Captivate Hangs on Startup MAC (resolved)

Hi to you all !
After struggling with Adobe (lack of adequate) support, I finally managed to solve my problem on my own.
Here the rundown :
(long answer, you can skip to bottom for short answer)
I have:
Paid subscription Adobe CC suite
Paid subscription of Captivate 7
Running on Mac OSX Mavericks
All of a sudden, Captivate started to hang (crash) at startup. Called Adobe support:
First answer: " You cannot have a subscription of Captivate and a subscription of CC at the same time "
Hang up and call again: " I don't see any subscription for Captivate in your account "
Hang up and call again: " I will cancel your subscription and try to register again "
Register Again... : " I cannot get Captivate 7 subscription now 'cause the current version is Captivate 8"
Call again: " I will restore your subscription "
1 day later: " Still not working !"
Called again: " I will reset your subscription, wait 15 minutes then try again "
Not to mention that the support is being done in beautiful INDIA !! Forget about US based support !
Got fed up, installed a pirated version on another machine ! Hey ! I've got work to do here !
After that, I reverted to investigate myself and dig a bit. Here's what I did:
(Short answer)
Open monitor to look at application log.
Noticed Captivate was flagging numerous corrupt fonts and stopped while loading one.
Open Fontbook to validate and delete faulty fonts
Cleared font cache
Restarted machine
Started Captivate, works great
No thanks for Adobe support ! Crappy to say the least ! But we all know that !

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I would follow these instructions to the letter:
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6/28/12 11:25:38.000 PM kernel: NVDANV50HAL loaded and registered.
Seems to me that this could be an issue too since that's obviously associated with the graphics hardware.
So, any help would be greatly appreciated!

Something you haven't mentioned is whether you have tried booting
from your clone and having the same issues. Did you try that?
If it boots and works fine from the clone, then there could be
a corrupted file trying to be accessed at boot (possible bad sector)
on the internal drive or it could be that the drive is starting to
give out.

External Firewire HDD causes hangs on my Mac Pro & HDD lag using finder

External Firewire HDD causes hangs on my Mac Pro & HDD lag using finder.
I have an 2008 Mac Pro 8 core 2.66hz, 10GB Mem, ATI HD4870 with 4 internal 1 TB Drives. I have 3 external HDDs (2 USB + 1 FW400). The 2 USB HDDs are for Time Machine and backups.
The external FW HD is a 1TB bootable clone of my Internal 1 TB boot HDD.
I have 2 problems ... somethimes when using finder or opening a folder, copying files, starting or quiting a program, I get the spinning beach ball that seems to hang the Mac.
I power off the external FW HDD and everything starts to work. I get an error about the device going offline, I then power the FW HDD back on and all is good.
It seems the external FW Drive tends to hang the system. It occurs pretty frequently.
Any recommendations?
The other issue is that when I use finder to go to a folder, I seem to have to wait for all these drive to spin up. You can hear them all start whirring.
is there a way to remove that lag?

If you recently moved to Snow Leopard you might look for new firmware for your external drive. I would also get DiskWarrior and run that on the external and consider programs like Drive Genius. You might also back it up and wipe it and restore the data. After that I'd consider looking at a new external.
Sleeping drives that take time to spin up after waking....I'd like to learn how to stop that myself. Be sure the Energy Saver in System Preferences is set to not put drives to sleep when possible. Even then my drives will go to sleep and I have up to 6 external added at times and they take quite a while to all spin up. I've never found a way to prevent that.
BTW...external USB drives on a MacPro? Really? Even for backup....

Database Hangs on Startup

Hi
We are using Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition Release 11.1.0.6.0 .
We Restored the database on Test server from Production by using RMAN .
The problem is when we startup the database it hangs after Mount phase.
In alert log file We saw the following eror
ERROR, tran=19.10.20602, session#=1, ose=0:
ORA-03113: end-of-file on communication channel
We removed all the DBLINKS as we thought that could be the problem but the problem was same.
We found some Pending transactions in DBA_2PC_PENDING and purged all of them (19.10.20602 in the above error was part of Pending transaction)
But the database still hangs on startup .
The last entry in alert file inow is
Wed Aug 17 16:05:12 2011
QMNC started with pid=19, OS id=2803
If we leave the database in this mode it will finally comes up with "Database opened" but this is after 6 to 7 hours.
Ocassionaly we will see the following error in alert log file
Fatal NI connect error 12170.
VERSION INFORMATION:
TNS for Solaris: Version 11.1.0.6.0 - Production
Oracle Bequeath NT Protocol Adapter for Solaris: Version 11.1.0.6.0 - Pr
oduction
TCP/IP NT Protocol Adapter for Solaris: Version 11.1.0.6.0 - Production
Time: 12-AUG-2011 15:12:37
Tracing not turned on.
Tns error struct:
ns main err code: 12535
TNS-12535: TNS:operation timed out
ns secondary err code: 12606
nt main err code: 0
nt secondary err code: 0
Please help
Thanks

The strange thing is that it hangs on Database mount for long time
Total System Global Area 584761344 bytes
Fixed Size 2090792 bytes
Variable Size 159389912 bytes
Database Buffers 415236096 bytes
Redo Buffers 8044544 bytes
Database mounted.
and last entry in log file is :
Starting background process QMNC
Thu Aug 18 11:13:34 2011
QMNC started with pid=19, OS id=18043
But if I use CTRL+C
it gives me the following in sql
^CORA-01013: user requested cancel of current operation
and in alert log file now I an see "Completed: ALTER DATABASE OPEN"
Please help.

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