[slime-devel] Debugging SBCL startup issue.

I'm running SBCL 1.0.14 built on gentoo, using the recent CVS of Slime.

When I start slime, it begins in the *inferior-lisp* buffer, loads Swank, and then sits at a CL-USER[2]: prompt. The minibuffer says: "Connecting to Swank on port nnnn.." This inferior lisp buffer accepts commands.

I've discovered that by generating an error in the inferior lisp, SBCL enters its debugger, which then prints "Adding fd handler: 6" and then slime starts up fine.

Any ideas on how to debug this, or what the problem might be? It seems to work once I generate the error.

I'm going to try rebuilding SBCL with threading support enabled to see if this helps.

Thanks, David Brown