WEBrick hangs

I have recently installed rails 1.1.6 . WEBrick starts like normal but does not respond to cntrl-c ; manually killing the process is a must. Interstingly, if I start WEBrick and immediately hit port 3000 w/ an HTTP request, there is about a 75% chance that the process *does* respond to crntl-c . This behavior has been consistent across both ruby 1.8.2 and 1.8.4 . Any suggestions?

Dennis Byrne