[AUCTeX] preview vs beamer

[giacomo . boffi]

while I can load preview.sty in a document formatted according to
the "article" class, when I try to load it in a document formatted
according to the "beamer" class something weird happens as soon as
the tex engine tries to produce a page 

| 
| ! Undefined control sequence.
| address@hidden@Output address@hidden@Shipout 
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| l.5 \end{document}
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| ? 
to which I reply
|   q
| OK, entering \batchmode
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and a zero lenght pippo.pdf file is produced

I tried to compile the beamer document with pdflatex, latex, lualatex
and xelatex to no avail

I attach a complete transcript of my terminal session

any help will be appreciated, thank you in advance
                                                           g

ps, I see that beamer declares itself being a development version, but
    i installed it using debian version of texlive...


| 10:21:48: cat pippo.tex
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{preview}
\begin{document}
Pippo!
\end{document}
| 10:21:51: pdflatex pippo.tex
This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.5-1.40.14 (TeX Live 2013/Debian)
 restricted \write18 enabled.
entering extended mode
(./pippo.tex
LaTeX2e <2011/06/27>
Babel <3.9h> and hyphenation patterns for 4 languages loaded.
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/article.cls
Document Class: article 2007/10/19 v1.4h Standard LaTeX document class
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/size10.clo))
(/usr/local/share/texmf/tex/latex/preview/preview.sty) (./pippo.aux) 
[1{/var/lib/texmf/fonts/map/pdftex/updmap/pdftex.map}] (./pippo.aux) )
</usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/public/amsfonts/cm/cmr10.pfb>
Output written on pippo.pdf (1 page, 11165 bytes).
Transcript written on pippo.log.
| 10:21:53: perl -pi -e's/article/beamer/' pippo.tex
| 10:22:01: pdflatex pippo.tex
This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.5-1.40.14 (TeX Live 2013/Debian)
 restricted \write18 enabled.
entering extended mode
(./pippo.tex
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Babel <3.9h> and hyphenation patterns for 4 languages loaded.
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for typesetting presentations (rcs-revision 24853e6b98cf)
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l.5 \end{document}
                  
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