Upgrade to Jaunty, pykeylogger stopped...
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Upon upgrade from Intrepid to Jaunty, Ubuntu/Kubuntu, keylogger stopped working altogether. It's almost as if the pyhook does not respond to keypress nor image grab. Something definitely changed and I am not knowledgeable enough to find out what in the world happened. I had it working before the upgrade and all throughout the upgrade. As soon as I restarted the computer, it said that it is running, but was not logging anything. Could you help?
Hi,
Please try running it in debug mode and see what the output is. (and paste it here)
Could be any number of reasons why it stopped working... maybe they disabled the X record extension in the default X config?
Haven't made the upgrade to jaunty myself yet, so don't know for sure what's in it. :)
This is the output of: python keylogger.pyw -d
RECORD extension version 1.13
2009-05-09 12:06:18,726 logwriter DEBUG Flushing file write buffers due to timer
Any ideas?
And nothing at all happens when you type stuff or click on stuff?
Strange... Hmm, nope, no ideas at all...
the record extension seems to be present. there's no output that would indicate a problem... i have no idea what it could be.
I'll just have to get my hands on a jaunty livecd and play with it myself to see if i can figure it out.
Hi
Well, it appears that it is the fault of a bug in the xserver.
See the following bugreports on launchpad for info:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg-server/+bug/315456
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/workrave/+bug/332716
Currently, X /claims/ to have the record module, so pykeylogger doesn't get any error messages, but then it doesn't actually do anything under it.
Until this is fixed in upstream (xserver), looks like pykeylogger will not be usable on ubuntu Jaunty.