[slime-devel] exited abnormally with code 256

[Brian Mastenbrook]

On Nov 29, 2005, at 5:35 PM, John J Foerch wrote:

> Hi,
>
>   Slime used to work for me, a couple months ago.  Then I didn't  
> touch it
> for a couple months and now when I «M-x slime» things load and  
> compile for
> a bit, then I get the message:
>
> Lisp connection closed unexpectedly: exited abnormally with code 256
>
>   I tried updating my copy of Slime to the current CVS version.  I  
> tried
> deleting the .fasl files in ~/.slime/fasl.  I am a total newb so I  
> don't
> know what else I can try.  Any suggestions?  My emacs is Gnu Emacs  
> 21.3.
> My lisp is SBCL 0.9.4.


Hi John,

I don't know why it didn't work before your CVS update, but I  
wouldn't expect 0.9.4 to work with CVS SLIME. You should try  
upgrading your SBCL if you want to use this version of SLIME.

If that doesn't help, rm -rf ~/.slime and watch the *inferior-lisp*  
buffer for any compilation warnings or errors. Also, are you on  
Linux? If so, what version of the kernel? There have been several  
kernel bugs in various 2.6 versions from 2.6.9 to 2.6.11 which  
interact badly with SBCL.
--
Brian Mastenbrook
brian at mastenbrook.net
http://brian.mastenbrook.net/