SLIME killed my computer!

From: William Bland (news_at_abstractnonsense.com)
Date: 05/29/04 

Date: Sat, 29 May 2004 05:10:57 GMT

This is going to sound strange, no doubt, but I recently upgraded my
laptop (Dell Latitude D600) to Fedora Core 2 (Linux). Mostly it's been
great, with a few things that didn't work under Fedora 1 now working.

The funny thing is, if I start SLIME from within Emacs, using SBCL as my
Lisp, it crashes the laptop so badly that I have no option but to hit the
power switch. I guess something in the chain of SLIME, SBCL, Emacs,
XOrg, is tickling a bug in the kernel. I'd love to provide a good bug
report to someone who can fix it, but so far starting SLIME is the only
way I've found to trigger the bug. Starting SBCL from a terminal doesn't
trigger it, and neither does just starting Lisp as an inferior process
from Emacs.

Any ideas?

Cheers,
        Bill. 

-- 
Dr. William Bland.
It would not be too unfair to any language to refer to Java as a
stripped down Lisp or Smalltalk with a C syntax.   (Ken Anderson).

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