[slime-devel] Re: Halp, slime isn't working any more (for me)

[T Taneli Vahakangas]

On Fri, Aug 31, 2007 at 01:26:14AM +0200, Tobias C. Rittweiler wrote:
> T Taneli Vahakangas <vahakang at cs.helsinki.fi> writes:
> 
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I have somehow completely broked my slime or emacs. After doing
> > M-x slime the *inferior-lisp* buffer is left on display and in
> > minibuffer it says "Connecting to Swank on port NNNN..", but it
> > doesn't proceed from there.
> 
> Some chap on #lisp just reported the following:
> 
> (01:07:03) hnaz: hm. emacs-23.0.50 + slime-cvs + sbcl-1.0.8.19 +
>                  linux-2.6.23-rc4 won't work together
> (01:07:28) hnaz: hangs at `Connecting to swank on port 23...'
> (01:07:50) hnaz: the sbcl is up and running, it evaluates expressions,
>                  but the repl won't come up
> (01:08:18) hnaz: running the same software on linux-2.6.22.1 works fine.
> 
> This sounds a lot like your issue. If really so, could you try a
> different kernel version, please?

This is the bug! I can confirm that 2.6.21-ish kernel works ok,
while 2.6.23-rc3 fails. Many thanks Tobias!

Now I'm curious why is that ... let's see if hnaz is still on
#lisp

	Taneli