[slime-devel] Re: Startup problem with cmucl

[Raymond Wiker]

Luke Gorrie writes:
 > 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.

        Maybe check that 127.0.0.1 is resolvable (probably requires
that DNS is setup correctly). Alternatively, use "localhost" instead
of "127.0.0.1" as the value for *loopback-interface*.

        Just guessing.