Subject: bug#10599

From: Robley Hall <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2012 20:37:36 -0500

Reproducible on 64bit RHEL linux at version 24.0.93.2

A workaround is to include:

(require 'network-stream)
(require 'erc-backend)

Prior to starting erc.