Comments on: iChat/iSight and Postgres Memory Bug

By: Jesse Costello-Good

Jesse Costello-Good — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Holy sh*t! I can’t believe that this was the issue. I tried everything to try to get this working. All I had to do was shut down the pg database. Thanks so much for this page, I’ve been waiting months to resolve this problem. I’ll try to post on apple discussion boards too. Any luck with more recent versions of Postgres?

By: Jesse Costello-Good

Jesse Costello-Good — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Or is it a port issue?

http://www.entropy.ch/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?t=1564

But I changed the port to 5433 and that didn’t help.

By: Eric

Eric — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Murray-

Thanks so much for posting this information! Your solution showed up in a google search. I had scoured the apple discussion boards looking for a fix.

I shutdown postgres and boom! My iSight camera works like a charm in iChat. I posted a followup on the appropriate discussion on the Apple boards. Thanks!

By: Ed

Ed — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Been struggling with this one for a while… we thought it was our routers at first.

Thanks so much for this info!

By: Audun Rundberg

Audun Rundberg — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

I encountered this problem about a month ago on my Powerbook, and haven’t been able to find a plausible cause for it until now.

Hope this will fix things when I get around to trying it.

By: Kurt

Kurt — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

What a find! This problem affected both my Powerbook G4 and my G5 desktop. I was about to give up after tweaking firewall settings and trying everything else I could think of. Shutting down PostgreSQL worked perfectly.

I tried to increase my shared memory size, as recommended in one of the articles linked above. Didn’t work for me, even when I increased from 4MB to 128MB. I am using OS X Tiger 10.4.1.

By: Clive Jevons

Clive Jevons — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

WOAH! I would *never* have thought of that. Thank you thank you thank you thank you I was just about to take the iSight back to the store, as well So not only has your insight helped me VChat with my wife and daughter again, but it also saved me a long and unnecessary walk, too
Cheers,
C

By: Drake

Drake — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Does anybody know why? I can’t believe that this is really true!
But often the things are not as they seem to be in this coloured world…

By: Joe Fleck

Joe Fleck — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

THANK YOU FOr this…… I would NEVER have put these two together………

I was GOING BATTY reinstalling ichat and such.

THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!

By: Kris Hagel

Kris Hagel — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Another thing just for anyone who may not already know it. Apple Remote Desktop also uses Postgres for something (I can’t remember what). For me the solution to this was to stop my sharing of my Desktop over ARD. That killed the Postgres processes and allowed the camera to finally connect. Quite strange that Apple wouldn’t have isolated this problem being that two of their applications could be the ones causing the problem.