Maxima encountered a Lisp error on start up

I get the following error message when starting Maxima.  What's the fix
for this?


60:dbt at loki:~> /usr/bin/maxima
Maxima 5.20.1 http://maxima.sourceforge.net
using Lisp CLISP 2.47 (2008-10-23)
Distributed under the GNU Public License. See the file COPYING.
Dedicated to the memory of William Schelter.
The function bug_report() provides bug reporting information.

stdin:1:Incorrect syntax: Premature termination of input at ;.
;
Maxima encountered a Lisp error:

 
SYSTEM::FORMAT-TABULATE: argument -1 is not a nonnegative fixnum

Automatically continuing.
To enable the Lisp debugger set *debugger-hook* to nil.

*** - THROW: there is no CATCHer for tag RETURN-FROM-DEBUGGER
The following restarts are available:
MACSYMA-QUIT   :R1      Maxima top-level
Break 1 [1]> 


Thanks,
Duane