It has been annoying to figure out that suddenly my iWork 09 is no longer working. I had to print a document today, surprisingly found out that iWork was crashing during its initialization.
I have been reading about the problem on few forum threads from Apple’s website. As you may expect from Apple, no engineer / expert detailed the problem and explained why the application was crashing with SIGBUS (invalid access to an unauthorized memory segment). Well after to do my research, figure out that many were describing custom Font related problems on their apple computers. Just to start with… I had no custom font installed (all fonts installed by default)… I also read about the Disk Utility > Repair Disk Permissions feature. I decided to give it a try and bingo it’s now working again.
So here is the steps that I did, so helpfully can work for you too:
1. Open Disk Utility and run the Repair Disk Permissions (First Aid tab).
2. Delete files from /Library/Preferences/com.apple.iWork.*
3. Reboot your system using Safe Boot (after the reboot, hit SHIFT until you see the Apple icon). Alternatively you can type on your Terminal: sudo nvram boot-args=”-x”; reboot
4. After logging… I opened the iPages. You will notice that no text will appear when you’re typing. My guess is that this happens because of Safe Boot that disables Quartz Extreme (3d accelerator).
5. Reboot again the Mac OS X
6. Log in.
7. Voilá . It is working again!
