Package: slime Version: 1:20080223-1 Severity: grave I have found that the latest version of slime will not start up. I posted to the slime mailing list and got this response from Helmut Eller: This seems to be Debian specific. The missing function UNIQUE-DIRECTORY-NAME is now called UNIQUE-DIR-NAME. Peter Van Eynde should probably set *FASL-DIRECTORY* instead of hard-coding the paths. This is what I get when trying to start slime: (progn (load "/usr/share/common-lisp/source/slime/swank-loader.lisp" :verbose t) (funcall (read-from-string "swank-loader:init")) (funcall (read-from-string "swank:start-server") "/tmp/slime.10300" :coding-system "iso-latin-1-unix")) This is SBCL 1.0.14.debian, 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. CL-USER(1): ; loading #P"/usr/share/common-lisp/source/slime/swank-loader.lisp" ; in: LAMBDA NIL ; (SB-INT:NAMED-LAMBDA SWANK-LOADER::BINARY-PATHNAME ; (SWANK-LOADER::SRC-PATHNAME SWANK-LOADER::BINARY-DIR) ; (DECLARE (IGNORE SWANK-LOADER::BINARY-DIRECTORY)) ; (BLOCK SWANK-LOADER::BINARY-PATHNAME ; (LET ((SWANK-LOADER::CFP #)) ; (MERGE-PATHNAMES ; (MAKE-PATHNAME :DIRECTORY `# :NAME # :TYPE #) ; (COMMON-LISP-CONTROLLER:CALCULATE-FASL-ROOT))))) ; ==> ; #'(SB-INT:NAMED-LAMBDA SWANK-LOADER::BINARY-PATHNAME ; (SWANK-LOADER::SRC-PATHNAME SWANK-LOADER::BINARY-DIR) ; (DECLARE (IGNORE SWANK-LOADER::BINARY-DIRECTORY)) ; (BLOCK SWANK-LOADER::BINARY-PATHNAME ; (LET ((SWANK-LOADER::CFP #)) ; (MERGE-PATHNAMES ; (MAKE-PATHNAME :DIRECTORY `# :NAME # :TYPE #) ; (COMMON-LISP-CONTROLLER:CALCULATE-FASL-ROOT))))) ; ; caught STYLE-WARNING: ; declaring unknown variable BINARY-DIRECTORY to be ignored ; ; caught STYLE-WARNING: ; The variable BINARY-DIR is defined but never used. ; in: LAMBDA NIL ; (SWANK-LOADER::UNIQUE-DIRECTORY-NAME) ; ; caught STYLE-WARNING: ; undefined function: UNIQUE-DIRECTORY-NAME ; ; caught STYLE-WARNING: ; This function is undefined: ; UNIQUE-DIRECTORY-NAME ; ; compilation unit finished ; caught 4 STYLE-WARNING conditions debugger invoked on a UNDEFINED-FUNCTION in thread #<THREAD "initial thread" {10046D2B01}>: The function SWANK-LOADER::UNIQUE-DIRECTORY-NAME is undefined. 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. ("bogus stack frame") 0] -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-3-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages slime depends on: ii cl-swank 1:20080223-1 Superior LISP Interaction Mode for ii emacsen-common 1.4.17 Common facilities for all emacsen Versions of packages slime recommends: ii emacs21 [info-browser] 21.4a+1-5.3 The GNU Emacs editor ii emacs22-gtk [info-brows 22.1+1-2.3 The GNU Emacs editor (with GTK use ii info [info-browser] 4.11.dfsg.1-4 Standalone GNU Info documentation ii konqueror [info-browser 4:3.5.8.dfsg.1-2 KDE's advanced file manager, web b ii xemacs21-nomule [info-b 21.4.21-1 highly customizable text editor -- -- no debconf information