[slime-devel] stuck polling on windows

[mike]

On 02/10/2012 17:14, Archenoth wrote:
> On Fri, 28 Sep 2012 09:56:29 -0600, mike <mikereape at onetel.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi
>>
>> I'm trying to get slime and slime-mode working with acl82express 
>> (Allegro CL 8.2).
>>
>> Here is the relevant part of my .emacs:
>>
>> ; This is sample code for starting and specifying defaults to the
>> ; Emacs-Lisp interface.
>>    (push "c:/acl82express/eli" load-path)
>>    (load "fi-site-init.el")
>>    (setq fi:common-lisp-image-name "c:/acl82express/alisp")
>>    (setq fi:common-lisp-image-file "c:/acl82express/alisp.dxl")
>>    (setq fi:common-lisp-directory "c:/acl82express/")
>>
>>      (add-to-list 'load-path 
>> "c:/Users/Mike/Downloads/slime-current/slime-current/slime-2012-09-27/") 
>> ; your SLIME directory
>>      (setq inferior-lisp-program 
>> "c:/acl82express/allegro-express.exe") ; your Lisp system
>>      (require 'slime)
>>      (slime-setup)
>>
>> When I do 'M-x slime' this is at the top of *inferior-lisp*:
>>
>> (progn (load 
>> "c:/Users/Mike/Downloads/slime-current/slime-current/slime-2012-09-27/swank-loader.lisp" 
>> :verbose t) (funcall (read-from-string "swank-loader:init")) (funcall 
>> (read-from-string "swank:start-server") 
>> "c:/Users/Mike/AppData/Local/Temp/slime.8336"))
>>
>> and this from *Messages*:
>>
>> Loading paren...done
>> Loading c:/acl82express/eli/fi-site-init.el (source)...
>> Loading c:/acl82express/eli/fi-vers.elc...done
>> Loading c:/acl82express/eli/fi-utils.elc...done
>> Loading c:/acl82express/eli/fi-keys.elc...done
>> Loading c:/acl82express/eli/fi-modes.elc...done
>> Loading c:/acl82express/eli/fi-indent.elc...done
>> Loading c:/acl82express/eli/fi-gnu.elc...done
>> Loading c:/acl82express/eli/fi-subproc.elc...done
>> Loading c:/acl82express/eli/fi-sublisp.elc...done
>> Loading c:/acl82express/eli/fi-basic-lep.elc...done
>> Loading c:/acl82express/eli/fi-lep.elc...done
>> Loading c:/acl82express/eli/fi-dmode.elc...done
>> Loading c:/acl82express/eli/fi-composer.elc...done
>> Loading c:/acl82express/eli/fi-lze.elc...done
>> Loading c:/acl82express/eli/fi-changes.elc...done
>> Loading c:/acl82express/eli/fi-db.elc...done
>> Loading c:/acl82express/eli/fi-stream.elc...done
>> Loading c:/acl82express/eli/fi-ring.elc...done
>> Loading c:/acl82express/eli/fi-filec.elc...done
>> Loading c:/acl82express/eli/fi-shell.elc...done
>> Loading c:/acl82express/eli/fi-rlogin.elc...done
>> Loading c:/acl82express/eli/fi-telnet.elc...done
>> Loading c:/acl82express/eli/fi-su.elc...done
>> Loading c:/acl82express/eli/fi-manual.elc...
>> Loading c:/acl82express/eli/fi-manual-data.elc...done
>> Loading c:/acl82express/eli/fi-manual.elc...done
>> Loading c:/acl82express/eli/fi-emacs21.elc...done
>> Loading c:/acl82express/eli/fi-site-init.el (source)...done
>> package specification is `USER'
>> Loading dired...done
>> Loading vc-cvs...done
>> Loading prolog...done
>> Wrote c:/Users/Mike/.emacs.desktop.lock
>> Desktop: 14 buffers restored.
>> For information about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type C-h C-a.
>> call-interactively: Beginning of buffer
>> Slime mode enabled
>> Quit
>> Polling "c:/Users/Mike/AppData/Local/Temp/slime.8336".. (Abort with 
>> `M-x slime-abort-connection'.) [95 times]
>> Mark set
>> Polling "c:/Users/Mike/AppData/Local/Temp/slime.8336".. (Abort with 
>> `M-x slime-abort-connection'.) [132 times]
>>
>> and it just keeps polling and when I check in 
>> c:/Users/Mike/AppData/Local/Temp/, slime.8336 isn't there.
>>
>> Can someone tell me what I'm doing wrong?  I can repost if 
>> more/different output is needed.  FWIW, I'm running under an account 
>> with admin privs.
>>
>> Thanks in advance.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Mike
>>
>
> I recall this happened to me a while back when I was trying out 
> Windows 8 with SLIME... As it turns out, it happened to be how my temp 
> folder was setup... Does it work when you set a "TEMP" environment 
> variable so it points to a path with no spaces in it? So:
>
> 1) Create a folder in C: called "Temp"...
> 2) Start -> [Right Click] "Computer" -> Properties -> Advanced system 
> settings -> Environment Variables...
> 3) At the top, set "TEMP" to "C:\Temp" (The folder you created in Step 
> 1).
> 4) [Click] "Ok".
> 5) Start up Emacs and try SLIME again...
> 6) ???
> 7) PROFIT!
>
> Does this help any..?
>
Thanks for the detailed help.  It will be a few days before I can try 
that though.  I'll let you know how I got on.

Cheers,
Mike