Re: BUG #6164: Flashing dialog

On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 11:31 PM, Kyle Fox <kyle(dot)fox(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> I used the installer to install Postgres 9.0 on my Mac, and now every 10
> seconds a dialog message flashes and immediately disappears, and STEALS
> FOCUS.

The focus-stealing sounds like a problem coming from the EDB installer
you said you used, and you'll have to complain to those folks about
it.

> My computer is completely unusable because of the installer. How do I fix
> this? I would like to uninstall postgres entirely.
>
> Here's the output from the Console.app:
>
> 11-08-15 9:24:04 PM     Firewall[63]    postgres is listening from 0.0.0.0:5432
> proto=6
> 11-08-15 9:24:04 PM     com.edb.launchd.postgresql-8.4[426]     2011-08-15 21:24:04
> MDT FATAL:  could not create shared memory segment: Cannot allocate memory
> 11-08-15 9:24:04 PM     com.edb.launchd.postgresql-8.4[426]     2011-08-15 21:24:04
> MDT DETAIL:  Failed system call was shmget(key=5432001, size=32587776,
> 03600).

From the logs you posted, it sounds like you simply need to adjust the
shared memory segments documented here:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/kernel-resources.html

See the "MacOS X" section on that page for OS X specific instructions.

Josh