Luke Gorrie writes:
Stefan Reichör xsteve@riic.at writes:
Hi!
I tried to start slime on a freebsd system.
So I typed M-x slime and got the following:
[...]
Type-error in KERNEL::OBJECT-NOT-TYPE-ERROR-HANDLER: NIL is not of type HOST-ENTRY
Restarts: 0: [ABORT] Return to Top-Level.
Debug (type H for help)
(SWANK-BACKEND::RESOLVE-HOSTNAME "127.0.0.1") Source: ; File: /home/reichr/site-lisp/slime/swank-cmucl.lisp (HOST-ENTRY-ADDR-LIST HOSTENT) 0]
Any ideas?
I'm not sure of the cause, and I'm in a pre-midsummer-rush just now, but as a workaround I suggest taking out the :host argument in `create-socket' of swank-backend.lisp.
The effect will be to bind the server's listen-socket globally instead of the loopback interface.
Maybe check that 127.0.0.1 is resolvable (probably requires that DNS is setup correctly). Alternatively, use "localhost" instead of "127.0.0.1" as the value for *loopback-interface*.
Just guessing.