Cannot start LSP on linux, neither on Manjaro nor in Debian-Bulleyes-Docker image. Fails with ERROR about alive-lsp

[nobody-famous]

I need to add this to the readme. Apparently the version of ASDF that comes with the debian sbcl is 3.3.1 and it needs 3.3.2 or 3.3.3.

sudo apt-get install cl-asdf

should fix it. I haven't used Manjaro, but check the ASDF version.

[michaeldelago]

That lines up for me

The current version of sbcl for Arch is listed as out of date, and it's using ASDF 3.3.1 as well.

For now, I was able to work around this by downloading asdf.lisp from the official source, putting it in ~/.local/lib/lisp/asdf.lisp, and adding this to my ~/.sbclrc:

;;; Use latest asdf
(let ((asdf-init (merge-pathnames ".local/lib/lisp/asdf.lisp"
                  (user-homedir-pathname))))
    (when (probe-file asdf-init)
      (load asdf-init)))

When starting sbcl, there will be a bunch of "redefining" warnings, but that's OK. There's probably a better way to do this, but this is what I was able to get working quickly