diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 7918e73727ed3d069ed364f05c24a091ceb2d1b4..b0e9ca19a6d7d2ea809f2ba4317af0d85552be46 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2009-02-06 Chris Allegretta <chrisa@asty.org>
+	* rcfile.c (parse_include): Abort on being unable to open an included rcfile.  Fixes
+	  Savannah bug 25490, nanorc: "include"ing a file which doesn't exist causes nano to segfault.
+
 2009-02-05 Chris Allegretta <chrisa@asty.org>
 	* More color syntax speedups:  Determine in reset_multis() whether we really need to call
 	  edit_refresh().  Additional global var edit_refresh_needed() to hopefully reduce
diff --git a/src/rcfile.c b/src/rcfile.c
index 5bbaa0f3da80e68896dcc9e11fbd7194d31f0c1e..d0d985c1a3635295898327b1ea0f32d692708e25 100644
--- a/src/rcfile.c
+++ b/src/rcfile.c
@@ -495,6 +495,7 @@ void parse_include(char *ptr)
     if ((rcstream = fopen(option, "rb")) == NULL) {
 	rcfile_error(_("Error reading %s: %s"), option,
 		strerror(errno));
+	return;
     }
 
     /* Use the name and line number position of the new syntax file