[cl-debian] Bug#345783: slime: the variable `slime-backend' is wrong by default

[Peter Van Eynde]

On Tuesday 03 January 2006 15:15, Daniel Brockman wrote:
> Package: slime
> Version: 1:20051207-1
> Severity: normal
> 
> If you install the packages `slime' and `cl-swank', and
> then try to run `M-x slime', you will hit this error:
> 
>    (load "/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/slime/swank-loader.lisp" :verbose t)
>    (swank:start-server "/tmp/slime.5196" :external-format :iso-latin-1-unix)

This is most puzzling. I get:

(load "/usr/share/common-lisp/source/slime/swank-loader.lisp" :verbose t)
(swank:start-server "/tmp/slime.22115" :external-format :iso-latin-1-unix)

Which is correct. Don't you have an official slime installation perhaps? 

> So can't we just make this the default for `slime-backend'?

This is set in /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50slime.el

I suspect that the installation failed but this was not reported to dpkg, I 
have had some reports of this, but no root cause has been found. Do you have 
logs of the installation? 

Probably the problem will be fixed if you reinstall slime.

Groetjes, Peter

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