Bug #61782 WB hanging when opening SQL Editor
Submitted: 7 Jul 2011 11:51 Modified: 27 Jan 2012 4:22
Reporter: Michael G. Zinner Email Updates:
Status: Closed Impact on me:
None 
Category:MySQL Workbench: SQL Editor Severity:S1 (Critical)
Version:5.2.34 OS:MacOS
Assigned to: Mike Lischke CPU Architecture:Any

[7 Jul 2011 11:51] Michael G. Zinner 
Description:
workbench seems to 'require' the andale mono font, but has no fallback set. if andale mono is not available it will bork bork. i don't have it available, because i do quite a lot of designing and often switch fonts (with tools like fontexplorer)

the error is in the WBSQLQueryPanel method initWithBE where setFont is explicitly called

How to repeat:
Remove andale mono font from system

Suggested fix:
Fall back using a different font, e.g. Monaco or other fixed length fonts
[7 Jul 2011 12:26] Bas Kok 
Note that the reason a user might have for disabling default fonts like Andale Mono might be to use other fonts for design purposes (designers usually have large font collections, and only activate a small set in order to keep system resources low).

Note that WB does boot when Andale is not available, only when one tries to query a specific database it hangs 'connecting...'.
[27 Jan 2012 4:22] Philip Olson 
Fixed as of 5.2.37:

Workbench required the Andale Mono font.