Can't stop WEBrick 1.3.1 with ctrl-c on Ubuntu 11.04

Question

I\'m using RVM, Ruby 1.9.2, and Rails 3.0.7

A standard kill of the process from another terminal doesn\'t work, either, but kill -9 does, of course.

I found

Answer 1

Ok, the issue has been resolved for me. A recent kernel update, which I applied as part of Ubuntu's standard updates, fixed the problem.

Also, here is a good discussion of the issue, which explains that the root cause was a kernel regression introduced in 2.6.38 ( http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/4777 )

The regression was patched, and it looks like the patch recently made it into Ubuntu's updates, so if you're being affected by this issue, you should apply the latest updates.