How to disable logging on an original Inovato Quadra running HamClock to prevent the log from filling up.

If you have the Quadra 4K, see here.

There’s a bug somewhere which stops the log tidying working correctly on some installations of HamClock, including the original Inovato Quadra.

As a temporary fix, it’s possible to start HamClock with logging disabled and this will describe how to do that.

First, close HamClock. Click the padlock on the main screen, select Exit HamClock, then click Ok, and then Ok again.

Now you need to get to the terminal. You can do it either from the desktop, or from a different PC using the SSH command.

Enter the following command to delete the existing logs:

sudo rm .hamclock/diagnostic-log*

If you are prompted for a password, it is 1n0v@t0

Then enter the following commands:

sudo cp /usr/local/bin/hamclock-xrandr-wrapper /usr/local/bin/hamclock-xrandr-wrapper.old

sudo nano /usr/local/bin/hamclock-xrandr-wrapper

If you get this message, just press enter.

You’ll get a screen like this (it may not be identical):

Now you’re going to modify it to add the -o switch, directly before the -f switch. Use the cursor keys to move around and type -o (that’s a dash and a lower case letter o) before -f.

It’ll look similar to this. It may not be identical with the other switches, but the important thing is to get the -o before the -f:

Check, double check and check again to make sure you’ve done it properly.

Press CTRL-X, you’ll get a prompt that says ‘Save modified buffer?’, press the Y key and then press enter.

Now reboot your Quadra.

sudo reboot now

Your Quadra will restart, logging is disabled and the internal flash memory won’t fill up.

If you do a master factory reset on your Quadra, you will need to repeat this process, and when this issue is resolved, you will need to restore the backup copy of the wrapper file.