Canceling Download Makes Further Downloads Impossible

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Start a download
2. Cancel it
3. Try and download another show

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
It allows it to cancel but then any other shows that I try to download hang and 
do nothing.  
Quitting the program and restarting doesn't fix the problem.  Only a computer 
restart, or waiting 
for a really long time and then relaunching the program fixes the problem.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
1.3 OS X 10.5.5

Please provide any additional information below.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by smacdiarmid on 7 Nov 2008 at 6:16

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Sounds like cancelling the download didn't kill off all the helper applications 
(and
if those are currently running, it's impossible to successfully run more).

  Oddly enough, hitting cancel OR quitting iTiVo is supposed to kill them all.

  Start the 'activity monitor' (Applications/Utilities), and look for instances of

  'curl', 'tivodecode', 'mencoder', and 'comskip'

  If those are running, you should kill them, and I'll need to figure out why iTiVo
is failing to kill them itself.  If none of those were running, then my guess is
wrong, and I have to figure out why it's failing anyways....

Original comment by yoav.yer...@gmail.com on 7 Nov 2008 at 6:43

• Changed state: Accepted
• Added labels: Priority-High
• Removed labels: Priority-Medium

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Hmm.. I just noticed that the code assumes that usernames are all-lowercase.  
If you
open up a terminal and type

  whoami

What username does it get (are there any uppercase letters in it or spaces?). 
Changing the code to accept anything that is non-whitespace.  I wonder if that 
was
the bug

Original comment by yoav.yer...@gmail.com on 7 Nov 2008 at 6:46

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When I type whoami in the terminal it gives me my username which contains no 
uppercase letters or spaces.  So 
that must not be the issue, at least in my case.

Original comment by smacdiarmid on 7 Nov 2008 at 3:03

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I may have figured it out.  I was running the new version 1.3 off of my desktop 
for testing purposes.  Since I 
moved it to my applications folder I have not had this issue yet.  Could that 
have been causing the problem?

Original comment by smacdiarmid on 7 Nov 2008 at 3:35

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I don't *think* it should cause problems, but at least I'm glad to see you got 
it
fixed (I run temporary new version out of different locations without issue).  
So
clearly something is up, but at least installing it fixes it.

  I unfortunately can't reproduce this problem here.  If it happens again, can you
open up a terminal.app and run

ps -jAww -o command | grep -e 'iTiVo.app'

and include the output?   I want to try and figure out why it's not finding your
applications to kill..

  Moving it to Priority-low for now since we have a 'workaround' and I can't work on
the bug until I can reproduce it.

Original comment by yoav.yer...@gmail.com on 7 Nov 2008 at 4:42

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• Removed labels: Priority-High

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assuming this hasn't happened since you 'installed' the app?

  Marking it as 'fixed' I guess.  if more people report this as an issue I'll just
add it to the faq.

Original comment by yoav.yer...@gmail.com on 9 Nov 2008 at 6:02

• Changed state: Fixed