[perl #126390] [BUG] await start {} hangs when using HTTP::UserAgent

On Wed, 30 Dec 2015 09:12:25 -0800, [email protected] wrote:
> To give an update on this. With Rakudo built on Dec 30, 2015, I no
> longer get any hangs with neither
> perl6 -MURI -e 'await start { say URI.new("http://localhost") };'
> 
> nor perl6 -MIETF::RFC_Grammar::URI -e "await Promise.in(1).then({
> require IETF::RFC_Grammar::URI });"
> 
> This is on Debian Wheezy. I tried both on 32bit 2-core and 64bit 1-
> core boxes.

This problem has been fixed. Part of the problem seems to have been the
use of require in a thread, i.e. RT #126587.