Red Daly <reddaly@gmail.com> writes:

I receive the following error when working a piece of software called Elephant. The following two lines cause my Lisp connection to exit abnormally:

(asdf:operate 'asdf:load-op :elephant) (let ((store-spec '(:BDB "store"))) (elephant:open-store store-spec))

The only visible error is a status message in emacs: Lisp connection closed unexpectedly: exited abnormally with code 256

I am running SBCL 0.9.8 on ubuntu dapper 2.6.15-27-386. I do not know what version of slime I have, but I downloaded it within the past few weeks from the slime site. I read about a similar problem that was resolved by using an inferor-lisp-program of "nohup sbcl", but that causes other problems for me (I can elaborate if this seems like the right idea).

I am simultaneously involved in a discussion on the elephant-devel mailing list about this same issue. See that thread here: http://common-lisp.net/pipermail/elephant-devel/2006-October/000549.html

Does the same happen without Slime? Start SBCL with sbcl --userinit /dev/null --sysinit /dev/null and evaluate the same forms. If the SBCL does the dodo thing, it obviously isn't a Slime issue. In either case, I would recommend getting a newer SBCL: 0.9.8 is nine months old. Cheers, -- Nikodemus Schemer: "Buddha is small, clean, and serious." Lispnik: "Buddha is big, has hairy armpits, and laughs."