[Pkg-rust-maintainers] Bug#1115172: kanata: the service fails to start with a permission error

[Cédric Boutillier]

Package: kanata
Version: 1.9.0-2
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

Thank you very much for packaging kanata in Debian! It is great to have
it in the archive.

Unfortunately, I was not able to make it run from the systemd service:
it fails with the following error

kanata[4769]: 00:20:35.4782 [INFO] kanata v1.9.0 starting
kanata[4769]: 00:20:35.4783 [INFO] process unmapped keys: false
kanata[4769]: 00:20:35.4783 [INFO] NOTE: kanata was compiled to never allow cmd
kanata[4769]: 00:20:35.4783 [INFO] config file is valid
kanata[4769]: 00:20:35.4784 [ERROR] Failed to open the output uinput device. Make sure you've added the user executing kanata to the `uinput` group
kanata[4769]: 00:20:35.4784 [ERROR] Permission denied (os error 13)
kanata[4769]: Press enter to exit
kanata[4769]: Error: Permission denied (os error 13)
systemd[1]: kanata.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE

Is there something I could or should do to fix this permission problem?
Is the systemd service too restrictive?
Thanks in advance!

Cédric


-- System Information:
Debian Release: forky/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 6.12.38+deb13-amd64 (SMP w/12 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages kanata depends on:
ii  libc6      2.41-12
ii  libgcc-s1  15.2.0-4

kanata recommends no packages.

kanata suggests no packages.

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