Just now, I looked at Console Messages and system.log in the Console application. I saw thousands of repetitions of messages like the following:
Dec 30 00:01:54 MyName-2 com.apple.quicklook[39867]:
Sun Dec 30 00:01:54 MyName-2.local quicklookd[39867] <Error>:
ATSFontFindFromContainer failed: count = 2.
(I added line breaks to make it readable; the above was all one line. Also, "MyName" replaces the original string, which was the name of my Mac.)
From the reference to quicklook and quicklookd, I suspect Spotlight is implicated somehow. ATSFontFindFromContainer sounds like a reference to Apple Type Services. But I haven't been able to find more.
I'd like an explanation for which piece of software generates this message, what kind of a problem it signifies, and how to prevent the problem from occurring.
I'm running Mac OS X 10.5.8 (Leopard) on a Mac Powerbook of year 2007 vintage.
To give you an idea of the torrential flood of these messages, here's an excerpt from system.log which gives counts of repetitions (I make 922 here, there were more from the same few seconds). In Console Messages all the duplicates were present.
Dec 30 00:01:48 MyName-2 com.apple.quicklook[39867]:
Sun Dec 30 00:01:48 MyName-2.local quicklookd[39867] <Error>:
ATSFontFindFromContainer failed: count = 2.
Dec 30 00:01:54: --- last message repeated 61 times ---
Dec 30 00:01:49 MyName-2 com.apple.quicklook[39867]:
Sun Dec 30 00:01:49 MyName-2.local quicklookd[39867] <Error>:
ATSFontFindFromContainer failed: count = 2.
Dec 30 00:01:54: --- last message repeated 165 times ---
Dec 30 00:01:50 MyName-2 com.apple.quicklook[39867]:
Sun Dec 30 00:01:50 MyName-2.local quicklookd[39867] <Error>:
ATSFontFindFromContainer failed: count = 2.
Dec 30 00:01:54: --- last message repeated 175 times ---
Dec 30 00:01:51 MyName-2 com.apple.quicklook[39867]:
Sun Dec 30 00:01:51 MyName-2.local quicklookd[39867] <Error>:
ATSFontFindFromContainer failed: count = 2.
Dec 30 00:01:54: --- last message repeated 178 times ---
Dec 30 00:01:52 MyName-2 com.apple.quicklook[39867]:
Sun Dec 30 00:01:52 MyName-2.local quicklookd[39867] <Error>:
ATSFontFindFromContainer failed: count = 2.
Dec 30 00:01:54: --- last message repeated 158 times ---
Dec 30 00:01:53 MyName-2 com.apple.quicklook[39867]:
Sun Dec 30 00:01:53 MyName-2.local quicklookd[39867] <Error>:
ATSFontFindFromContainer failed: count = 2.
Dec 30 00:01:54: --- last message repeated 176 times ---
Dec 30 00:01:54 MyName-2 com.apple.quicklook[39867]:
Sun Dec 30 00:01:54 MyName-2.local quicklookd[39867] <Error>:
ATSFontFindFromContainer failed: count = 2.
Dec 30 00:03:18: --- last message repeated 19 times ---
(Again, I inserted line breaks to make the error messages easier to read.)
