Hey Jens, Those are some great suggestions. I’ll try to do some more cleaning and see if I can get Xcode to behave again.
Thanks. Doug > On Dec 21, 2015, at 11:07 AM, Jens Alfke <j...@mooseyard.com> wrote: > > >> On Dec 21, 2015, at 10:12 AM, Doug Hill <xcodeus...@breaqz.com >> <mailto:xcodeus...@breaqz.com>> wrote: >> >> Given the general whackiness of this problem, and the fact that I appear to >> be an isolated incident, I decided to go the route of reinstalling a new >> Xcode, and if that doesn’t help, a new system. Something fun to do over the >> holidays. > > In principle reinstalling Xcode shouldn’t make any difference because the > entire app package is read-only. > Deleting all of the cache/pref/app-support files created by Xcode might help, > though, though it can be tricky to find all of them. > > Given that this involves weird characters, I’m wondering if the crash might > involve fonts — perhaps CoreText is going nuts trying to find or use a font > that can handle whatever glyphs are in the text, due to some sort of > corruption. You could try moving aside any 3rd party fonts in ~/Library/Fonts > and /Library/Fonts. Also the Font Book app has a “Font First Aid” command > that’s supposed to root out bad font files. > > Also try creating a new user account, logging in with that, and seeing how > Xcode behaves. If it works fine there, you know the problem is something in > your ~/Library. > > —Jens
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