10.6: Fix an Apple Software Restore font issue

Dec 31, '09 07:30:00AM

Contributed by: winddog

Snow Leopard only hintApple Software Restore (ASR) has a font issue when used from the command line (asr), or from Disk Utility (Restore tab) in 10.6.

When booting off the imaged drive, upon first log in to each user account, a message pops up stating that the Lucide Grand font has been changed and restored. There are two ways to fix this issue:

  1. Run Disk Utility from the 10.6 install disc: this insures that all caches are in sync.
  2. In Terminal, do this: rm -rf /Volumes/some_drive/private/var/folders/*: this removes the font caches from the users' accounts.
Hope this helps someone else.

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