[slime-devel] newbie question regarding slime and xemacs and cygwin - slime loading fails

[Sean McGrath]

when loading slime (1.2.1)  with xemacs (21.4 - patch 13)  (on a winxp 
box with the latest cygwin setup) i get the following error:

WARNING: DEFMETHOD: redefining method (LISP-IMPLEMENTATION-TYPE-NAME NIL)

i checked the archives and came across a similar question from justinhj, 
but never found the answer:

> From justinhj at gmail.com  Thu Sep 29 15:55:54 2005

From: justinhj at gmail.com (Justin Heyes-Jones)
Date: Thu Sep 29 16:24:16 2005
Subject: [slime-devel] Slime not working with latest Cygwin update?
Message-ID: <ee5546040509290655647f6c6e at mail.gmail.com>






here's my entire *inferior-lisp* buffer:

(load 
"/usr/local/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/lisp/slime-1.2.1/swank-loader.lisp" 
:verbose t)  i i i i i i i       ooooo    o        ooooooo   ooooo   ooooo
 I I I I I I I      8     8   8           8     8     o  8    8
 I  \ `+' /  I      8         8           8     8        8    8
  \  `-+-'  /       8         8           8      ooooo   8oooo
   `-__|__-'        8         8           8           8  8
       |            8     o   8           8     o     8  8
 ------+------       ooooo    8oooooo  ooo8ooo   ooooo   8

Copyright (c) Bruno Haible, Michael Stoll 1992, 1993
Copyright (c) Bruno Haible, Marcus Daniels 1994-1997
Copyright (c) Bruno Haible, Pierpaolo Bernardi, Sam Steingold 1998
Copyright (c) Bruno Haible, Sam Steingold 1999-2000
Copyright (c) Sam Steingold, Bruno Haible 2001-2005

[1]> ;; Loading file 
/usr/local/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/lisp/slime-1.2.1/swank-loader.lisp 
...
;; Compiling file 
/usr/local/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/lisp/slime-1.2.1/swank-backend.lisp 
...
;; Wrote file 
/cygdrive/c/home/sean/.slime/fasl/clisp-2.35-unix-pc386/swank-backend.fas
;;  Loading file 
/cygdrive/c/home/sean/.slime/fasl/clisp-2.35-unix-pc386/swank-backend.fas 
...
;;  Loaded file 
/cygdrive/c/home/sean/.slime/fasl/clisp-2.35-unix-pc386/swank-backend.fas
;; Compiling file 
/usr/local/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/lisp/slime-1.2.1/nregex.lisp ...
;; Wrote file 
/cygdrive/c/home/sean/.slime/fasl/clisp-2.35-unix-pc386/nregex.fas
;;  Loading file 
/cygdrive/c/home/sean/.slime/fasl/clisp-2.35-unix-pc386/nregex.fas ...
;;  Loaded file 
/cygdrive/c/home/sean/.slime/fasl/clisp-2.35-unix-pc386/nregex.fas
;; Compiling file 
/usr/local/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/lisp/slime-1.2.1/xref.lisp ...
;; Wrote file 
/cygdrive/c/home/sean/.slime/fasl/clisp-2.35-unix-pc386/xref.fas
;;  Loading file 
/cygdrive/c/home/sean/.slime/fasl/clisp-2.35-unix-pc386/xref.fas ...
;;  Loaded file 
/cygdrive/c/home/sean/.slime/fasl/clisp-2.35-unix-pc386/xref.fas
;; Compiling file 
/usr/local/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/lisp/slime-1.2.1/metering.lisp ...
;; Wrote file 
/cygdrive/c/home/sean/.slime/fasl/clisp-2.35-unix-pc386/metering.fas
;;  Loading file 
/cygdrive/c/home/sean/.slime/fasl/clisp-2.35-unix-pc386/metering.fas ...
;;  Loaded file 
/cygdrive/c/home/sean/.slime/fasl/clisp-2.35-unix-pc386/metering.fas
;; Compiling file 
/usr/local/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/lisp/slime-1.2.1/swank-clisp.lisp ...
WARNING: DEFMETHOD: redefining method (LISP-IMPLEMENTATION-TYPE-NAME 
NIL) in
        
/usr/local/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/lisp/slime-1.2.1/swank-clisp.lisp,
        was defined in
        
/usr/local/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/lisp/slime-1.2.1/swank-backend.lisp
** - Continuable Error
INTERN("*DOCUMENTATION*"): #<PACKAGE SYSTEM> is locked
If you continue (by typing 'continue'): Ignore the lock and proceed
The following restarts are also available:
SKIP           :R1      skip (COMPILE-FILES-IF-NEEDED-SERIALLY #)
STOP           :R2      stop loading file 
/usr/local/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/lisp/slime-1.2.1/swank-loader.lisp
ABORT          :R3      ABORT

*** - UNIX error 13 (EACCES): Permission denied
The following restarts are available:
SKIP           :R1      skip (COMPILE-FILES-IF-NEEDED-SERIALLY #)
STOP           :R2      stop loading file 
/usr/local/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/lisp/slime-1.2.1/swank-loader.lisp
ABORT          :R3      ABORT
Break 1 SWANK-BACKEND[2]>


any thoughts?  btw, i've gotten this to work on a different box with an 
older version of xemacs and cygwin.

thanks!