I fixed it myself!

[jeremy@gate.globalx.net (Jeremy Rand)]

  Well, I was about this close (holding my thumb and first finger
_real_ close together) to posting this looking for some help.  But
I was able to figure it out myself.  Now I am just wondering if
anyone has seen anything like this or might know why it happened.
And, I am so happy with myself for figuring it out, I had to post
something.

  It started out simple enough.  I decided to play some solitaire
so I start up the game and it dies with a 1B08 error.  So I check
it out and it is a font tool error, invalid font family.  This
worked not two weeks ago.

  I restore solitaire and the font tool from a backup and it still
doesn't help.  So now I break out the big guns and decide to do
some serious poking around.  I use GSBug to trap all the toolbox
calls that list 1B08 as a resulting error and find out that
InstallFont is what is dying.  Also, AppleWorks GS and teach no
longer work for the same reason.

  So, I move the Fonts folder to a temporary name and copy all the
fonts from my 6.0.1 install disks to a new Fonts folder.  I reboot
and sure enough everything is OK.  Now, I dread the task of going
through my fonts trying to find a bad file, but I have a stroke of
genius (well for me I guess).  I delete the font.list file and reboot
with my original font folder in tact.  Sure enough everything is
great after the system builds a new font.list file.  I was so proud
of myself for sticking it out and getting it fixed within an hour.

  Anyways, has anyone ever seen their 6.0.1 system do this?  Oh,
something I didn't mention, shift booting didn't fix the problem
(it shouldn't if the font.list file is corrupted).

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Jeremy Rand            jeremy@globalx.net
Specializing in obsolete technology, obscure interfaces, and other
commercially useless stuff.  Aim High!