Re: [slime-devel] Trouble getting slime to work on Mac OS X

David Meredith dave@titanmusic.com writes:

I'm using GNU Emacs 21.2.1 on Mac OS X 10.3.7. I'm trying to get SLIME 1.0 to work with either CMUCL or SBCL. I load slime with M-x slime and I get the following message in the *inferior-lisp* buffer:

i would strongly suggest getting a more recent slime.

• ;; Swank started at port: 49577.

49577

Error in function CREATE-INET-LISTENER: Error binding socket to port 0: Can't assign requested address [Condition of type SIMPLE-ERROR]

this is (often) a sympton of not being able to resolve localhost. try changing the occurences of "localhost" to "127.0.0.1" in slime.el (or upgrade to cvs slime).