diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 8d671d556e..d8cd7ecc8d 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+Fri Oct  9 10:12:13 2009  NARUSE, Yui  <naruse@ruby-lang.org>
+
+	* lib/irb/context.rb (IRB::Context#initialize):
+	  remove warnings when $VERBOSE is set as true in .irbrc.
+
 Fri Oct  9 02:58:18 2009  NARUSE, Yui  <naruse@ruby-lang.org>
 
 	* tool/enc-unicode.rb: optimized.
diff --git a/lib/irb/context.rb b/lib/irb/context.rb
index a2778f76ab..d7822d6f27 100644
--- a/lib/irb/context.rb
+++ b/lib/irb/context.rb
@@ -35,6 +35,8 @@ module IRB
       @load_modules = IRB.conf[:LOAD_MODULES]
 
       @use_readline = IRB.conf[:USE_READLINE]
+      @verbose = IRB.conf[:VERBOSE]
+      @io = nil
 
       self.inspect_mode = IRB.conf[:INSPECT_MODE]
       self.math_mode = IRB.conf[:MATH_MODE] if IRB.conf[:MATH_MODE]
@@ -91,7 +93,6 @@ module IRB
 	@output_method = StdioOutputMethod.new
       end
 
-      @verbose = IRB.conf[:VERBOSE]
       @echo = IRB.conf[:ECHO]
       if @echo.nil?
 	@echo = true