Hi there, slime (22.9.2005) starts with Clisp ok, but sbcl v0.9.4 gives error: This is SBCL 0.9.4, 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"/home/pekka/slime/swank-loader.lisp" ; compiling file "/home/pekka/slime/swank-backend.lisp" (written 28 AUG 2005 05:47:11 PM): ; ; compilation unit aborted ; caught 2 fatal ERROR conditions * * The *Messages* windows shows: (emacs) Loading disp-table...done Loading tool-bar...done Loading image...done Loading tooltip...done Loading 00debian-vars...done Loading 20gnus-init (source)...done Loading 49url (source)...done Loading 50autoconf (source)...done Loading 50dictionaries-common (source)... Loading /var/cache/dictionaries-common/emacsen-ispell-dicts.el (source)...done Loading ispell...done Loading 50dictionaries-common (source)...done Loading 50emacs-goodies-el (source)...done Loading 50w3 (source)...done Loading cl-macs...done Loading cl-seq...done Loading regexp-opt...done Loading easy-mmode...done Loading edmacro...done Loading derived...done Loading byte-opt...done Loading cl-extra...done For information about the GNU Project and its goals, type C-h C-p. Polling "/tmp/slime.5314".. (Abort with `M-x slime-abort-connection'.) [36 times] the number in last line ([36 times]) keeps increasing. I am using Ubuntu 5.04 in AMD64 -pekka-