diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 68abdc83a3..517335eb99 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+Wed Sep  6 13:25:04 2006  Yukihiro Matsumoto  <matz@ruby-lang.org>
+
+	* parse.y (symbols_i): need to initialize early-created symbols.
+	  [ruby-dev:29496]
+
 Wed Sep 06 12:05:19 2006  NARUSE, Yui  <naruse@ruby-lang.org>
 
 	* ext/nkf/lib/kconv.rb (Kconv::toeuc): remove -m0 [ruby-dev:29505]
diff --git a/parse.y b/parse.y
index 6637bba246..a9ad0673de 100644
--- a/parse.y
+++ b/parse.y
@@ -8532,6 +8532,9 @@ rb_id2name(ID id)
 static int
 symbols_i(VALUE sym, ID value, VALUE ary)
 {
+    if (!RBASIC(sym)->klass) {
+	RBASIC(sym)->klass = rb_cSymbol;
+    }
     rb_ary_push(ary, sym);
     return ST_CONTINUE;
 }