Unfortunately the upgrade still fails for my CMUCL snapshot (cmucl-2013-04) I have tried the very recent ASDF: commit 28a5c936421cdb72b218002c9b207c29bbf592d4 Author: Francois-Rene Rideau <tunes at google.com> Date: Thu Jan 9 16:58:01 2014 -0500 Bump version to 3.1.0.46