As I was playing with slime to see how different backends work, I hit that bug, but it only occured to me with CLisp. SBCL and CMUCL just worked. Creating an empty /usr/share/common-lisp/source/slime/ChangeLog file was my simple workaround for this bug. Quickly, Nowhere man -- nowhere.man@levallois.eu.org OpenPGP 0xD9D50D8A