On 6/10/05, nobuyoshi nakada <nobuyoshi.nakada / ge.com> wrote: > The test exited immediately after printing the prompt, on my box. > What are your platform, ruby and readline versions? > I've experienced same problem with OP. $ ldd /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/i686-linux/readline.so | grep readline libreadline.so.4 => /lib/libreadline.so.4 (0xb7f00000) $ ruby -v ruby 1.8.2 (2004-12-25) [i686-linux] Same on the 1.9 (March). -- http://nohmad.sub-port.net