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Fight ATSServer stall with autologin at startup
Authored by: shawnwelter on May 15, '06 11:23:02AM

Yes this is a problem with the fonts system. We believe it is mostly Suitcase related. I routinely have this problem with designer's machines but not with other machines in the company.

I do know that Extensis support did admit that Suitcase has issues with remote home directories. There is no information on their support site about this. But though testing I have confirmed that it does have issues. Unfortunately I have not found another font management program that works fully with remote home directories. Font Agent is close but have found bugs that have kept us from switching.

As to dealing with the issue we have been using Onyx to flush the caches. We are able to run this while logged in as a local administrator. We are looking at adding a Shutdown script that could clean up the problem if detected.



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Fight ATSServer stall with autologin at startup
Authored by: ExecutiveEditor on May 15, '06 01:43:10PM
That's good information. In our case, this is happening on stock machines without font-management software (beyond Font Book, of course). But it is happening only on accounts with networked home directories, so that is the common point between your situation and ours.

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