[slime-devel] slime-repl buffer never appears

Hi. I'm an occasional slime user. I got a new computer and wanted to set up sbcl and slime.

I'm running Ubuntu 11.04, and the Ubuntu versions work. So naturally I uninstalled them and installed from source.

With slime on my load-path, and

(require 'slime) (slime-setup)

in my init file, and inferior-lisp-program set to the binary, M-x slime doesn't quite work right. The *inferior-lisp* buffer starts up, swank says it's starting (I see the compilation) but the repl buffer never appears.

I do eventually get the "Connected." message, but I never see the repl buffer.

What am I missing?

Thanks very much!

Tim