I had an odd hiccup here. Starting up slime for the fist time after updating both (and deleting ~/.slime):

*inferior-lisp*

(load "/Users/david/usr/src/slime/swank-loader.lisp" :verbose t)

(swank:start-server "/tmp/slime.11493" :external-format :iso-latin-1-unix) Welcome to OpenMCL Version (Beta: DarwinPPC32) 0.14.3-050705! ? ;Loading #P"/Users/david/usr/src/slime/swank-loader.lisp"... ;Compiling "/Users/david/usr/src/slime/swank-backend.lisp"... ;Loading #P"/Users/david/.slime/fasl/openmcl-0.14-darwin-powerpc/swank- backend.dfsl"... ;Compiling "/Users/david/usr/src/slime/nregex.lisp"... ;Loading #P"/Users/david/.slime/fasl/openmcl-0.14-darwin-powerpc/nregex.dfsl"... ;Compiling "/Users/david/usr/src/slime/metering.lisp"... ;Loading #P"/Users/david/.slime/fasl/openmcl-0.14-darwin-powerpc/ metering.dfsl"... ;Compiling "/Users/david/usr/src/slime/swank-openmcl.lisp"... ;Compiler warnings for "/Users/david/usr/src/slime/swank-openmcl.lisp" : ; Unused lexical variable STREAM, in (MAKE-STREAM-INTERACTIVE (T)). ;Loading #P"/Users/david/.slime/fasl/openmcl-0.14-darwin-powerpc/swank- openmcl.dfsl"... ;Compiling "/Users/david/usr/src/slime/swank-gray.lisp"... ;Loading #P"/Users/david/.slime/fasl/openmcl-0.14-darwin-powerpc/swank- gray.dfsl"... ;Compiling "/Users/david/usr/src/slime/swank.lisp"... ;Loading #P"/Users/david/.slime/fasl/openmcl-0.14-darwin-powerpc/swank.dfsl"... ; Warning: These Swank interfaces are unimplemented: ; (ACTIVATE-STEPPING ADD-FD-HANDLER ADD-SIGIO-HANDLER CALLS-WHO MACROEXPAND-ALL REMOVE-FD-HANDLERS REMOVE-SIGIO-HANDLERS SLDB-BREAK-AT-START SLDB-BREAK-ON-RETURN TOGGLE-TRACE) ; While executing: SWANK-BACKEND::WARN-UNIMPLEMENTED-INTERFACES ;Compiler warnings for "/Users/david/usr/src/slime/swank.lisp" : ; Undefined function SWANK-MOP:FINALIZE-INHERITANCE, in (SWANK::EXTRA-KEYWORDS ((EQL 'MAKE-INSTANCE))). ; Undefined function SWANK-MOP:COMPUTE-APPLICABLE-METHODS-USING-CLASSES, in SWANK::APPLICABLE-METHODS-KEYWORDS. ;Compiler warnings for "/Users/david/usr/src/slime/swank-openmcl.lisp" : ; Undefined function #:EQL-SPECIALIZER-OBJECT, in SWANK-BACKEND::SPECIALIZER-NAME. ; Undefined function #:CLASS-NAME, in SWANK-BACKEND::SPECIALIZER-NAME. #P"/Users/david/usr/src/slime/swank-loader.lisp" ? ;; Swank started at port: 61020. 61020 ?

What happened was slime did not automatically connect. I was able to connect by doing M-x slime-connect to port 61020. I'm sure it's not a major problem to fix, I just don't have a clue about slime's internals or elisp.