Re: [Sbcl-help] Error starting SBCL w/ slime 1.2.1

[Kevin A. S. <ke...@el...>]

Christophe Rhodes wrote:
> "Kevin A. Smith" <ke...@el...> writes:
> 
> 
>>I'm running the x86-64 sbcl 0.9.0 build on an otherwise problem-free
>>install of Ubuntu Hoary.
> 
> 
> This is the problem.  The kernel as distributed with Ubuntu Hoary
> contains a bug which interferes with anything which uses userspace
> traps.  SBCL will start up in the console, but the first error, or the
> first garbage-collection write barrier trap, will cause it to segfault.
> 
> The bug I reported is at
> <https://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=10246>; it doesn't look
> like it will be fixed, so you will have to build your own kernel, I'm
> afraid.  The patch linked from that bug works for me.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Christophe
> 
> 
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Thanks for this info. Changing that one line in traps.c fixed it.

Thanks again,
Kevin