; all OS fonts are left untouched in their respective locations where they were installed by Apple, and are turned on and off through FontBook.
Here's what happened:
1) I had one of the lovely Leopard-only OS hangs yesterday (http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=6217557#6217557)
2) This made TimeMachine do its "deep traversal" dance routine, and then add completely unnecessary 50+ GB to my backup set (http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=6218392#6218392)
3) I decided to, once again, restart TimeMachine from scratch: initialize the TM destination disc, let TM work through an entirely new backup set.
4) TimeMachine stopped working after 12.8GB were backed up, when ATSServer began spewing ridiculous "Bad On-Memory Font Detected" errors to the Console. Erase disk, start again, same result: 12.8GB, ATSServer going crazy.
5) Starting to get somewhat short-tempered, I turned TimeMachine Off and again erased its disk partition. I checked all loaded fonts in FontBook (they were all OK), deleted all ATSServer font caches, and restarted the MacBook Pro.
I started backing up my home folder, my work partition, and finally my Users/Shared folder, using Synk Pro 6.2.1.
6) At some point, you've guessed it, ATSServer again began its silly routine, writing hundreds of error messages to the Console - my guess is that this started when mdimport worked through the backup files +on the Backup partition+.
7) Now the real fun starts: I quit Synk, *unmounted and physically disconnected the external drive* with the backup partition.
Does anyone think this stopped ATSServer from complaining about all sorts of "com.apple.ATSServer[847] A fatal error was detected using fontiD 131449 while processing a message (id: 11) from pid=194."? Of course it didn't.
8) Rebooted the MBP (external drives were not attached), and even in the login screen I knew ATSServer was acting up in the background, as everything was extremely slow.
9) Again deleted all ATSServer cache files, reset PRAM, rebooted into Safe mode - supposedly such Voodoo helps to reset some deep-level System caches.
ATSServer was still acting up and complaining about bad fonts.
10) Rebooted using the Leopard Install DVD, checked and fixed my System disk and its permissions.
11) Reboot - ATSServer is still acting up, complaining about font files.
12) I let it complain and went to bed.
*ATSServer cried a full 2 hours about font files that supposedly are broken.*
I'm pretty certain the font files in question are on the external FW800 disk that had been unmounted a long time and many many reboots earlier, and ATSServer simply was unable to stop complaining, like a 2-year-old crying long after having forgotten what its all about.
Would anyone know of some sort of Lollipop for ATSServer? You know: a way to make it forget about a booboo that +is no loger even here+, and start to behave normally again? Or even just a way to understand what it is that makes ATSServer unhappy - like: which fonts it is complaining about?
It would be most appreciated.
Heads-up: I think I found out the culprit.
Turns out this has almost certainly nothing at all to do with any installed font issues: the two-hour-long complaining by ATSServer has been initiated by mdsearch trying to index a single corrupted 52KB PDF file that was badly mangled by a webserver!
I would have hoped for OS X 10.5 to be more robust than that - with all the problems I had and am still having, it feels more like a house of cards, precariously stacked up, and ready to crash at any time.
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#2. HD archives
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