[slime-devel] Re: sporadic EOF on start up

[Helmut Eller]

* Walter C. Pelissero [2008-03-25 19:25+0100] writes:

> I've been experiencing this since ever but I've always postponed any
> investigation to when I had more time.  Having noticed that I never
> got around to do anything about it, I thought I might as well involve
> the SLIME community.
>
> About one out of five times I start slime, I get:
>
> ;; Swank started at port: 49576.
> 49576
> * ;; swank:close-connection: End-of-File on #<Stream for descriptor 9>
>
> Through the inferior lisp buffer I can verify that the Lisp is not
> dead; I can interact without problems.  It seems like it's just SLIME
> that fails to notice that.
>
> If I do another M-x slime, Emacs asks me if I want to create another
> inferior lisp.  Answering "no" the Lisp session is rescued and
> everything proceeds as normal.
>
> Has anyone else seen something like that?
>
> Just for the record, I'm using CMUCL 19d on FreeBSD.

I haven't seem this problem.  It sounds like Emacs closes the
connection.  Do you see some error messages on the Emacs side, in the
*Messages* buffer?

Helmut.