Package: cl-swank Version: 1:20061201-2 Severity: important Trying to start SBCL using M-x slime-start from GNU Emacs fails with an error on the Common Lisp side. "important" because inferior-lisp is a big part of SLIME by my understanding. Here's the transcript from my *inferior-lisp* buffer: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- (load "/usr/share/common-lisp/source/slime/swank-loader.lisp" :verbose t) (swank:start-server "/tmp/slime.1772" :external-format :iso-latin-1-unix) This is SBCL 1.0, an implementation of ANSI Common Lisp. More information about SBCL is available at <http://www.sbcl.org/>. SBCL is free software, provided as is, with absolutely no warranty. It is mostly in the public domain; some portions are provided under BSD-style licenses. See the CREDITS and COPYING files in the distribution for more information. * ; loading #P"/usr/share/common-lisp/source/slime/swank-loader.lisp" ;; loading #P"/var/cache/common-lisp-controller/1000/sbcl/swank/fasl/sbcl-1.0-linux-x86-64/swank-backend.fasl" ;; loading #P"/var/cache/common-lisp-controller/1000/sbcl/swank/fasl/sbcl-1.0-linux-x86-64/nregex.fasl" ;; loading #P"/var/cache/common-lisp-controller/1000/sbcl/swank/fasl/sbcl-1.0-linux-x86-64/swank-sbcl.fasl" ;; loading #P"/var/cache/common-lisp-controller/1000/sbcl/swank/fasl/sbcl-1.0-linux-x86-64/swank-source-path-parser.fasl" ;; loading #P"/var/cache/common-lisp-controller/1000/sbcl/swank/fasl/sbcl-1.0-linux-x86-64/swank-source-file-cache.fasl" ;; loading #P"/var/cache/common-lisp-controller/1000/sbcl/swank/fasl/sbcl-1.0-linux-x86-64/swank-gray.fasl" STYLE-WARNING: implicitly creating new generic function STREAM-READ-CHAR-WILL-HANG-P ;; loading #P"/var/cache/common-lisp-controller/1000/sbcl/swank/fasl/sbcl-1.0-linux-x86-64/swank.fasl" STYLE-WARNING: implicitly creating new generic function INSPECT-BIGGER-PIECE-ACTIONS STYLE-WARNING: implicitly creating new generic function INSPECT-WHOLE-THING-ACTION STYLE-WARNING: implicitly creating new generic function INSPECT-SHOW-MORE-ACTION STYLE-WARNING: implicitly creating new generic function MENU-CHOICES-FOR-PRESENTATION WARNING: These Swank interfaces are unimplemented: (CALLS-WHO DISASSEMBLE-FRAME SLDB-BREAK-AT-START SLDB-BREAK-ON-RETURN WHO-BINDS WHO-CALLS WHO-MACROEXPANDS WHO-REFERENCES WHO-SETS WHO-SPECIALIZES) T * debugger invoked on a SB-INT:SIMPLE-PROGRAM-ERROR in thread #<THREAD "initial thread" {10025EFA81}>: unknown &KEY argument: :EXTERNAL-FORMAT Type HELP for debugger help, or (SB-EXT:QUIT) to exit from SBCL. restarts (invokable by number or by possibly-abbreviated name): 0: [ABORT] Exit debugger, returning to top level. (SWANK:START-SERVER "/tmp/slime.1772" :EXTERNAL-FORMAT :ISO-LATIN-1-UNIX) 0] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Here's the installed versions of a few other packages, just in case: ii sbcl 1.0.0.0-1 A Common Lisp compiler and development system ii slime 20061201-2 Superior LISP Interaction Mode for Emacs ii emacs21 21.4a+1-5 The GNU Emacs editor ii emacs21-bin-common 21.4a+1-5 The GNU Emacs editor's shared, architecture ii emacs21-common 21.4a+1-5 The GNU Emacs editor's shared, architecture ii emacs21-el 21.4a+1-5 GNU Emacs LISP (.el) files ii emacsen-common 1.4.17 Common facilities for all emacsen Hope this helps. ---> Drake Wilson -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.20.1 Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages cl-swank depends on: ii common-lisp-controller 6.9 This is a Common Lisp source and c cl-swank recommends no packages. -- no debconf information