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Legacy Python 2 version of AutoKey, the desktop automation utility for Linux and X11.
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AutoKey Stops Running Macros And Phrases #34

Closed josephj11 closed 7 years ago

josephj11 commented 9 years ago

Sometimes (I don't know how to recreate it), AutoKey stops running macros. It seems like part of it has crashed. The main Window is still accessible and I can quit AutoKey, but nothing seems to fix the problem until I kill (pkill autokey) the remaining AutoKey process and restart it.

At this point I'm just registering the existence of the problem. I don't know how to document it further.

This is autokey 0.09.4.1 (gtk) running under Kubuntu Precise (12.04) with KDE 4.14.2.

jpwgarrison commented 8 years ago

Same issue with Ubuntu 14.04, I3 here. I have a cronjob kill and restart it every 10 minutes and this mostly works, unless I happen to try an expansion as the cronjob runs. 20 minutes was too long.

josephj11 commented 8 years ago

It only happens to me once every few days. Since you see it so much more often, maybe you can gather some clues as to what's happening.

Is there anything special about the particular macros or phrases you are using?

Does it have anything to do with how frequently they are run or how long they take to process?

Can you run AutoKey in trace mode and get it to happen?

Problem Reporting Guide (We really need all of the requested information because your setup is undoubtedly different that ours and we won't know what's important until after it's diagnosed.) If you can do that, we can see what it was trying to do when it froze. Also, does anything appear in the system log? It would be at the end if you catch it right when it happens. Otherwise you'll have to save it to a file so you can search through and then cut and paste anything suspicious into a post here. dmesg

bienstock commented 7 years ago

I've encountered the same issue (software stops pasting passwords after some time) and have found the following errors appear in the log file several times:

2017-01-15 11:58:56,002 ERROR - interface - Error in X event loop thread Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/autokey/interface.py", line 116, in eventLoop method(*args) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/autokey/interface.py", line 807, in handleKeyPress focus = self.localDisplay.get_input_focus().focus File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/Xlib/display.py", line 566, in get_input_focus return request.GetInputFocus(display = self.display) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/Xlib/protocol/rq.py", line 1478, in init self.reply() File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/Xlib/protocol/rq.py", line 1490, in reply self._display.send_and_recv(request = self._serial) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/Xlib/protocol/display.py", line 556, in send_and_recv gotreq = self.parse_response(request) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/Xlib/protocol/display.py", line 656, in parse_response gotreq = self.parse_error_response(request) or gotreq File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/Xlib/protocol/display.py", line 710, in parse_error_response self.default_error_handler(e) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/Xlib/protocol/display.py", line 716, in default_error_handler sys.stderr.write('X protocol error:\n%s\n' % err) IOError: [Errno 5] Input/output error

josephj11 commented 7 years ago

Thanks. It's about time somebody found something concrete on this one!

Unfortunately, we don't have a developer to address problems in the code. (But the autokey-py3 branch does have an active developer.)