Install Issue: TSplicedFont failed creating descriptor...

I've finally found a straightforward solution that doesn't involve running the El Capitan installer from within a separate OS X installation.

First of all I tried installing Google Noto fonts as detailed here which DIDN'T work.

After some more digging I then stumbled upon the OS X Recovery Disk Assistant here:

OS X Recovery Disk Assistant v1.0

I used this application to create a bootable USB, booted from it (reboot and hold the option key) and proceeded to perform an on-line installation of OS X. To my relief, El Capitan downloaded and installed without a hitch.

I think I'm right in saying this method will install the last version of OS X that you had installed on your mac.

By the way, is everybody else experiencing this problem also trying to install to an SSD? Also, the only way I could even boot from my original El Capitan installation USB was by holding 'c' at startup - when I held the option key it didn't even find my USB drive. Perhaps I just didn't wait long enough?

Anyway, please let me know if the above solution works for anyone else.

I'm getting the same issue with basically the same laptop, 17" 5,1

Error starts almost immediately though.

Yosemite was running OK until internal drive crapped out.

El Cap install from partitioned 128GB Lexar Thumbdrive created with DiskMaker X

Trying to install to an SSD that was erased before being installed.

Installation log is up to 10,600 lines and counting.

MW

Macbook Pro 5,1, Trying for El Cap

same issue there. I am installing a fresh copy of elcap with usb stick and mac pro 2008. Did you find a solution?

Having the same issue on a macbook pro from 2011 - installing el cap from a usb stick.

Same issue in a 9,2 MacBook Pro. Installing from a USB 32 GB, clean install to a SSD HD.

Same issue here, trying to install from usb stick on a second partition on a late 2009 27 "iMac, with SL on it.

The last second gets eternal, then the machine shuts off:

Oct 14 14:52:26 iMac Unknown[445]: 2015-10-14 14:52:26.678 Language Chooser[444:7023] TSplicedFont failed creating descriptor for:

Oct 14 14:52:26 iMac Unknown[445]: (

Oct 14 14:52:26 iMac Unknown[445]: {

Oct 14 14:52:26 iMac Unknown[445]: UnicodeRange = "<__NSCFCharacterSet: 0x7f886e5bfaf0>";

Oct 14 14:52:26 iMac Unknown[445]: name = NotoSansBuhid;

Oct 14 14:52:26 iMac Unknown[445]: },

Oct 14 14:52:26 iMac Unknown[445]: {

Oct 14 14:52:26 iMac Unknown[445]: UnicodeRange = "<__NSCFCharacterSet: 0x7f886e161050>";

Oct 14 14:52:26 iMac Unknown[445]: name = NotoSansHanunoo;

Oct 14 14:52:26 iMac Unknown[445]: },

...

and so on...

PD: So, Snow Leopard still rocks for me. I was willing, but...😉

TTry removing all that google noto font stuff from the system you are upgrading.

What and where is the "google noto font stuff" located?

Thanks.

IT's a very large number of fonts named Noto that would normally be in Home/library/fonts. To get to home/library you may need to hold the option key down while doing Finder > go

So I went to home/library/fonts, found a Google file, but with no "noto"-font in it.

Then I started the Language Chooser via Terminal because of this install protocol notificacion:

Oct 14 16:44:28 iMac InstallAssistant[491]: Env: _=/System/Library/CoreServices/Language Chooser.app/Contents/MacOS/Language Chooser

Oct 14 16:44:29 iMac Unknown[445]: 2015-10-14 16:44:29.283 Language Chooser[444:6967] TSplicedFont failed creating descriptor for:

Terminal:

/System/Library/CoreServices/Language\ Chooser.app/Contents/MacOS/Language\ Chooser ; exit;

2015-10-15 01:06:48.828 Language Chooser[382:903] No /etc/rc.cdrom & No /var/db/.AppleCustomMac

Setting boot completed.

2015-10-15 01:06:51.323 Language Chooser[382:903] Could not write to /var/log/CDIS.custom

2015-10-15 01:06:51.323 Language Chooser[382:903] Cannot load BootPanel.pdf from (null)

logout

Maybe there's an issue with the Language Chooser.app, because a long time ago I deleted a lot languages with the Monolingual.app.

I don´t want to delete my working SL partition, I just want to install 10.11 on a second partition to check it out.

So it seems that I have to formate the whole HD, make a clean install of 10.6, than create a second partion, install 10.11 on it and then reinstall my timemachine backup on the SL partition...

OH MY GOD, QUE CAPITAN! 😝

So I did, what I had to do.

Formatted the whole HD, 1TB

Made a clean install of 10.6.3

Made a second partition, 101 GB

And tried to install 10.11

Same issue.

THIS IS FOR ME OS X El Marinero, no Capitan... la, la Bamba... 😁

Last hope: The install image on the USB stick may be corrupt, will download El Marinero again, and try a last time.

I left my mac working for a couple of hours, when i came back home the installation was complete.

So did I. And it worked. Thank you.

Time heals. Just wait. 🙂

But I didn´t like it and returned to SL.😀

Still the best, simple and controllable.

I had this same issue and drove myself crazy trying to get it to go. A big issue with all this is how long the process takes to figure out you have this problem. I finally resolved the issue. It wasn't easy and took out of the box thinking. I tried 2 different downloaded versions of The Elcapitan Installer from the app store. I made install disks to Memory Cards (2 different ones), a flash drive and a firewire drive. All failed with the same error as described throughout this thread.

What I finally did to get success was install El Capitan to an External Firewire drive. It is a slow process (90 minutes in my case). Once the install was finished to the external I use Carbon Copy Cloner to clone the external drive to my internal drive. Carbon Copy Cloner is an application that makes an exact copy that is bootable. All you do is open Carbon Cloner that you install onto the external you just installed El Capitan on. You select the Elcapitan drive as the source and you internal hard drive as the destination. It took about 20 minutes for the program to make the copy. Once it completed I set my internal drive as the startup disk and hit restart. BINGO.... My Mac is running El Capitan off the internal Hard Drive now. All went perfectly.