* Sebastian Tennant [2009-08-29 14:23+0200] writes:
;; Connection to Emacs lost. [ ;; condition: The value 9 is not of type LIST. ;; type: TYPE-ERROR ;; encoding: NIL style: :SPAWN dedicated: NIL]
This looks suspicious: the encoding is NIL, i.e. the default encoding. Most likely something went wrong during initialization. The first line in the *inferior-lisp* buffer contains the initial form that Emacs sends to start up a Swank server. That line should mention the proper encoding.
Helmut