Bug#640815: slime: Crash upon loading: there is no package with name "ASDF"

[Sébastien Villemot]

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

Upon startup with "M-x slime", on a fresh install of slime, I get the
following crash:

(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.11188" :coding-system "iso-latin-1-unix"))

  i i i i i i i       ooooo    o        ooooooo   ooooo   ooooo
  I I I I I I I      8     8   8           8     8     o  8    8
  I  \ `+' /  I      8         8           8     8        8    8
   \  `-+-'  /       8         8           8      ooooo   8oooo
    `-__|__-'        8         8           8           8  8
        |            8     o   8           8     o     8  8
  ------+------       ooooo    8oooooo  ooo8ooo   ooooo   8

Welcome to GNU CLISP 2.49 (2010-07-07) <http://clisp.cons.org/>

Copyright (c) Bruno Haible, Michael Stoll 1992, 1993
Copyright (c) Bruno Haible, Marcus Daniels 1994-1997
Copyright (c) Bruno Haible, Pierpaolo Bernardi, Sam Steingold 1998
Copyright (c) Bruno Haible, Sam Steingold 1999-2000
Copyright (c) Sam Steingold, Bruno Haible 2001-2010

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[1]> 
;; Loading file /usr/share/common-lisp/source/slime/swank-loader.lisp ...
*** - READ de
       #<INPUT BUFFERED FILE-STREAM CHARACTER
         #P"/usr/share/common-lisp/source/slime/swank-loader.lisp" @143>
      : there is no package with name "ASDF"

The following restarts are available:
ABORT          :R1      Abort main loop
Break 1 SWANK-LOADER[2]> 


I can reproduce the problem when Emacs is run with "--no-init-file".

I am new to Common Lisp, so I may have missed something obvious: feel
free to reassign/close if relevant.

Best,

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (600, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.38-2-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.utf8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages slime depends on:
ii  dpkg                      1.16.0.3       Debian package management system
ii  emacsen-common            1.4.22         Common facilities for all emacsen
ii  install-info              4.13a.dfsg.1-6 Manage installed documentation in 

Versions of packages slime recommends:
ii  cl-swank                  1:20110806-1   Superior LISP Interaction Mode for
ii  emacs23 [info-browser]    23.3+1-1       The GNU Emacs editor (with GTK+ us
ii  info [info-browser]       4.13a.dfsg.1-6 Standalone GNU Info documentation 

slime suggests no packages.

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