On 01/04/2012 06:33 AM, SanskritFritz wrote: > I started a topic on the forum, but we didnt reach to any solution: > https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=129528 > > In hope for a more competent audience, I repost my question now here: > > It looks like there is an archlinux specific problem with logkeys: > http://code.google.com/p/logkeys/issues/detail?id=60 > I also am hit by this, and would like to ask for your help guys. Any > idea what could cause this? > In a nutshell: > > strace -f logkeys -s > shows that the logfile could not be written for some reason: > [pid 10516] write(1, "Logging started ...\n\n2011-11-02 "..., 48) = -1 > EBADF (Bad file descriptor) > > The comments all have in common that they use archlinux, hence I dared > to post here. Huh. logkeys apparently does some stunny fuff with stdout (stdout=freopen(fname, "a", stdout) instead of just fopen'ing a new file) - changing that to be more "normal" fixes the problem for me. Attached is my patch for this. (I'll also stick it on the issue tracker.) -- Scott Lawrence
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