I believe that when I’ve seen this in the past, it was due to font-related issues. If you haven’t disabled any fonts recently, try deleting the font caches – Gruber lists their locations here.
I had this happen a couple of weeks ago. system.log indicated that ATSServer had crashed. I started quitting apps in prep of a full restart, but ATSServer relaunched and was cool again. Sigh.
September 27th, 2007 at 13:36:19
I believe that when I’ve seen this in the past, it was due to font-related issues. If you haven’t disabled any fonts recently, try deleting the font caches – Gruber lists their locations here.
October 1st, 2007 at 20:41:06
I had this happen a couple of weeks ago. system.log indicated that ATSServer had crashed. I started quitting apps in prep of a full restart, but ATSServer relaunched and was cool again. Sigh.
October 1st, 2007 at 22:06:18
rentzsch: Yeah, that sounds about like my situation, too. It fixed itself a few hours later.