[Bese-devel] new start.lisp problems

[Marco Baringer]

Jason Wang <randomtalk at gmail.com> writes:

> hi, i have tried to start up ucw yesterday evening, after two days of
> pause.. However, it doesn't work anymore for some reason (i didn't
> touch it since last time running).. today morning, i upgraded
> everything to latest from tla.. and the problem persists.
>
> When i run ./bin/ucwctl start && ./bin/ucwctl attach, it loads
> start.lisp, and returns the following error:
> debugger invoked on a SIMPLE-ERROR in thread 4493:
>   Error during processing of --eval option "(|LOAD|
> \"/var/www/ucw/bin/start.lisp\")":
>
>   Argument X is not a REAL: NIL
>
> Type HELP for debugger help, or (SB-EXT:QUIT) to exit from SBCL.
>
> restarts (invokable by number or by possibly-abbreviated name):
>   0: [RETRY   ] Retry performing #<ASDF:LOAD-OP NIL {95959B9}> on
>                 #<ASDF:CL-SOURCE-FILE "swank-loader" {95802B9}>.
>   1: [ACCEPT  ] Continue, treating #<ASDF:LOAD-OP NIL {95959B9}> on
>                 #<ASDF:CL-SOURCE-FILE "swank-loader" {95802B9}> as having been
>                 successful.
>   2: [CONTINUE] Ignore and continue with next --eval option.
>   3: [ABORT   ] Skip rest of --eval options.
>   4:            Skip to toplevel READ/EVAL/PRINT loop.
>   5: [QUIT    ] Quit SBCL (calling #'QUIT, killing the process).
>
> anyone know what's wrong?

this has been happening to a LOT of people lately :(

this gist is that asdf is comparing the file-write-dates of two files,
one of which doesn't exist, and this is causing #'< (or maybe its
#'MAX) to return an error. since you get this error on swank-loader
i'd suggest killing your ~/.slime/fasl directory and seeing if the
problem pressits.

ucw is (afaik) the only external app which uses slime so maybe
something has changed in slime and i haven't upgraded ucw yet, if the
problme persists we'll look closer.

-- 
-Marco
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