[slime-devel] Re: some cancel-timer error

[Surendra Singhi]

Helmut Eller wrote:
> Surendra Singhi <efuzzyone at netscape.net> writes:
> 
> 
>>Hi,
>>    I am using Xemacs 21.4.13 and slime-1.0 with clisp 2.33.1 on
>>window XP. When I try to start slime it says swank started at port
>>1071 but it doesn't connects to the clisp. And on doing debug on error
>>I get the message below.
>>Earlier everything use to work fine, but yesterday I was playing with
>>my Xemacs setting and I landed up in this trouble.
>>
>>Is it some slime problem or clisp or xemacs problem? What is the
>>solution for it?
> 
> 
> It looks like the timer package wasn't loaded.  It's autoloaded in
> Emacs but apparently not in Emacs.  What happens if you do 
> `M-x load-library RET timer' before starting SLIME?

SLIME starts and works fine, but why do I have this problem all of a 
sudden? Earlier I had never loaded the timer library.

I did install and update the packages on my machine, can that be the 
reason for it?

Thanks
-- 
Surendra Singhi

www.public.asu.edu/~sksinghi/