Bug#646037: slime: won't start with SBCL 2:1.0.52.0-1

[Boris Daix]

Package: slime
Version: 1:20110806-1
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

SLIME is a very nice piece of software and I am missing it.

When running M-x slime, I get the following:

  (progn (load "/usr/share/common-lisp/source/slime/swank-loader.lisp" :verbose t) (funcall (read-from-string "swank-loader:init")) (funcall (read-from-string "swank:start-server") "/tmp/slime.2691" :coding-system "iso-latin-1-unix"))

  This is SBCL 1.0.52.0.debian, 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"/usr/share/common-lisp/source/slime/swank-loader.lisp"

  debugger invoked on a SB-C::INPUT-ERROR-IN-COMPILE-FILE in thread #<THREAD
                                                                      "initial thread" RUNNING

                                                                      {1002918D91}>:
    READ failure in COMPILE-FILE:
      package "ASDF" not found

        Line: 143, Column: 52, File-Position: 5615

        Stream: #<SB-SYS:FD-STREAM
                  for "file /usr/share/common-lisp/source/slime/swank-loader.lisp"
                  {1002933481}>

  Type HELP for debugger help, or (SB-EXT:QUIT) to exit from SBCL.

  restarts (invokable by number or by possibly-abbreviated name):
    0: [ABORT] Abort loading file "/usr/share/common-lisp/source/slime/swank-loader.lisp".
    1:         Exit debugger, returning to top level.

  (SB-C::READ-FOR-COMPILE-FILE
   #<SB-SYS:FD-STREAM
     for "file /usr/share/common-lisp/source/slime/swank-loader.lisp"
     {1002933481}>
   5235)
  0] 

with the message "Polling "/tmp/slime.2691".. (Abort with `M-x slime-abort-connection'.)".

I tried to add "(require 'asdf)" in /etc/sbcl.rc as suggested in
/usr/share/doc/sbcl/NEWS.Debian.gz but it did not change anything.

I have to say that "(require 'asdf)" works fine from a sbcl prompt.

How can I get SLIME back?

Thanks,

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-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.0.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages slime depends on:
ii  dpkg            1.16.1.1      
ii  emacsen-common  1.4.22        
ii  install-info    4.13a.dfsg.1-8

Versions of packages slime recommends:
ii  cl-swank                                       1:20110806-1  
ii  emacs23 | emacs22 | emacs-snapshot | xemacs21  <none>        
ii  emacs23-nox [info-browser]                     23.3+1-1.1    
ii  info [info-browser]                            4.13a.dfsg.1-8

slime suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information

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Boris Daix