There is nothing Allegro specific about this. On the box with the latest CVS emacs where I am observing this the behaviour, the error occurs with CLISP and CMUCL as well. * Madhu <m3ej1bnhv9.fsf@moon.robolove.meer.net> : Wrote on Mon, 17 Nov 2008 09:06:42 +0530: | I noticed this problem only in emacs 23.0.60 (not 22.1) and allegro | express 8.1 on linux: | ,---- In the *inferior-lisp* buffer: | | (progn (load "~/path/to/slime/swank-loader.lisp" :verbose t) (funcall (read-from-string "swank-loader:init")) (funcall (read-from-string "swank:start-server") "/tmp/slime.12688" :coding-system "iso-latin-1-unix")) | | | | International Allegro CL Free Express Edition | | 8.1 (Linux (x86)) (Jun 29, 2008 13:34) | | Copyright (C) 1985-2007, Franz Inc., Oakland, CA, USA. All Rights | | Reserved. | | | | [snip] | | | | ;; Swank started at port: 40835. | | 40835 | | CL-USER(2): CL-USER(2): | | | | ;; swank:close-connection: eof encountered on stream | | #<MULTIVALENT stream socket connected from | | localhost/40835 to localhost/46300 @ | | #x7158daaa> | `---- | | Allegro drops the connection as soon as emacs connects. I meant SWANK drops the connection as it is reading an EOF | | ,---- And in Emacs: | | Debugger entered: (("Error in timer" slime-attempt-connection (#<process inferior-lisp> nil 2) (file-error "make client process failed" "connection refused" :name "SLIME Lisp" :buffer nil :host "127.0.0.1" :service 56408))) | | (condition-case data (apply fun args) (error (debug nil ...))) | | slime-timer-call(slime-attempt-connection #<process inferior-lisp> nil 2) | | apply(slime-timer-call (slime-attempt-connection #<process inferior-lisp> nil 2)) | | byte-code("[snip]" [timer apply 5 6] 4) | | timer-event-handler([t 18720 56375 253953 0.3 slime-timer-call (slime-attempt-connection #<process inferior-lisp> nil 2) nil]) | `---- | | [The probem persists after updating patches for ACL (including the aug | 27 base patch). The problem was not observed in the ACL 8.1 release | from 2007 (but as that distribution is unavailable, I am not able to | check).] | | The calls at allegro probably looks like: stack | | (ERROR END-OF-FILE :STREAM ...) | ((:EFFT DC-READ-CHAR :LATIN1-BASE) :UNKNOWN :UNKNOWN ...) | (SWANK::DECODE-MESSAGE | #<MULTIVALENT stream socket connected from localhost/43977 to | localhost/55570 @ #x7158963a>) | | I've ensured consistent coding systems between emacs and slime, I am | stumped at finding a workaround, so I am soliciting suggestions | | -- | Madhu