Gnus has been shut down

Gnus has been shut down

[Haines Brown]

I'm runing gnus 5.13 in emacs 23.2.1, under Debian Squeeze. While 
composing a message in gnus I inadvertangly hit the keys that shut 
down my X server (I manage to that every so often ;-( .)

I restarted the server and then emacs. I issued the command M-x gnus 
to go back to gnus, but I was told

  "unable to open server nntp+news"

Nothing has changed in my ~/.gnus file, and I can ping my primary and 
secondary news servers.

I did M-x gnus-bug and got the following debug:

  Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "Gnus has been shut down")
    signal(error ("Gnus has been shut down"))
    error("Gnus has been shut down")
    gnus-bug()
    call-interactively(gnus-bug t nil)
    execute-extended-command(nil)
    call-interactively(execute-extended-command nil nil)
    recursive-edit()
    byte-code("\306

  this was followed by a lot of byte code that won't past here becasue 
  I'm using mutt in a terminal to write this.

Thereafter when I try to do 

  M-x gnus-bug 
  M-x set-variable RET 
  debug-on-error RET 
  t RET

nothing happens except in the emacs minibuffer gnus tells me: 

  "unable to open server" 

or sometimes it says

  "please wait while we snoop your variables..."

and eventually gives up.

Haines Brown

Re: Gnus has been shut down

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Haines Brown <haines@histomat.net> writes:

> I restarted the server and then emacs. I issued the command M-x gnus 
> to go back to gnus, but I was told
>
>   "unable to open server nntp+news"

It sounds like your setup somehow has gotten completely hosed, but it's
difficult to say what the problem really is.  But by now you've either
given up or gotten it working again, I guess.  :-)

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