Quicklisp fails to load

[patrickmay]

Mac running Mojave, SBZCL version 1.5.0:

• (ql:quickload :cl-autowrap)
  To load "cl-autowrap":
  Load 7 ASDF systems:
  alexandria asdf cffi cl-json cl-ppcre trivial-features
  uiop
  Install 2 Quicklisp releases:
  cl-autowrap defpackage-plus
  ; Fetching #<URL "http://beta.quicklisp.org/archive/defpackage-plus/2018-01-31/defpackage-plus-20180131-git.tgz">
  ; 6.33KB
  ==================================================
  6,485 bytes in 0.00 seconds (0.00KB/sec)
  ; Fetching #<URL "http://beta.quicklisp.org/archive/cl-autowrap/2017-10-19/cl-autowrap-20171019-git.tgz">
  ; 74.34KB
  ==================================================
  76,123 bytes in 0.02 seconds (3912.57KB/sec)
  ; Loading "cl-autowrap"
  [package alexandria.0.dev]........................
  [package cffi-utils]..............................
  [package cffi-features]...........................
  [package cffi-sys].....;
  ; caught ERROR:
  ; READ error during COMPILE-FILE:
  ;
  ; Lock on package SB-ALIEN violated when interning SHARED-OBJECT-FILE while in
  ; package CFFI-SYS.
  ; See also:
  ; The SBCL Manual, Node "Package Locks"
  ;
  ; (in form starting at line: 306, column: 0, position: 10629)

Is there a workaround for this?

Thanks.

[borodust]

Does cffi load?

;; Evaluate after clean restart
(ql:quickload :cffi)

[patrickmay]

Nope:

* (ql:quickload :cffi)
To load "cffi":
  Load 1 ASDF system:
    cffi
; Loading "cffi"
[package cffi-sys]....; 
; caught ERROR:
;   READ error during COMPILE-FILE:
;   
;     Lock on package SB-ALIEN violated when interning SHARED-OBJECT-FILE while in
;     package CFFI-SYS.
;   See also:
;     The SBCL Manual, Node "Package Locks"
;   
;     (in form starting at line: 306, column: 0, position: 10629)

[borodust]

This is cffi issue then.

But just in case, ensure you don't have anything in ~/quicklisp/local-projects directory, nuke caches (probably in ~/.cache/common-lisp/), then do

(ql:update-all-dists)

And try again.

[patrickmay]

Thanks for the quick response. I toasted the .cache, but no joy. I'll head over to the CFFI repo.