Garage Band '08 crashing at startup

You are absolutly right, it's a font corruption. In my case is HelveticaNeue the one, so I have replace it and now all works well.

Thank you very much.

Regards

Antonio

OMG!!! That did it. I moved my fonts onto the desktop, restarted and Garage Band started right up! You're a genius!

Now all I have to do is go through 3,629 fonts to find the offending party.

Molte grazie!

alan b

Happy Dance for me too. Thank you all who pointed out the possible Font issue. Be sure to move the fonts to a backup folder on the desk top. Moving them into the system folder instead of the user fonts folder will not help, yes I am this stupid. THANKS AGAIN!

Didn't work for me.

I moved all 2,700 user fonts into a folder on the desktop named "oldfont".

GarageBand still won't start.

*UPDATE: After a reboot, it WORKED!!!*

Turns out it was +Helvetica Neue+ for me too.

+I had 51 variants of it.+ Once I yanked 'em all, and put back all other fonts, it worked beautifully.

Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!!

I'm having the same issue on 2 dual G5s which both use Font Agent Pro to manage the fonts. I disabled Helvetica Neue but GarageBand still dies on launch. It runs fine on my MacBook.

Didn't work for me. Moved the whole user font folder to the desktop and rebooted. Garageband still doesn't launch up...

Hmm, I could still test removing fonts from the system font folder...

I should also point out some key caveats to the fix.

1. In order for my above fix to potentially work, you need to have the exact symptom (you cannot run GB from one account but CAN run it from a new account)
2. If no accounts can log into GB, then you need to check the /Library/Fonts folder as well as the /Users/ */Library/Fonts folder for bad fonts.
3. Also you should have already removed questionable plug-ins, deleted the preference files (.plist and .cs) a la the external link to fix weird GB problems.
4. Do not assume that since a font integrity program reports that all of your fonts are okay, that GB can read them. Remember, it is a GB problem. GB 3 worked fine to read this same font (or maybe didn't call for it)

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None of the hints so far have helped me.

mac-convert wrote:
1. In order for my above fix to potentially work, you need to have the exact symptom (you cannot run GB from one account but CAN run it from a new account)

Yep, that's the case here. I can launch GB as root and my "guest" user also has no problems running the application.

3. Also you should have already removed questionable plug-ins, deleted the preference files (.plist and .cs) a la the external link to fix weird GB problems.

Did that. Did not help.

I also ran a maintenance script which cured another app a while ago. This time no luck.

It's probably something else in my home directory than the fonts...

BTW, do I really have to reboot every time I make some changes in the home directory? Wouldn't logging out and back in do the trick?

I was having a similar issue and tried the same fixes. The following worked for me but keep in mind I have a huge number of Wave's PI's for use with Protools. This, I suspect was my issue.

In the folder:
HD > Library > Audio > Plug-ins > Components > Wave-shell AU.component

I found too many waves-audio units shells (from a few reinstalls). I removed all but: AU 5.0.1 (trial and error). Afterwards, no problems.

Other programs/plugins may create multiple plugin files/shells. GB appears to only like having one. I hope this helps.

hi man , thx a lot, worked for me too, Apple rocks

Okay, I've eliminated all but four fonts. And now Garageband finally opens. However, iDVD still crashing and have yet to be able to see the application since purchase.