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TICKET ARCHIVE -> Deleted Lucida Grande from System/Library/Fonts folder
MDprepress - Feb 3, 2006 - 3:33 am
I'm on a mirror-door G4 with 10.2.8 running (or not, unfortunately). I was fixing an unrelated font problem and was deleting files in the System/Library/Fonts folder. Fixed my problem, but in "cleaning up" I accidentally dragged the Lucida Grande font to the Trash. And then rebooted. Oy. Blue screen and beachball and looooong wait then eventually I got a log in screen. I don't usually log in to this machine, but the main account is set up with a "blank" password. When I tried leaving the field blank and simply clicking "login" I got the spinning beach ball. Forever. Which is where I left it and went home.
I would have tried a reinstall from CD, but I'm having problems with the CD drive, and it won't recognize CDs, so when I tried to boot up from a CD, no luck.
The machine will boot into single-user mode. So, if I had the Unix knowledge, I could theoretically check the trash to see if I threw out the font, then if not, move it back to the System/Library/Fonts folder. Would this involve changing permissions for that folder? Can this be done from the single-user command line prompt, and what is the appropriate sequence of Unix commands?
Any other suggestions for a fix? I'd settle for fixing the CD drive and then I could proceed with the font issue, but at this point, I figure it's gonna be hard to do anything until I can boot up the system.
Thank you for any help you can offer!
I would have tried a reinstall from CD, but I'm having problems with the CD drive, and it won't recognize CDs, so when I tried to boot up from a CD, no luck.
The machine will boot into single-user mode. So, if I had the Unix knowledge, I could theoretically check the trash to see if I threw out the font, then if not, move it back to the System/Library/Fonts folder. Would this involve changing permissions for that folder? Can this be done from the single-user command line prompt, and what is the appropriate sequence of Unix commands?
Any other suggestions for a fix? I'd settle for fixing the CD drive and then I could proceed with the font issue, but at this point, I figure it's gonna be hard to do anything until I can boot up the system.
Thank you for any help you can offer!
ishan - Feb 3, 2006 - 10:33 am
I would connect your G4 to any other macintosh with a Firewire port running 10.x in Target mode and copy over the Lucida Grande font to your hard drive, then use the Font Book utility to install the font back into your System folder. Alternatively, if you have an external drive with 10.x on it, you could do the same.
Also, please make backups of your drive; in this kind of situation, it really helps...but you knew that already
HTH and please let us know what happens. Thanks.
Also, please make backups of your drive; in this kind of situation, it really helps...but you knew that already
HTH and please let us know what happens. Thanks.
MDprepress - Feb 3, 2006 - 11:20 am
Thanks, Ishan. I got the same advice from another tech forum and plan to try that once I get in to work today.
MDprepress - Feb 3, 2006 - 6:35 pm
Worked as advertised. That is a neat trick I will have to remember. Meanwhile, I think I'll head to my local bookstore and brush up on my Unix.
Thanks, again.
MDprepress
Thanks, again.
MDprepress
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