[slime-devel] Error When Starting Slime

[Christopher Stacy]

On Nov 9, 2012, at 9:05 PM, Chris Van Dusen <cavandusen at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Nov 8, 2012, at 6:41 AM, Helmut Eller wrote:
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>> On Thu, Nov 08 2012, Chris Van Dusen wrote:
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>>> Any ideas as to what the problem is?  I can provide any other
>>> information needed.
>> 
>> Please download the latest version, enable debugging in Emacs with 
>> M-x toggle-debug-on-error and start Slime.  I haven't fixed anything but
>> the latest version should show a more complete backtrace.
>> 
>> Helmut
>> 
> 
> The backtrace is below, but as soon as I saw it, I realized what the problem is.
> 
> I had a library loaded (for the curious, geben) that advises open-network-stream.  The package seems to have been abandoned, and also causes problems with erc.
> 
> Removing it removed the problem starting slime.

I get a startup failure that I think is like yours, but it occurs randomly.
About 1/12 times when I start slime for Lispworks.
I don't have "geben" loaded or anything.
I think there is a race condition somewhere.