Initial startup fails on Catalina with SBCL

[GlenHenshaw]

$ sbcl --load ./cl-jupyter.lisp
This is SBCL 1.5.9, an implementation of ANSI Common Lisp.
More information about SBCL is available at <http://www.sbcl.org/>.

SBCL is free software, provided as is, with absolutely no warranty.
It is mostly in the public domain; some portions are provided under
BSD-style licenses.  See the CREDITS and COPYING files in the
distribution for more information.
... initialization mode... please wait...
To load "cl-jupyter":
  Load 1 ASDF system:
    cl-jupyter
; Loading "cl-jupyter"
...While evaluating the form starting at line 5, column 0
  of #P"/Users/glenhenshaw/Code/cl-jupyter/./cl-jupyter.lisp":

debugger invoked on a ASDF/SESSION:FORMATTED-SYSTEM-DEFINITION-ERROR in thread
#<THREAD "main thread" RUNNING {10005184C3}>:
  OPERATION instances must only be created through MAKE-OPERATION.

Type HELP for debugger help, or (SB-EXT:EXIT) to exit from SBCL.

restarts (invokable by number or by possibly-abbreviated name):
  0: [RETRY                        ] Retry
                                     compiling #<GROVEL-FILE "pzmq" "grovel">.
  1: [ACCEPT                       ] Continue, treating
                                     compiling #<GROVEL-FILE "pzmq" "grovel">
                                     as having been successful.
  2:                                 Retry ASDF operation.
  3: [CLEAR-CONFIGURATION-AND-RETRY] Retry ASDF operation after resetting the
                                     configuration.
  4:                                 Retry ASDF operation.
  5:                                 Retry ASDF operation after resetting the
                                     configuration.
  6: [ABORT                        ] Give up on "cl-jupyter"
  7: [RETRY                        ] Retry EVAL of current toplevel form.
  8: [CONTINUE                     ] Ignore error and continue loading file "/Users/glenhenshaw/Code/cl-jupyter/./cl-jupyter.lisp".
  9:                                 Abort loading file "/Users/glenhenshaw/Code/cl-jupyter/./cl-jupyter.lisp".
 10:                                 Ignore runtime option --load "./cl-jupyter.lisp".
 11:                                 Skip rest of --eval and --load options.
 12:                                 Skip to toplevel READ/EVAL/PRINT loop.
 13: [EXIT                         ] Exit SBCL (calling #'EXIT, killing the process).

(ASDF/SESSION:SYSDEF-ERROR "OPERATION instances must only be created through MAKE-OPERATION.")
   source: (ERROR 'FORMATTED-SYSTEM-DEFINITION-ERROR :FORMAT-CONTROL FORMAT
                  :FORMAT-ARGUMENTS ARGUMENTS)
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[fredokun]

Since it's the last version of sbcl there may be some incompatible dependency ? The error seems related to ASDF (and maybe quicklisp ?). I'll try to reproduce it anyways.

[GlenHenshaw]

...I think this is probably pilot error. Uninstalling sbcl via Homebrew, followed by deleting the quicklisp directory and installing everything from scratch, appears to mostly have solved the problem.

The one remaining problem was an error when starting the Jupyter lisp kernel that reported that "sbcl" cannot be found. Homebrew installs into /usr/local/bin, and it looks like Jupyter isn't looking there. So I modified the json file directly to give it an absolute path to sbcl and then it started working.