Any system I try to load fails with ASDF/FIND-COMPONENT:MISSING-COMPONENT about quicklisp-client

[quicklisp]

The fact that it suggests it needs to load "asdf" to proceed is a red flag. It is usually already present in a normal setup. How did you install Lisp and ASDF?

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On Wed, Nov 27, 2019 at 8:14 AM Emil Segerbäck ***@***.***> wrote: * (ql:system-apropos "alexandria") #<SYSTEM alexandria / alexandria-20190710-git / quicklisp 2019-10-08> #<SYSTEM alexandria-tests / alexandria-20190710-git / quicklisp 2019-10-08> * (ql:quickload "alexandria") To load "alexandria": Load 1 ASDF system: asdf Install 1 Quicklisp release: alexandria ; Loading "alexandria" debugger invoked on a ASDF/FIND-COMPONENT:MISSING-COMPONENT in thread #<THREAD "main thread" RUNNING {10005084C3}>: Component "alexandria" not found 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 ASDF operation. 1: [CLEAR-CONFIGURATION-AND-RETRY] Retry ASDF operation after resetting the configuration. 2: Retry ASDF operation. 3: Retry ASDF operation after resetting the configuration. 4: [ABORT ] Give up on "alexandria" 5: Exit debugger, returning to top level. ((:METHOD ASDF/OPERATE:OPERATE (SYMBOL T)) ASDF/LISP-ACTION:LOAD-OP "alexandria" :VERBOSE NIL) [fast-method] source: (ERROR 'MISSING-COMPONENT :REQUIRES COMPONENT) 0] I tried the CLEAR-CONFIGURATION-AND-RETRY restart but it made no difference. I also tried removing my quicklisp folder and installing it again but that did not help either. I tried looking for anyone with a similar problem but I did not find anyone. I am pretty much a beginner when it comes to lisp so if this actually is a duplicated issue I guess I might have missed it. — You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#190?email_source=notifications&email_token=AACPNLOL5Y2IEJGT45E3PSDQVZXEHA5CNFSM4JSGT7VKYY3PNVWWK3TUL52HS4DFUVEXG43VMWVGG33NNVSW45C7NFSM4H4NCIOA>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AACPNLPZQVZIBP5DVNGK6EDQVZXEHANCNFSM4JSGT7VA> .

[Emiluren]

Hm, I am using Arch linux and have SBCL installed from the standard repositories. I don't think I did anything specifically for ASDF.

[Emiluren]

For what it's worth I get similar errors in ECL and Clisp

$ ecl --load ~/quicklisp/setup.lisp 
;;; Loading "/home/emil/quicklisp/setup.lisp"
;;; Loading #P"/usr/lib/ecl-16.1.3/asdf.fas"

ECL (Embeddable Common-Lisp) 16.1.3 (git:UNKNOWN)
Copyright (C) 1984 Taiichi Yuasa and Masami Hagiya
Copyright (C) 1993 Giuseppe Attardi
Copyright (C) 2000 Juan J. Garcia-Ripoll
Copyright (C) 2016 Daniel Kochmanski
ECL is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
under certain conditions; see file 'Copyright' for details.
Type :h for Help.  
Top level in: #<process TOP-LEVEL>.
> (ql:quickload "alexandria")
To load "alexandria":
  Load 1 ASDF system:
    asdf
  Install 1 Quicklisp release:
    alexandria
; Loading "alexandria"

Condition of type: MISSING-COMPONENT
Component "alexandria" not found
Available restarts:

1. (RETRY) Retry ASDF operation.
2. (CLEAR-CONFIGURATION-AND-RETRY) Retry ASDF operation after resetting the configuration.
3. (ABORT) Give up on "alexandria"
4. (RESTART-TOPLEVEL) Go back to Top-Level REPL.

$ clisp
  i i i i i i i       ooooo    o        ooooooo   ooooo   ooooo
  I I I I I I I      8     8   8           8     8     o  8    8
  I  \ `+' /  I      8         8           8     8        8    8
   \  `-+-'  /       8         8           8      ooooo   8oooo
    `-__|__-'        8         8           8           8  8
        |            8     o   8           8     o     8  8
  ------+------       ooooo    8oooooo  ooo8ooo   ooooo   8

Welcome to GNU CLISP 2.49.93+ (2018-02-18) <http://clisp.org/>

Copyright (c) Bruno Haible, Michael Stoll 1992-1993
Copyright (c) Bruno Haible, Marcus Daniels 1994-1997
Copyright (c) Bruno Haible, Pierpaolo Bernardi, Sam Steingold 1998
Copyright (c) Bruno Haible, Sam Steingold 1999-2000
Copyright (c) Sam Steingold, Bruno Haible 2001-2018

Type :h and hit Enter for context help.

[1]> (load "~/quicklisp/setup.lisp")
;; Loading file /home/emil/quicklisp/setup.lisp ...
;;  Loading file /home/emil/quicklisp/cache/asdf-fasls/0e0xuy/asdf.fas ...
;;  Loaded file /home/emil/quicklisp/cache/asdf-fasls/0e0xuy/asdf.fas
WARNING: DEFGENERIC: redefining function DIST in
         /home/emil/.cache/common-lisp/clisp-2.49.93+-unix-x64/home/emil/quicklisp/quicklisp/dist.fas, was defined in
         top-level
WARNING: DEFGENERIC: redefining function SYSTEM-INDEX-URL in
         /home/emil/.cache/common-lisp/clisp-2.49.93+-unix-x64/home/emil/quicklisp/quicklisp/dist.fas, was defined in
         top-level
WARNING: DEFGENERIC: redefining function RELEASE-INDEX-URL in
         /home/emil/.cache/common-lisp/clisp-2.49.93+-unix-x64/home/emil/quicklisp/quicklisp/dist.fas, was defined in
         top-level
WARNING: DEFGENERIC: redefining function AVAILABLE-VERSIONS-URL in
         /home/emil/.cache/common-lisp/clisp-2.49.93+-unix-x64/home/emil/quicklisp/quicklisp/dist.fas, was defined in
         top-level
WARNING: DEFGENERIC: redefining function RELEASE in
         /home/emil/.cache/common-lisp/clisp-2.49.93+-unix-x64/home/emil/quicklisp/quicklisp/dist.fas, was defined in
         top-level
WARNING: DEFGENERIC: redefining function NAME in
         /home/emil/.cache/common-lisp/clisp-2.49.93+-unix-x64/home/emil/quicklisp/quicklisp/dist.fas, was defined in
         top-level
WARNING: DEFGENERIC: redefining function BASE-DIRECTORY in
         /home/emil/.cache/common-lisp/clisp-2.49.93+-unix-x64/home/emil/quicklisp/quicklisp/dist.fas, was defined in
         top-level
WARNING: DEFGENERIC: redefining function METADATA-NAME in
         /home/emil/.cache/common-lisp/clisp-2.49.93+-unix-x64/home/emil/quicklisp/quicklisp/dist.fas, was defined in
         top-level
WARNING: DEFGENERIC: redefining function PREFERENCE-PARENT in
         /home/emil/.cache/common-lisp/clisp-2.49.93+-unix-x64/home/emil/quicklisp/quicklisp/dist.fas, was defined in
         top-level
WARNING: DEFGENERIC: redefining function SHORT-DESCRIPTION in
         /home/emil/.cache/common-lisp/clisp-2.49.93+-unix-x64/home/emil/quicklisp/quicklisp/dist.fas, was defined in
         top-level
WARNING: DEFGENERIC: redefining function PROVIDED-RELEASES in
         /home/emil/.cache/common-lisp/clisp-2.49.93+-unix-x64/home/emil/quicklisp/quicklisp/dist.fas, was defined in
         top-level
WARNING: DEFGENERIC: redefining function PROVIDED-SYSTEMS in
         /home/emil/.cache/common-lisp/clisp-2.49.93+-unix-x64/home/emil/quicklisp/quicklisp/dist.fas, was defined in
         top-level
WARNING: DEFGENERIC: redefining function ARCHIVE-URL in
         /home/emil/.cache/common-lisp/clisp-2.49.93+-unix-x64/home/emil/quicklisp/quicklisp/dist.fas, was defined in
         top-level
;; Loaded file /home/emil/quicklisp/setup.lisp
#P"/home/emil/quicklisp/setup.lisp"
[2]> (ql:quickload "alexandria")
To load "alexandria":
  Load 1 ASDF system:
    asdf
  Install 1 Quicklisp release:
    alexandria
; Loading "alexandria"

*** - Component "alexandria" not found
The following restarts are available:
REINITIALIZE-SOURCE-REGISTRY-AND-RETRY :R1 Retry finding system alexandria after reinitializing the source-registry.
ABORT          :R2      Give up on "alexandria"
ABORT          :R3      Abort main loop

[Emiluren]

I'm not sure why Clisp gave me a lot of warnings. Maybe it's because I used load inside the repl?

[Emiluren]

Oh, I managed to solve it! It turned out I had a directory /usr/share/common-lisp/source/ for alexandria and clx and those happened to be the packages I tried loading through quicklisp. I removed it and now everything works as it should :). (I think it must have been created because I tried installing stumpwm through AUR)