To: Kathryn_Van_Stone@POP.CS.CMU.EDU
cc: cmucl-bugs@cs.cmu.edu
Subject: Re: Problems running Lisp 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 27 Feb 1995 00:14:30 EST."
             <20331.793862070@POP.CS.CMU.EDU> 
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> When I started up Hemlock today (I had a previous version running for
> about a month or so), I got the following error (while executing my
> rather extensive initialization file):
...

Before starting list, say:

	setenv CMUCLLIB /usr/misc/.cmucl/lib

if your machine is a pmax_mach machine, and:

	setenv CMUCLLIB /usr/local/lib/cmucl/lib

if it one of the Vendor OS platforms (hp, alpha, SunOS sun).

The problem is that version 17f has a bug in where it gets the mach
vs. non-mach test backwards when defaulting the library: search-list.
Setting CMUCLLIB causes it to use that instead of its (broken) idea of
the default.

The problem just showed up now for pmax_mach users because when we
originally built 17f, we ran out of disk space before the pmax version
was completed, so it never got installed.  I (yes, the fault is mine
-- my most humble apologies) recently ``fixed'' that by finishing the
build of 17f for the pmax and installing it.

We've decided to build a 17f' that is just 17f plus this one bug fix,
and it will be ready for alpha testing tomorrow (I've learned my
lession -- I'm not going to release it directly to beta again).  But
the setenv will get you on the air immediately.

> Note that under the previous (and currently under the omega) release
> anytime the debugger was called I got the follow comments:
> 
> Starting server:
>    will_fork  = False
>    will_trace = False
>    No Inet domain socket created.
>    path       = /tmp/.motif_socket-p374
> Waiting for connection.
> Accepting client on Unix socket.
> Accepted client on fd 4
> Server not forking.
> Warning:  Motif server died.
> Status = :SIGNALED, exit code = 11.

The motifd server is apparently broken, and we never noticed.  I have
no idea how this happened, as I long ago decided that I'd rather never
run the motif based debugger.  If you put:

	(when (find-package "INTERFACE")
	  (set (intern "*INTERFACE-STYLE*" :interface) :tty))

In your init file, it will suppress the use of the motif based
debugger.  The use of find-package and intern make it so that your
init file will still load even if the interface package doesn't exist.

Once again, I apologize for the inconvenience.

-William Lott
Gwydion Project
Carnegie Mellon