On Sep 27, 2006, at 5:32 AM, Peder O. Klingenberg wrote:
Bill Atkins atkinw@rpi.edu writes:
Then I ran SLIME and watched some output scroll through *inferior-lisp*, only to stop at a CL-USER> prompt. The echo area informs me that SLIME is still polling the connection ("Polling "/tmp/slime.1257".. (Abort with `M-x slime- abort-connection'.)").
I'm seeing the same symptoms on a laptop running ubuntu, with LW 4.6 and CVS slime (last checkout was a couple of weeks ago, I think). It's been that way for quite some time for me, many months. I haven't investigated at all (actual work keeps getting in the way), but I've avoided upgrading the slime on my normal workstation for a long time, partly because of this [1].
I have a workaround, though. I don't have my laptop with me today, so this is going by memory, but when slime hangs and displays that message about aborting the connection, I do another 'M-x slime'. When it asks me if I want to open another *inferior-lisp* I decline. That apparently unsticks something in slime, and I get the slime REPL running. The message buffer often says something like "buffer has no process" or something, but everything works just fine.
You're right; running slime again does the trick. Thanks. It would still be nice to find out what causes this.
Bill