[Sbcl-devel] sbcl linux x86 hangs at startup

[Lui F. <fun...@gm...>]

Hi,

I have a fedora 4 image running in vmware.

# uname -a
Linux i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

I installed sbcl-0.9.17-x86-linux-binary.tar.bz2 on it and didn't run
into any problem. I use it for developement everyday.

I also install it on two of my coworkers's vmware machine (same fedora
4 image, but they might have installed other tools or libraries)

However, when I run it it will hang before I can see the REPL. top
shows that its using all the cpu. There are no init files and using
--no-sysinit --no-userinit options doesn't make any difference. Also,
I cannot kill it with C-\ or C-c.

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# sbcl
This is SBCL 0.9.17, 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.

;; HANGS HERE

# top
PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
28285 vmware      25   0  863m  36m  35m R 83.4  4.1   0:22.48 sbcl

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Then I tried to build it from source using clisp. After a long period
of time again I saw the banner but it hangs there again permanently,
using most cpu time.

Can anyone suggest ways for me to diagnose this problem?

Thank you,
fungsin.

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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.

make-target-2.sh: line 35: 28285 Terminated
./src/runtime/sbcl --core output/cold-sbcl.core --no-sysinit
--no-userinit <make-target-2.lisp