Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:16661] Problem running irb with Ruby 1.6.4 under FreeBSD 4.0"
    on 01/06/21, Bob Alexander <balexander / rsv.ricoh.com> writes:

|I've installed Ruby 1.6.4 on a FreeBSD 4.0 machine, and get the
|following error when starting irb. Version 1.6.3 works okay. Anyone know
|a fix??
|
|Bob

|/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.6/kconv.rb:1:in `require': Undefined symbol
|"_Init_nkf" -

nkf.so does not depend on any other dynamic library, so that it's hard
to see "Undefined symbol" error.

Hmm, can you load any other dynamic link extensions on your machine?
For example, would

  require "etc"

success?

							matz.