Cliff Wulfman cwulfman@Princeton.EDU<mailto:cwulfman@Princeton.EDU> Begin forwarded message: Date: December 6, 2011 9:32:16 AM EST To: Helmut Eller <heller@common-lisp.net<mailto:heller@common-lisp.net>> Subject: Re: [slime-devel] (open-network-stream) error in slime-connect on OS X That's it: some months ago I played around with the geben package (http://code.google.com/p/geben-on-emacs/), which installs dbgp.el. When I remove geben from my init.el all is well. Thanks for helping to track this down. Cliff Wulfman cwulfman@Princeton.EDU<mailto:cwulfman@Princeton.EDU> On Dec 6, 2011, at 9:20 AM, Helmut Eller wrote: * Clifford E. Wulfman [2011-12-06 11:32+0100] writes: M-x describe-function open-network-stream finds the definition in /usr/local/ share/emacs/24.0.92/lisp/net/network-stream.el.gz: A Google search for dbgp-buffer-process brings up an emacs file called dbgp.el and that seems add an defadvice for open-network-stream. Have you installed said dbgp.el? That would explain the strange error. Helmut