[Bese-devel] Re: Getting ucw_box to work

[Lou Vanek]

Pupeno wrote:

> On Sun, 2006-06-18 at 12:36 +0000, Lou Vanek wrote:
> 
>>Pupeno wrote:
>>
>> > Hello,
>> > I am trying to get ucw to work, so I tried loading lisp.start (from
>> > slime) to find this error:
>> >
>> > The name "IT.BESE.UCW-USER" does not designate any package.
>> >    [Condition of type SB-KERNEL:SIMPLE-PACKAGE-ERROR]
>> >
>> > Restarts:
>> >   0: [ABORT] Abort SLIME compilation.
>> >   1: [ABORT-REQUEST] Abort handling SLIME request.
>> >   2: [TERMINATE-THREAD] Terminate this thread (#<THREAD
>> > "worker" {B06D469}>)
>> >
>> > So, I went form by form in that file until
>> >
>> > (asdf:oos 'asdf:load-op :ucw)
>> >
>> > which eventually hungs. I am running it again and let it run for a long
>> > time.
>> >
>> > Any obvious mistake that I am making ?
>> >
>> > Thank you.
>> >
>>
>>Pupeno,
>>
>>You don't mention which version of Lisp or OS you are using, but I'm guessing
>>Clisp on Windows. (Lisp in a box?) If you are on Windows you will have a harder
>>time getting things to work.
> 
> 
> I am running SBCL on Ubuntu (Linux). Actually, I am using packages that
> I made myself taking the Debian Sarge sources (they are more up to
> date).
> 
> I have asdf set up more or less correctly I believe.
> I dig into the problem until I've found there was a problem loading
> swank, I have slime installed on my system (by Debian packages) and
> neither that nor the one in the box work. I believe it is a kind of
> threading problem. Furthermore, since I am running this from Slime,
> isn't swank already loaded ?
...

Yes.

Try letting start.lisp create the swank server, and connect to it later (if
everything starts up correctly) with slime. Make sure swank is closed down
first (M-x slime-disconnect).