[OSX-Users] Re: Snow Leopard Lock Ups

[Nick Gibbins]

Christopher Gutteridge wrote:
> I wish I'd not bothered to upgrade to Snow Leopard (so early). I've 
> noticed no improvements I give a damn about and have had to hard-reset 
> about once every 48 hours when it locks up.
> 
> Mostly I use:
> Firefox 3.5.3, thunderbird, Terminal, VLC
> 
> Every now and then it starts locking up. I can't tell exactly why, but 
> it can't start new apps, current apps start freezing, one by one, the 
> terminal won't execute new commands (just hangs when you try). 
> Eventually everything locks up and a hard-reset is the only option.
> 
> I found a list of software issues: http://snowleopard.wikidot.com/ but 
> none of them explain a total OS lockup. I also run dropbox and sophos, 
> although I don't really care about them, so it could be them causing 
> problems.
> 
> dang. My Mac just lost the reliability which made it good. :(
> 

That sounds very like the behaviour I had, which was related to 
duplicate/corrupt fonts. Try running Font Book and doing Edit->Resolve Duplicates.

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