Re: pgAdmin 1.8RC1 - failed to launch on Mac OS X

On 05/nov/07, at 13:08, Dave Page wrote:

> Phill wrote:
>>> I have never succesfully launched pgAdmin on this computer so there
>>> are no
>>> pgAdmin files anywhere in my Library directory. By the way, Activity
>>> Monitor
>>> reports that once i lanuch pgAdmin it uses all available processor
>>> capacity.
>>>
>>> Simon
>>
>> Likewise, I don't have a pgadmin3 preferences file present.
>> Phill
>
> Somehow (and I don't know how yet) I just reproduced this on my PPC  
> box.
> Can you please start pgAdmin so it sits on the dock, and then in a
> terminal window, run
>
> ps -ef |grep pg_dump
>
> I found I had a zombie pg_dump process (pgAdmin calls pg_dump at  
> startup
> to check the version). I then renamed the copy of pg_dump in the  
> pgAdmin
> appbundle, and one I had in /usr/local/bin (you might have others in  
> the
> path of course). After I killed pgAdmin, it then started just fine.
>
> /D

Yep that's it!
Renamed pg_dump and it starts just fine.
Phill