Emacs slime mini buffer take-over

Question

For no obvious reason firing up slime in Emacs produces this message in the mini buffer:

Polling "/tmp/slime.5000 .. 25 (Abort with `M-x slime-abort-connection'.) [730 times]

That [730 times] keeps growing. Supposedly, this means slime had trouble starting, but no, it's working fine.

Here's my Messages buffer starting with slime initialization:

../../quicklisp/dists/quicklisp/software/slime-20130217-cvs/contrib/slime-package-fu.el: flet' is an obsolete macro (as of 24.3); use eithercl-flet' or cl-letf'. [4 times] Starting Emacs daemon. When done with this frame, type C-x 5 0 Polling "/tmp/slime.5080" .. 1 (Abort withM-x slime-abort-connection'.) Polling "/tmp/slime.5080" .. 2 (Abort with M-x slime-abort-connection'.) Polling "/tmp/slime.5080" .. 3 (Abort withM-x slime-abort-connection'.) Polling "/tmp/slime.5080" .. 4 (Abort with M-x slime-abort-connection'.) Polling "/tmp/slime.5080" .. 5 (Abort withM-x slime-abort-connection'.) Polling "/tmp/slime.5080" .. 6 (Abort with M-x slime-abort-connection'.) Polling "/tmp/slime.5080" .. 7 (Abort withM-x slime-abort-connection'.) Polling "/tmp/slime.5080" .. 8 (Abort with M-x slime-abort-connection'.) Polling "/tmp/slime.5080" .. 9 (Abort withM-x slime-abort-connection'.) Polling "/tmp/slime.5080" .. 10 (Abort with M-x slime-abort-connection'.) Polling "/tmp/slime.5080" .. 11 (Abort withM-x slime-abort-connection'.) Polling "/tmp/slime.5080" .. 12 (Abort with M-x slime-abort-connection'.) Polling "/tmp/slime.5080" .. 13 (Abort withM-x slime-abort-connection'.) Polling "/tmp/slime.5080" .. 14 (Abort with M-x slime-abort-connection'.) Polling "/tmp/slime.5080" .. 15 (Abort withM-x slime-abort-connection'.) Polling "/tmp/slime.5080" .. 16 (Abort with M-x slime-abort-connection'.) Polling "/tmp/slime.5080" .. 17 (Abort withM-x slime-abort-connection'.) Polling "/tmp/slime.5080" .. 18 (Abort with M-x slime-abort-connection'.) Polling "/tmp/slime.5080" .. 19 (Abort withM-x slime-abort-connection'.) Polling "/tmp/slime.5080" .. 20 (Abort with M-x slime-abort-connection'.) Polling "/tmp/slime.5080" .. 21 (Abort withM-x slime-abort-connection'.) Polling "/tmp/slime.5080" .. 22 (Abort with M-x slime-abort-connection'.) Polling "/tmp/slime.5080" .. 23 (Abort withM-x slime-abort-connection'.) Polling "/tmp/slime.5080" .. 24 (Abort with M-x slime-abort-connection'.) Polling "/tmp/slime.5080" .. 25 (Abort withM-x slime-abort-connection'.) Connecting to Swank on port 39808.. Polling "/tmp/slime.5080" .. 25 (Abort with M-x slime-abort-connection'.) [2 times] Source file /home/lawrence/.emacs.d/elpa/clojure-mode-1.11.5/clojure-mode.el' newer than byte-compiled file Connected. Let the hacking commence! Polling "/tmp/slime.5080" .. 25 (Abort with M-x slime-abort-connection'.) [297 times] Mark set Polling "/tmp/slime.5080" .. 25 (Abort withM-x slime-abort-connection'.) [207 times] Mark saved where search started Polling "/tmp/slime.5080" .. 25 (Abort with M-x slime-abort-connection'.) [58 times] Cancelled connection attempt. Polling "/tmp/slime.5080" .. 25 (Abort withM-x slime-abort-connection'.) [1159 times] byte-code: Beginning of buffer Polling "/tmp/slime.5080" .. 25 (Abort with M-x slime-abort-connection'.) [2 times] byte-code: Beginning of buffer [2 times] Polling "/tmp/slime.5080" .. 25 (Abort withM-x slime-abort-connection'.) [2 times] byte-code: Beginning of buffer Polling "/tmp/slime.5080" .. 25 (Abort with M-x slime-abort-connection'.) byte-code: Beginning of buffer Polling "/tmp/slime.5080" .. 25 (Abort withM-x slime-abort-connection'.) [202 times]

Answer 1

For me on Debian 10, installing the cl-swank package fixed the issue.

This package contains the Lisp-side server, needed by the Emacs client (see package slime).

(My slime is also from the Debian repo.)

Answer 2

The same error occurred on my Emacs + Slime + CCL/SBCL/CLISP/ECL，and I had a solution, On my system, it is ok! you can try.

The reason of the error maybe the versions of slime and swank are mismatch. So the solution is to use the same version slime and swank.

My system is Raspbian(one kind of debian). I installed slime with the command "apt-get install slime"，then slime and emacs will be installed automatically to the path "/usr/share/common-lisp/source/slime/". But I think the version is not the newest one.

The solution: 1、Get the newest slime to your home path: command:

cd ~/ sudo git clone https://github.com/slime/slime slime cd slime make

2、Add tmp path and load-path in ~/.emacs:

(setq temporary-file-directory "/tmp") (add-to-list 'load-path "/home/pi/slime/")

3、Rename the /usr/share/common-lisp/source/slime/ to /usr/share/common-lisp/source/slime-back/ command:

sudo mv /usr/share/common-lisp/source/slime/ /usr/share/common-lisp/source/slime-back/

4、Use the newest slime to create a symbol link command:

sudo ln -s /home/pi/slime //usr/share/common-lisp/source/slime

5、Remove the cache and temp files command:

sudo mv ~/.cache/common-lisp ~/.cache/common-lisp-back

OK, now you can try to start emacs and slime.

Answer 3

Clean out your .cache/common-lisp/

Answer 4

For me, the problem was that there wasn't a /tmp folder in my .emacs.d/ folder. Adding the /tmp folder solved the problem

Answer 5

The infinite polling may be due to the missing of file swank-loader.lisp. Check the variable slime-backend to see whether it contains the right path to swank-loader.lisp.

On my computer I don't even have a swank-loader.lisp file(I noticed that if you install the slime using elpa, this may happen). So I downloaded the entire slime from here and got it right.

Answer 6

after install emacs 24.3，i have the same problem，you can do like this

cd /path/slime/contrib
find ./ -name '*.elc' | xargs rm -f

then,restart your emacs