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
@@ -488,10 +488,14 @@ class IOTopUI(object):
             self.win.refresh()
 
 def run_iotop_window(win, options):
+    global terminating
+    terminating = False
     if options.batch:
         signal.signal(signal.SIGPIPE, signal.SIG_DFL)
     else:
         def clean_exit(*args, **kwargs):
+            global terminating
+            terminating = True
             sys.exit(0)
         signal.signal(signal.SIGINT, clean_exit)
         signal.signal(signal.SIGTERM, clean_exit)
@@ -499,6 +503,7 @@ def run_iotop_window(win, options):
     process_list = ProcessList(taskstats_connection, options)
     ui = IOTopUI(win, process_list, options)
     ui.run()
+    terminating = True
 
 def run_iotop(options):
     try:
@@ -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 terminating and 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
 
 #
 # Profiling