[slime-devel] Stupid question

[Helmut Eller]

Marco Antoniotti <marcoxa at cs.nyu.edu> writes:

> I am using an old CMUCL 18e on a Linux box.  Once I start SLIME I keep
> getting "Polling ...." messages in the minibuffer.
>
> Is there something obvious I am missing?

This usually means that there was a problem when compiling swank-*.lisp
files.  Try to remove everything in ~/.slime/fasl and start SLIME
again.  

If you still have problems, show us the content of the *inferior-lisp*
buffer (which will include the compiler messages).

Helmut.