[slime-devel] Re: Startup problem with cmucl

[Luke Gorrie]

Stefan Reichör <xsteve at riic.at> writes:

> Hi!
>
> I tried to start slime on a freebsd system.
>
> So I typed M-x slime
> and got the following:

[...]

> * 
> Type-error in KERNEL::OBJECT-NOT-TYPE-ERROR-HANDLER:
>    NIL is not of type HOST-ENTRY
>
> Restarts:
>   0: [ABORT] Return to Top-Level.
>
> Debug  (type H for help)
>
> (SWANK-BACKEND::RESOLVE-HOSTNAME "127.0.0.1")
> Source: 
> ; File: /home/reichr/site-lisp/slime/swank-cmucl.lisp
> (HOST-ENTRY-ADDR-LIST HOSTENT)
> 0] 
>
> Any ideas?

I'm not sure of the cause, and I'm in a pre-midsummer-rush just now,
but as a workaround I suggest taking out the :host argument in
`create-socket' of swank-backend.lisp.

The effect will be to bind the server's listen-socket globally instead
of the loopback interface.

-Luke