Error 13 after packed with pyinstaller

Hi,

I recently wrote a program with PyQt5 which uses keyboard module. The program run well as .py with sudo, before packing as .app file with pyinstaller. After packing, the console shows that I’m not running the .app as administrator. But, the error shows even I run with sudo.

I submit new issue on the pyinstaller. It’s been a month that I posted. Then I tried to include the keyboard into source code instead of importing as a installed third-party module. But the problem remains. So I’m guessing that maybe there’s something to do with the module itself.

To reproduce the problem, see the issue I wrote on the pyinstaller project.

Let me know if you need more information.

Thanks.

[glitchassassin]

If you’re not using the key listener, you can safely ignore the error: it should have no impact on running your program.

I am not sure about the steps needed to run a pyinstaller build as sudo. There are some ideas on this StackOverflow thread, but I haven’t tried any of them myself.

It might be a good idea to see if keyboard can be refactored to only launch the root-level thread if the listener is being activated, rather than by default; this will eliminate those extra errors. In addition, it looks like the root privilege escalation must happen after the program is loaded: if so, the thread really shouldn’t be launched until that escalation has had a chance to happen anyways.

[skys215]

@glitchassassin As I mentioned in the issue that I reported on pyinstaller project, I have run the project as root, but it still got no permission to bind the hotkey. Or maybe I should run getuid() or some function else to check if I’m running the program as sudoer or not even I run with sudo? I’ll check that later.