Sorry to resurrect this old post - but I just ran into the problem
referenced below. I thought ruby-1.8.5-p2 would have the fix, but it did
not. Applying the patch worked for me too. I just thought it’d be good
for
folks to know.
FYI, uname -a says:
Linux C621184 2.4.21-40.EL-3 #1 Tue Nov 28 02:57:02 PST 2006 i686 i686
i386 GNU/Linux