When starting slime with "M-x slime" a window is created and displays the *inferior-lisp* process with the message:

(progn (load "/Users/Dana/slime/swank-loader.lisp" :verbose t) (funcall (read-from-string "swank-loader:init")) (funcall (read-from-string "swank:start-server") "/var/folders/gq/3hr2_3j961d6rsz4dm8x83ch0000gq/T/slime.2310"))

and polls ... forever.

Enmap 127.0.0.1

shows

4005/tcp  open  pxc-pin

so swank appears to be working and has opened the proper port but

ls /var/folders/gq/<gobbldee-goop>/T

shows no file "slime.2310". I am assuming that slime made a request to the system for a virtual file interface to the port 127.0.0.1:4005 and that request failed either on the slime end or the system end. Setting

produces no information as apparently emacs hasn't detected an error.

The slime portion of my configuration is

;; ***************************  Activate SLIME for Clozure  *******************************
(add-to-list 'load-path "/Users/Dana/slime/")  ; your SLIME directory
(setq inferior-lisp-program "/Applications/ClozureCL.app/Contents/MacOS/dx86cl64 -K utf-8")
(require 'slime)
(slime-setup)

Any suggestions on how to debug this would be greatly appreciated.

Software:
OS X 10.7.5
Clozure 1.8.1 (15418)
Emacs 24.3 (9.0)
Slime cvs version downloaded 2013-09-14

Thanks

Dana S. Wheeler
dswheeler777.at.gmail.com