HI, I am new to LISP. I am using MAC OS X version 10.4. I am using aquamacs Emacs. I have downloaded slime from http://common-lisp.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/?root=slime And i am using SBCL. When i tried to run the slime using M-x. i encounterd following error. (load "/Users/hrush/slime/swank-loader.lisp" :verbose t) (swank:start-server "/tmp/slime.394" :external-format :iso-latin-1-unix) This is SBCL 0.9.7, an implementation of ANSI Common Lisp. More information about SBCL is available at <http://www.sbcl.org/>. SBCL is free software, provided as is, with absolutely no warranty. It is mostly in the public domain; some portions are provided under BSD-style licenses. See the CREDITS and COPYING files in the distribution for more information. * ; loading #P"/Users/hrush/slime/swank-loader.lisp" ; compiling file "/Users/hrush/slime/swank-backend.lisp" (written 31 JAN 2006 01:26:55 AM): ; /Users/hrush/.slime/fasl/sbcl-0.9.7-darwin-ppc/swank-backend.fasl written ; compilation finished in 0:00:04 ;; loading #P"/Users/hrush/.slime/fasl/sbcl-0.9.7-darwin-ppc/swank-backend.fasl" WARNING: SWANK-BACKEND also exports the following symbols: (SWANK-BACKEND:MAKE-WEAK-VALUE-HASH-TABLE SWANK-BACKEND:FRAME-CATCH-TAGS SWANK-BACKEND:ADD-SIGIO-HANDLER SWANK-BACKEND:FORMAT-SLDB-CONDITION SWANK-BACKEND:PROFILE-PACKAGE SWANK-BACKEND:RESTART-FRAME SWANK-BACKEND:DEFAULT-DIRECTORY SWANK-BACKEND:FRAME-SOURCE-LOCATION-FOR-EMACS SWANK-BACKEND:MAKE-WEAK-KEY-HASH-TABLE SWANK-BACKEND:COMPUTE-BACKTRACE SWANK-BACKEND:CALL-WITH-DEBUGGER-HOOK SWANK-BACKEND:INITIALIZE-MULTIPROCESSING SWANK-BACKEND:LIST-CALLEES SWANK-BACKEND:REMOVE-FD-HANDLERS SWANK-BACKEND:RECEIVE SWANK-BACKEND:COMPILER-MACROEXPAND-1 SWANK-BACKEND:REMOVE-SIGIO-HANDLERS SWANK-BACKEND:ACCEPT-CONNECTION SWANK-BACKEND:THREAD-NAME SWANK-BACKEND:UNPROFILE SWANK-BACKEND:TOGGLE-TRACE SWANK-BACKEND:THREAD-ALIVE-P SWANK-BACKEND:CLOSE-SOCKET SWANK-BACKEND:DESCRIBE-SYMBOL-FOR-EMACS SWANK-BACKEND:SPAWN SWANK-BACKEND:MAKE-DEFAULT-INSPECTOR SWANK-BACKEND:SLDB-BREAK-AT-START SWANK-BACKEND:FIND-DEFINITIONS SWANK-BACKEND:WHO-SPECIALIZES SWANK-BACKEND:THREAD-STATUS SWANK-BACKEND:CONDITION-EXTRAS SWANK-BACKEND:FUNCTION-NAME SWANK-BACKEND:OPERATE-ON-SYSTEM SWANK-BACKEND:UNPROFILE-ALL SWANK-BACKEND:EVAL-IN-FRAME SWANK-BACKEND:FIND-THREAD SWANK-BACKEND:SLDB-BREAK-ON-RETURN SWANK-BACKEND:WHO-REFERENCES SWANK-BACKEND:LOCAL-PORT SWANK-BACKEND:CALL-WITH-DEBUGGING-ENVIRONMENT SWANK-BACKEND:PROFILED-FUNCTIONS SWANK-BACKEND:SEND SWANK-BACKEND:CALL-WITH-SYNTAX-HOOKS SWANK-BACKEND:EMACS-CONNECTED SWANK-BACKEND:WHO-BINDS SWANK-BACKEND:MAKE-LOCK SWANK-BACKEND:CREATE-SOCKET SWANK-BACKEND:BUFFER-FIRST-CHANGE SWANK-BACKEND:SET-DEFAULT-DIRECTORY SWANK-BACKEND:PROFILE-RESET SWANK-BACKEND:FRAME-VAR-VALUE SWANK-BACKEND:MACROEXPAND-ALL SWANK-BACKEND:CURRENT-THREAD SWANK-BACKEND:STARTUP-IDLE-AND-TOP-LEVEL-LOOPS SWANK-BACKEND:ACTIVATE-STEPPING SWANK-BACKEND:DISASSEMBLE-FRAME SWANK-BACKEND:SWANK-COMPILE-FILE SWANK-BACKEND:PROFILE-REPORT SWANK-BACKEND:CALL-WITH-LOCK-HELD SWANK-BACKEND:FRAME-LOCALS SWANK-BACKEND:ALL-THREADS SWANK-BACKEND:DESCRIBE-DEFINITION SWANK-BACKEND:WHO-SETS SWANK-BACKEND:CALL-WITH-COMPILATION-HOOKS SWANK-BACKEND:MAKE-FN-STREAMS SWANK-BACKEND:LISP-IMPLEMENTATION-TYPE-NAME SWANK-BACKEND:ARGLIST SWANK-BACKEND:RETURN-FROM-FRAME SWANK-BACKEND:LIST-CALLERS SWANK-BACKEND:PREFERRED-COMMUNICATION-STYLE SWANK-BACKEND:ADD-FD-HANDLER SWANK-BACKEND:KILL-THREAD SWANK-BACKEND:CALL-WITHOUT-INTERRUPTS SWANK-BACKEND:COMPILER-MACROEXPAND SWANK-BACKEND:CONDITION-REFERENCES SWANK-BACKEND:THREAD-ID SWANK-BACKEND:PRINT-FRAME SWANK-BACKEND:GETPID SWANK-BACKEND:DESCRIBE-PRIMITIVE-TYPE SWANK-BACKEND:PROFILE SWANK-BACKEND:SWANK-COMPILE-STRING SWANK-BACKEND:MAKE-STREAM-INTERACTIVE SWANK-BACKEND:DEFAULT-READTABLE-ALIST SWANK-BACKEND:WHO-CALLS SWANK-BACKEND:INTERRUPT-THREAD SWANK-BACKEND:INSTALL-DEBUGGER-GLOBALLY SWANK-BACKEND:WHO-MACROEXPANDS SWANK-BACKEND:CALLS-WHO) See also: The ANSI Standard, Macro DEFPACKAGE ; compiling file "/Users/hrush/slime/nregex.lisp" (written 19 SEP 2005 01:50:48 PM): ; /Users/hrush/.slime/fasl/sbcl-0.9.7-darwin-ppc/nregex.fasl written ; compilation finished in 0:00:01 ;; loading #P"/Users/hrush/.slime/fasl/sbcl-0.9.7-darwin-ppc/nregex.fasl" ; compiling file "/Users/hrush/slime/swank-sbcl.lisp" (written 21 JAN 2006 03:01:20 AM): compilation aborted because of fatal error: READ failure in COMPILE-FILE: READER-ERROR at 1066 (line 42, column 41) on #<SB-SYS:FD-STREAM for "file /Users/hrush/slime/swank-sbcl.lisp" {1036A8B1}>: package "SB-BSD-SOCKETS" not found ; /Users/hrush/.slime/fasl/sbcl-0.9.7-darwin-ppc/swank-sbcl.fasl written ; compilation finished in 0:00:01 ;; loading #P"/Users/hrush/.slime/fasl/sbcl-0.9.7-darwin-ppc/swank-sbcl.fasl" STYLE-WARNING: redefining PREFERRED-COMMUNICATION-STYLE NIL in DEFMETHOD ; compiling file "/Users/hrush/slime/swank-source-path-parser.lisp" (written 07 NOV 2005 01:54:32 PM): ; /Users/hrush/.slime/fasl/sbcl-0.9.7-darwin-ppc/swank-source-path-parser.fasl written ; compilation finished in 0:00:00 ;; loading #P"/Users/hrush/.slime/fasl/sbcl-0.9.7-darwin-ppc/swank-source-path-parser.fasl" ; compiling file "/Users/hrush/slime/swank-source-file-cache.lisp" (written 30 AUG 2005 01:32:58 AM): ; /Users/hrush/.slime/fasl/sbcl-0.9.7-darwin-ppc/swank-source-file-cache.fasl written ; compilation finished in 0:00:00 ;; loading #P"/Users/hrush/.slime/fasl/sbcl-0.9.7-darwin-ppc/swank-source-file-cache.fasl" STYLE-WARNING: redefining BUFFER-FIRST-CHANGE (T) in DEFMETHOD ; compiling file "/Users/hrush/slime/swank-gray.lisp" (written 23 SEP 2005 01:45:11 AM): ; /Users/hrush/.slime/fasl/sbcl-0.9.7-darwin-ppc/swank-gray.fasl written ; compilation finished in 0:00:02 ;; loading #P"/Users/hrush/.slime/fasl/sbcl-0.9.7-darwin-ppc/swank-gray.fasl" STYLE-WARNING: implicitly creating new generic function STREAM-READ-CHAR-WILL-HANG-P ; compiling file "/Users/hrush/slime/swank.lisp" (written 31 JAN 2006 01:26:55 AM): ; /Users/hrush/.slime/fasl/sbcl-0.9.7-darwin-ppc/swank.fasl written ; compilation finished in 0:00:10 ;; loading #P"/Users/hrush/.slime/fasl/sbcl-0.9.7-darwin-ppc/swank.fasl" WARNING: SWANK also exports the following symbols: (SWANK:INIT-INSPECTOR SWANK:INSPECT-IN-FRAME SWANK:INSPECT-NTH-PART SWANK:GET-REPL-RESULT SWANK:XREF SWANK:TAKE-INPUT SWANK:START-SWANK-SERVER-IN-THREAD SWANK:INSPECT-FRAME-VAR SWANK:SWANK-MACROEXPAND SWANK:LOAD-FILE-SET-PACKAGE SWANK:APROPOS-LIST-FOR-EMACS SWANK:DESCRIBE-FUNCTION SWANK:COMPLETE-FORM SWANK:SLDB-BREAK-WITH-DEFAULT-DEBUGGER SWANK:COMMIT-EDITED-VALUE SWANK:INSPECTOR-POP SWANK:TOGGLE-PROFILE-FDEFINITION SWANK:LIST-ALL-PACKAGE-NAMES SWANK:SLDB-DISASSEMBLE SWANK:FUZZY-COMPLETION-SELECTED SWANK:INSPECTOR-REINSPECT SWANK:LISTENER-EVAL SWANK:LIST-THREADS SWANK:QUIT-INSPECTOR SWANK:REPL-EVAL-HOOK-PASS SWANK:DOCUMENTATION-SYMBOL SWANK:DESCRIBE-INSPECTEE SWANK:DISASSEMBLE-SYMBOL SWANK:BACKTRACE SWANK:INVOKE-NTH-RESTART-FOR-EMACS SWANK:REPL-SUPPRESS-ADVANCE-HISTORY SWANK:RE-EVALUATE-DEFVAR SWANK:FIND-DEFINITIONS-FOR-EMACS SWANK:PPRINT-EVAL-STRING-IN-FRAME SWANK:DESCRIBE-SYMBOL SWANK:FRAME-LOCALS-FOR-EMACS SWANK:DEBUGGER-INFO-FOR-EMACS SWANK:REPL-SUPPRESS-OUTPUT SWANK:ARGLIST-FOR-INSERTION SWANK:CLEAR-REPL-RESULTS SWANK:SLDB-ABORT SWANK:SLDB-RETURN-FROM-FRAME SWANK:FRAME-CATCH-TAGS-FOR-EMACS SWANK:SWANK-TOGGLE-TRACE SWANK:UNTRACE-ALL SWANK:SIMPLE-COMPLETIONS SWANK:KILL-NTH-THREAD SWANK:EVAL-STRING-IN-FRAME SWANK:OPERATE-ON-SYSTEM-FOR-EMACS SWANK:THROW-TO-TOPLEVEL SWANK:COMPILER-NOTES-FOR-EMACS SWANK:UPDATE-INDENTATION-INFORMATION SWANK:VARIABLE-DESC-FOR-ECHO-AREA SWANK:INTERACTIVE-EVAL SWANK:PPRINT-INSPECTOR-PART SWANK:COMPILE-FILE-FOR-EMACS SWANK:SWANK-COMPILER-MACROEXPAND-1 SWANK:SET-PACKAGE SWANK:INVOKE-NTH-RESTART SWANK:INSPECTOR-NEXT SWANK:DEBUG-NTH-THREAD SWANK:SWANK-MACROEXPAND-1 SWANK:SLDB-CONTINUE SWANK:DESCRIBE-DEFINITION-FOR-EMACS SWANK:COMPILE-FILE-IF-NEEDED SWANK:INSPECTOR-CALL-NTH-ACTION SWANK:SIMPLE-BREAK SWANK:STATE-STACK SWANK:SWANK-MACROEXPAND-ALL SWANK:PPRINT-EVAL SWANK:LOAD-FILE SWANK:ARGLIST-FOR-ECHO-AREA SWANK:CONNECTION-INFO SWANK:EVAL-AND-GRAB-OUTPUT SWANK:IO-SPEED-TEST SWANK:UNDEFINE-FUNCTION SWANK:COMPILE-STRING-FOR-EMACS SWANK:MOP SWANK:INTERACTIVE-EVAL-REGION SWANK:SWANK-COMPILER-MACROEXPAND SWANK:COMPLETIONS SWANK:LIST-ALL-SYSTEMS-IN-CENTRAL-REGISTRY SWANK:VALUE-FOR-EDITING SWANK:INSPECT-CURRENT-CONDITION SWANK:INSPECTOR-NTH-PART SWANK:FUZZY-COMPLETIONS SWANK:QUIT-THREAD-BROWSER) See also: The ANSI Standard, Macro DEFPACKAGE STYLE-WARNING: redefining PREFIXED-VAR in DEFUN STYLE-WARNING: implicitly creating new generic function INSPECT-BIGGER-PIECE-ACTIONS STYLE-WARNING: implicitly creating new generic function INSPECT-WHOLE-THING-ACTION STYLE-WARNING: implicitly creating new generic function INSPECT-SHOW-MORE-ACTION STYLE-WARNING: implicitly creating new generic function MENU-CHOICES-FOR-PRESENTATION ; ; compilation unit finished ; caught 1 fatal ERROR condition WARNING: These Swank interfaces are unimplemented: (ACCEPT-CONNECTION ACTIVATE-STEPPING ADD-FD-HANDLER ADD-SIGIO-HANDLER ALL-THREADS CALL-WITH-COMPILATION-HOOKS CALL-WITH-DEBUGGING-ENVIRONMENT CALLS-WHO CLOSE-SOCKET COMPUTE-BACKTRACE CREATE-SOCKET DESCRIBE-DEFINITION DESCRIBE-SYMBOL-FOR-EMACS DISASSEMBLE-FRAME EVAL-IN-FRAME FIND-DEFINITIONS FIND-THREAD FRAME-CATCH-TAGS FRAME-LOCALS FRAME-SOURCE-LOCATION-FOR-EMACS FRAME-VAR-VALUE GETPID INSPECT-FOR-EMACS INTERRUPT-THREAD LIST-CALLEES LIST-CALLERS LOCAL-PORT MACROEXPAND-ALL MAKE-DEFAULT-INSPECTOR PRINT-FRAME PROFILE PROFILE-PACKAGE PROFILE-REPORT PROFILE-RESET PROFILED-FUNCTIONS QUIT-LISP RECEIVE REMOVE-FD-HANDLERS REMOVE-SIGIO-HANDLERS RESTART-FRAME RETURN-FROM-FRAME SEND SLDB-BREAK-AT-START SLDB-BREAK-ON-RETURN SPAWN SWANK-COMPILE-FILE SWANK-COMPILE-STRING THREAD-ID TOGGLE-TRACE UNPROFILE WHO-BINDS WHO-CALLS WHO-MACROEXPANDS WHO-REFERENCES WHO-SETS WHO-SPECIALIZES) T * debugger invoked on a SIMPLE-ERROR: There is no applicable method for the generic function #<STANDARD-GENERIC-FUNCTION SWANK-BACKEND:CREATE-SOCKET (0)> when called with arguments ("127.0.0.1" 0). Type HELP for debugger help, or (SB-EXT:QUIT) to exit from SBCL. restarts (invokable by number or by possibly-abbreviated name): 0: [ABORT] Exit debugger, returning to top level. ((SB-PCL::FAST-METHOD NO-APPLICABLE-METHOD (T)) #<unavailable argument> #<unavailable argument> #<STANDARD-GENERIC-FUNCTION SWANK-BACKEND:CREATE-SOCKET (0)> ("127.0.0.1" 0)) 0] 0 While i was searching on the net i came across page http://common-lisp.net/pipermail/slime-devel/2005-October/004179.html I tried allthe things still things are not working. can you please help me out. ,Percy.