I have run into a problem that only seems to occur using QuickLisp in the interaction between Emacs+SLIME and a Lispworks console image (multiprocessing enabled).

The console image is created using Lispworks Pro 6 on Windows XP with multiprocessing enabled.

Quicklisp hangs when attempting to download package dependencies when a Lispworks console console image (multiprocessing enabled) is started from Emacs+SLIME using M-x slime (or M-- M-x slime lw).

- If the console image is created without multiprocessing, everything works. - If the console image is started from the command line and then connected to Emacs+SLIME via (swank:create-server) and M-x slime-connect, everything works. - If the Lispworks IDE is started and then connected to Emacs+SLIME via (swank:create- server) and M-x slime-connect, everything works.

The problem only seems to be with the download of dependencies. If the dependencies are already available then Quicklisp will the package without issues.

On a perhaps related note; I cannot interrupt the Lispworks multiprocessing console image using C-c C-c.

-Luke