Mounting a smart watch drive
by Chris Kottaridis
I have a Garmin Fenix 5 watch. When I plug it into a Windows box it gets
recognized as an E: drive with a FAT filesystem and I can see lots of
files there.
When I plug it into a Fedora 29 machine updated all packages just
yesterday it doesn't seem to automount anywhere and I haven't been able
to identify if it gets a device name that I could use to mount it.
Has anyone tried to mount a Garmin Fenix 5 smart watch ?
Pointers recommendations or suggestions appeciated.
Thanks
Chris K
5 years, 1 month
Evolution Memory Consumption
by Earl Ramirez
Dear Fedora Community,
I have been using Evolution client for many years now and it seems that after
each upgrade Evolution is getting more greedy for memory, I was humble when it
use to consume 2GB of RAM but now I have seen it consuming up 8GB of RAM which I
believe is not normal.
I restarted evolution a few hours ago and it's already at 4+ GB, does anyone
know if there is a way to manage the memory consumption of this application?
Below is it's consumption and as I am typing this email it has already increased
to 4.6.
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
23508 eramirez 20 0 104.0g 4.3g 97064 S 7.3 13.9 55:24.16 evolution
Does this mean time to start searching for replacement?
Thanks in advance
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Earl Ramirez <earlaramirez(a)gmail.com>
5 years, 1 month
Re: Urgent: Can't print
by ToddAndMargo
On 3/8/19 7:42 PM, Robert Marmorstein wrote:
> If it's an HP, try running hp-plugin-i from the terminal?
okidata B4350
5 years, 1 month
SMB permissions -
by Bob Goodwin
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I have a fedora samba server that works ok however I can't save to it
except as root. The apple users can do whatever they need, save to it
and create directories when they want. I have to run Thunar as root or
use sftp to do those things from Fedora29, actually through a number of
versions, don't remember when things changed. I don't use it often and
have just lived with the problem.
I mount it on /mnt/box48 and the problem seems to be permissions:
[bobg@Box83 ~]$ ll /mnt/
drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 0 Mar 3 12:11 box48
I can't chmod it -
[root@Box83 mnt]# chmod 777 /mnt/box48
It just ignores the command.
This is not critical, just annoying, but I would like to fix it. What do
I have wrong, any suggestions appreciated.
Bob
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Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA
http://www.qrz.com/db/W2BOD
box83 FEDORA-29/64bit LINUX XFCE Fastmail POP3
5 years, 1 month
OT: fetchmail config
by Tom Horsley
Anyone know if there is a relatively simple way to
"fetchall" mail from one IMAP folder and "keep" mail
from a different folder without making two completely
separate "poll" entries for the same imap server in
my ~/.fetchmailrc file (basically treating the same
server like two separate servers).
5 years, 1 month
Error when reading videos with OPenCV
by Theodore Papadopoulo
On Fedora 29 (x86-64), I have trouble reading videos with OPenCV and
python3.
The script is as simple as:
import cv2
import sys
video = cv2.VideoCapture(sys.argv[1])
And the error message is:
-> python3 test.py 170621_ch1_ROI2_20h38pt.mp4
Failed to query video capabilities: Inappropriate ioctl for device
libv4l2: error getting capabilities: Inappropriate ioctl for device
VIDEOIO ERROR: V4L: device 170621_ch1_ROI2_20h38pt.mp4: Unable to query
number of channels
warning: GStreamer: unable to query duration of stream
(/builddir/build/BUILD/opencv-3.4.1/modules/videoio/src/cap_gstreamer.cpp:904)
warning: Cannot query video position: status=1 value=0 duration=-1
(/builddir/build/BUILD/opencv-3.4.1/modules/videoio/src/cap_gstreamer.cpp:952)
I have tried with other videos formats (includng nn-patent encumbered
ones such as webp or mpeg) and got the same error.
This seems remnant of some old bugs that are marked as solved in the
fedora 25/26 timeframe. Did they reappear ? Certainly, the problem was
not here two ot three years ago...
From the opencv website, it seems that the same problem is said to be
solved when building with FFMPEG which seems to be uncompatible with
free software... But since it was working a while ago, would it be
possible to restore this functionality ?? Or at the very least to get
some understandable error message ?
Thank's a lot,
Theo
5 years, 1 month
any grub/dracut wizz here? - how to move everything but boot to a new
NVMe
by lejeczek
hi everyone
I have an oldish box which is has no NVMe support, not in form of M.2
slot, but I got that cheap PCIe M.2 adapter.
Now, I have done dd my original whole drive to NVMe, then I dd my
original drive to another small SSD, fdisk it so only boot partition
remains on this "new" SSD.
Something is obviously missing there in this simplistic approach,
although kernel boots from this new small SSD it does not load the rest
of the whole system.
I am stuck with dracut.
That would be grub or/and dracut need tweaking?
Or any other way to boot a system off a NVMe via a SSD/HDD?
many thanks, L.
5 years, 1 month
Scanning Problem HP4620 , Ed Greshko.
by Ger van Dijck
Hi Ed ,
When running hp-toolbox I get the message "dbus initialisation : error
exciting" .
Running hp-check on USB Discovered scanner devices the laptop camera AND
the scanner HP4620
Running hp-check on WLAN Discovered scanner devices the laptop camera BUT
NOT the scanner HP4620 .
On USB all functions do well , On WLAN all functions , except one
(SCANNING) do well .
For me this is an enigma because a Wifi communication must be present ; So
the only problem must be the the scandevice is not requinised or the
scandriver is not installed !
Greetings ,
Ger van Dijck.
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Using Opera's mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/
5 years, 1 month
(OT) Beeping drives used for backup
by Jonathan Ryshpan
I have persistent problems with small USB hard drives that I use for
backup. The backup utility is the rsnapshot, which is set up to back
up my system incrementally every day starting about 3:00am. The backup
fails occasionally; when this happens the drive's file system is
usually corrupted, which can be repaired using fsck. So far, there has
been no perceptible loss of data.
The drive also produces an occasional beeping sound: pitch about 340
cps (my best guess using a tuner), lasting about 250 msec. The beeps
happen when the drive is in use, particularly when it's busy, and never
when the drive is starting up. The problem has happened on at least 4
different drives:WD My Passport 1 Tb
Seagate Backup Plus 2 Tb
Seagate Ultra Slim 2 TbSeagate Ultra Slim 2 Tb (replacement for
above)It starts about 6 months to a year after the drive goes into use
and persists thereafter. When the problem gets bad, I replace the
drive.
The latest drive is a replacement given to me by Seagate; they said
that the drive had failed and had to be replaced, which they did, since
it was still under warranty. It's not exactly new by refurbished. It
started to beep after being used for about 4 days.
Does anyone have an idea what's going on or how to prevent it?
Many Thanks - Jon
5 years, 1 month
Where does Nautilus mount MTP devices?
by ToddAndMargo
Hi All,
Anyone know where Nautilus (gnome files) mounts MTP
devices?
/run/user/500/gvfs
gvfs is empty. 500 is my user number.
And Nautilus work fine with my cell phone
Many thanks,
-T
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A computer without Microsoft is like
a chocolate cake without the mustard
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5 years, 1 month