It seems like sheer coincidence that it crashes on shutdown. do_animate
is an absolutely horrific thing to call in a signal handler and we're
very lucky that it works at all.

Rather than applying this band-aid, I think it would be better to fix it
properly. Since main_loop uses select() and Linux doesn't have a working
pselect() last I checked, we'll need to use the self-pipe trick: the
SIGALRM handler should write a byte to a pipe which we monitor in
main_loop. I'm thinking of something along the lines of the attachment
but I have not tested this at all.

** Attachment added: "usplash.sigalrm.patch"
   http://launchpadlibrarian.net/18512599/usplash.sigalrm.patch

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usplash segfaults on shutdown when pulsating
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/259761
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