diff -up iotop-0.6/iotop/ui.py.noendcurses iotop-0.6/iotop/ui.py

--- iotop-0.6/iotop/ui.py.noendcurses	2014-12-03 17:50:38.941430261 +0100

+++ iotop-0.6/iotop/ui.py	2014-12-03 17:51:40.108064465 +0100

@@ -520,6 +525,17 @@ Please do not file bugs on iotop about t

             sys.exit(1)

         else:

             raise

+    except curses.error as e:

+        stre = str(e)

+        if stre.find('ERR')>=0 and (

+            stre.find('nocbreak()')>=0 or stre.find('endwin()')>=0

+            ):

+            pass

+            # endwin and nocbreak can cause error (and raise hard to catch 

+            # exception) if iotop was running in the terminal and that 

+            # terminal got closed while iotop was still running

+        else:

+            raise

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