#1100782 rtorrent: Keyboard input doesn't work

Package:
rtorrent
Source:
rtorrent
Description:
ncurses BitTorrent client based on LibTorrent from rakshasa
Submitter:
Balint J Biro
Date:
2025-04-05 23:12:02 UTC
Severity:
normal
#1100782#5
Date:
2025-03-18 17:08:58 UTC
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Dear Maintainer,


   * What led up to the situation?

Updating the system, rtorrent doesn't take keyboard input anymore.

   * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
     ineffective)?

Verified it's not my terminal or screen that causes it.

   * What was the outcome of this action?

Still broken.

   * What outcome did you expect instead?

I expect rtorrent to respond to keyboard input.
#1100782#10
Date:
2025-03-22 14:15:32 UTC
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I can reproduce this bug in foot terminal (Wayland). No keystroke works now.
#1100782#15
Date:
2025-03-27 11:21:30 UTC
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I tried clearing out session directory and rt-idx and starting from
scratch.
While there were no torrents, keyboard worked. After some time adding
torrents (moving from
the old rt-idx), keyboard stops responding. When I kill rtorrent with a
kill command, (some of ?) the keystrokes
I sent trying if the keyboard works appear in the command line, like
rtorrent closed it's stdin or
just very strongly rejected reading from keyboard.
#1100782#20
Date:
2025-04-02 17:57:27 UTC
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This bug seems fixed in my system. I don't know what was the problem, but now
keyboard works again in rtorrent.
#1100782#25
Date:
2025-04-05 23:09:04 UTC
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severity 1100782 important
thanks

Hi Balint,

not everyone uses rtorrent via tty. XMLRPC is also possible. This issue is
at best important severity, i.e. doesn't warrent rtorrent's removal from
testing.

Lowering accordingly.

Hope you can find a fix for the issue.