Bug#651500: ttytter: Returns to shell prompt after downloading feed and repeatedly, displays error message

[Dom]

I have encountered this bug too, and have investigated further.

The problem is caused by ttytter's use of SIGPWR to communicate between 
the backend and frontend. As soon as this signal is sent, the frontend 
is killed with a Power failure error.


I have made the author of ttytter aware of this and he is going to look 
at other methods of signalling.


I suggested using SIGUSR1, but apparently that causes breakage if 
ttytter is used with Term::ReadLine::TTYtter.


(I don't use Term::ReadLine::TTYtter, and altered the program to use 
SIGUSR1, which now runs correctly).


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Bug#651500: ttytter: Returns to shell prompt after downloading feed and repeatedly displays error message

[Jason White]

Package: ttytter
Version: 1.2.4-1
Severity: normal

When I run this version of TTYtter, it downloads the latest posts from my
contacts but, instead of returning to the TTYtter prompt, it returns to the
shell prompt.

However, ps shows that TTYtter is still running, and it continues to write the
following error message to the terminal after the shell prompt has returned:
-- sorry, nothing to display.

To reproduce the bug, run ttytter with posts awaiting download.

I'm using Identica, but that might not matter for present purposes.

 -- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 
'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.1.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages ttytter depends on:
ii  curl  7.23.1-2
ii  perl  5.14.2-6

Versions of packages ttytter recommends:
ii  libterm-readline-gnu-perl  1.20-2+b1
ii  libtimedate-perl   1.2000-1

ttytter suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information



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