On Tue, 22 Nov 2005, Eric K wrote:

> I just upraded to Ruby 1.8.3 (from sources) on my Redhat Linux box.
> When I attempt to do anything that starts a new thread, I receive the
> message "ThreadError: uninitialized thread - check
> `Thread#initialize'".  Below is a transcript from a one-line session in
> IRB that demonstrates the problem.  Any ideas?  (Please let me know if
> there is other information that would be helpful in diagnosing this.)
>
> irb(main):001:0> Thread.new { puts 'hi' }
> ThreadError: uninitialized thread - check `Thread#initialize'
>        from (irb):1:in `new'
>        from (irb):1
> irb(main):002:0>

can you show us how you compiled ruby?

-a
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