The CharPaletteServer did freeze when I was using Pages, now it keeps opening and closing when any window opens in any software. It flashes on in the activity monitor, but closes too fast for me to force quit it. Any ideas on how to stop this from happening?
When it opens, the window has characters in the title bar but the actual window is blank.
When I try to open directly from Pages, it tries to open but flashes off quickly.
I've had exactly the same problem, which persists even after restarting (MacBook, 10.5.8). The problem started when I chose 'Special Characters' when using Keynote (version 3.0.2). A temporary solution is to uncheck 'Characters Pallet' in 'International' in System Preferences, but returns if I choose 'Special Characters' again.
Opening Terminal I find these lines (minus date / time info):
com.apple.launchd[69] ([0x0-0x185185].com.apple.CharPaletteServer[10318]) Exited abnormally: Trace/BPT trap
CharPaletteServer[10315] An uncaught exception was raised
CharPaletteServer[10315] *** -[NSCFArray insertObject
tIndex:]: attempt to insert nil
CharPaletteServer[10315] *** Terminating app due to uncaught exception 'NSInvalidArgumentException', reason: '*** -[NSCFArray insertObject
tIndex:]: attempt to insert nil'
followed by 'Stack' and a list of numbers
I only occasionally use special characters - I know the short cuts for the accents I use - so not a serious problem for now, but don't have a Time Machine backup available.