Jabber4R stalls on Thread.stop in session.rb

Has anyone successfully had Jabber4R working lately?

The following command will never complete:

session = Jabber::Session.bind_digest('blah@server/name',

‘password’)

It stalls on a Thread.stop() inside Session#initialise. I’ve seen
previous messages to this effect from 2005 and 2004, but no solutions
as yet.