I'm running 10.3.8 on a G5 and the startup process has recently slowed
down substantially. Everything runs fine up to the login screen, but
once I log in it takes a long, long time to load the desktop. I watched
this process from another machine via ssh and it appears that the
atsserver is running for the bulk of the time that I'm watching the
rainbow pizza spin around. I don't have an excessive number of fonts
on my machine, but this is clearly slowing things down. Is it possible
I have a corrupt font somewhere? Is there a way to check this? Any help
here would be much appreciated.

Thanks

Do some of the obvious things like resetting the PRAM, do a disk repair, and
repair the disk permissions using Disk Utility, after that download a good
Mac Optimizer and use that to clean the various system and browser caches.
All of those things should improve boot up time for you.

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> I'm running 10.3.8 on a G5 and the startup process has recently slowed
> down substantially. Everything runs fine up to the login screen, but
> once I log in it takes a long, long time to load the desktop. I watched
> this process from another machine via ssh and it appears that the
> atsserver is running for the bulk of the time that I'm watching the
> rainbow pizza spin around. I don't have an excessive number of fonts
> on my machine, but this is clearly slowing things down. Is it possible
> I have a corrupt font somewhere? Is there a way to check this? Any help
> here would be much appreciated.
>
> Thanks
>

<raindogs_1******.com> wrote:

> I'm running 10.3.8 on a G5 and the startup process has recently slowed
> down substantially. Everything runs fine up to the login screen, but
> once I log in it takes a long, long time to load the desktop. I watched
> this process from another machine via ssh and it appears that the
> atsserver is running for the bulk of the time that I'm watching the
> rainbow pizza spin around. I don't have an excessive number of fonts
> on my machine, but this is clearly slowing things down. Is it possible
> I have a corrupt font somewhere? Is there a way to check this? Any help
> here would be much appreciated.

See <http://daringfireball.net/2005/03/font_caches_gone_wild>.