On Tue, 22 Jun 2004, Andras Simon wrote:

If you have trouble starting up (a recent copy of) slime with abcl, try setting *swank-debug-p* to nil. The problem is probably a symptom of a bug in abcl's synonym-stream implementation. (There may be other issues involved.)

Peter Graves fixed the abcl bug, so slime should work out of the box now. BTW, I think he more than deserves a place in the Thanks! section of the Credits chapter of the doc, so I put him in there. Andras