[slime-devel] Error on #<STANDARD-GENERIC-FUNCTION SWANK-BACKEND:SPAWN (0)>

[Nicholas Ochiel]

I recently picked the latest slime code from cvs and attempted to run
it using sbcl.  I can't seem to get it to work and I'm not sure where
to start looking for the problem.  Perhaps my blindness is due to the
fact that I'm absolutely new to lisp programming.

Below is the output from M-x slime:

(load "/home/nochiel/my-code/lisp/el/slime/swank-loader.lisp" :verbose t)
(swank:start-server "/tmp/slime.6027" :external-format :iso-latin-1-unix)


This is SBCL 0.9.5.9, an implementation of ANSI Common Lisp.
More information about SBCL is available at <http://www.sbcl.org/>.

SBCL is free software, provided as is, with absolutely no warranty.
It is mostly in the public domain; some portions are provided under
BSD-style licenses.  See the CREDITS and COPYING files in the
distribution for more information.
*
; loading #P"/home/nochiel/my-code/lisp/el/slime/swank-loader.lisp"
;; loading #P"/home/nochiel/.slime/fasl/sbcl-0.9.5.9-linux-x86/swank-backend.fasl"
;; loading #P"/home/nochiel/.slime/fasl/sbcl-0.9.5.9-linux-x86/nregex.fasl"
;; loading #P"/home/nochiel/.slime/fasl/sbcl-0.9.5.9-linux-x86/swank-sbcl.fasl"
STYLE-WARNING: redefining PREFERRED-COMMUNICATION-STYLE NIL in DEFMETHOD
STYLE-WARNING: redefining CALL-WITHOUT-INTERRUPTS (T) in DEFMETHOD
STYLE-WARNING: redefining LISP-IMPLEMENTATION-TYPE-NAME NIL in DEFMETHOD
STYLE-WARNING: redefining CALL-WITH-SYNTAX-HOOKS (T) in DEFMETHOD
STYLE-WARNING: redefining DEFAULT-READTABLE-ALIST NIL in DEFMETHOD
STYLE-WARNING: redefining ARGLIST (T) in DEFMETHOD
STYLE-WARNING: redefining CALL-WITH-DEBUGGER-HOOK (T T) in DEFMETHOD
STYLE-WARNING: redefining FORMAT-SLDB-CONDITION (T) in DEFMETHOD
STYLE-WARNING: redefining CONDITION-REFERENCES (T) in DEFMETHOD
STYLE-WARNING: redefining UNPROFILE-ALL NIL in DEFMETHOD
;; loading #P"/home/nochiel/.slime/fasl/sbcl-0.9.5.9-linux-x86/swank-source-path-parser.fasl"
;; loading #P"/home/nochiel/.slime/fasl/sbcl-0.9.5.9-linux-x86/swank-source-file-cache.fasl"
STYLE-WARNING: redefining BUFFER-FIRST-CHANGE (T) in DEFMETHOD
;; loading #P"/home/nochiel/.slime/fasl/sbcl-0.9.5.9-linux-x86/swank-gray.fasl"
STYLE-WARNING: implicitly creating new generic function STREAM-READ-CHAR-NO-HANG
STYLE-WARNING:
   implicitly creating new generic function STREAM-READ-CHAR-WILL-HANG-P
;; loading #P"/home/nochiel/.slime/fasl/sbcl-0.9.5.9-linux-x86/swank.fasl"
WARNING: These Swank interfaces are unimplemented:
 (ACTIVATE-STEPPING ALL-THREADS
                    CALLS-WHO
                    DISASSEMBLE-FRAME
                    FIND-THREAD
                    INSPECT-FOR-EMACS
                    INTERRUPT-THREAD
                    QUIT-LISP
                    RECEIVE
                    RESTART-FRAME
                    SEND
                    SLDB-BREAK-AT-START
                    SLDB-BREAK-ON-RETURN
                    SPAWN
                    THREAD-ID
                    TOGGLE-TRACE
                    WHO-BINDS
                    WHO-CALLS
                    WHO-MACROEXPANDS
                    WHO-REFERENCES
                    WHO-SETS
                    WHO-SPECIALIZES)
T
* ;; Swank started at port: 1026.

debugger invoked on a SIMPLE-ERROR in thread #<THREAD "initial thread"
{9003339}>:
  There is no applicable method for the generic function
    #<STANDARD-GENERIC-FUNCTION SWANK-BACKEND:SPAWN (0)>
  when called with arguments
    (# :NAME "Swank").

Type HELP for debugger help, or (SB-EXT:QUIT) to exit from SBCL.

restarts (invokable by number or by possibly-abbreviated name):
  0: [ABORT] Exit debugger, returning to top level.

((SB-PCL::FAST-METHOD NO-APPLICABLE-METHOD (T))
 #<unavailable argument>
 #<unavailable argument>
 #<STANDARD-GENERIC-FUNCTION SWANK-BACKEND:SPAWN (0)>
 (#<CLOSURE # {9467AFD}> :NAME "Swank"))
0]


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