Re: Agent and 'Couldn't open server'

[Kevin Greiner <kgreiner@xpediantsolutions.com>]

Robert Epprecht <epprecht@solnet.ch> writes:

> I was downloading news into Gnus Agent, switched to another console,
> did other things, switched my modem off, but forgot to tell the Agent
> that gnus is unplugged...
>
> Later I came back and wanted to read news. Gnus tells me, that it can't
> connect and offers me to go offline.  As I do not really understand the
> difference between offline and unplugged I answer 'n' and do 'J J'
> instead.  But when I try to enter a group Gnus still tells me that it
> 'Couldn't open server'. This might be correct, but I would have expected
> to read news from the Agents cache now.
>
> What do you think?

Well, you left off one additional connection state: denied.  If you
are online but unable to connect to a server, you are given the choice
between changing the server's state from online to either offline
(i.e. use the agent) or denied (i.e. do not use the agent).  You
choosed the later which is why you're getting the "couldn't open
server" message.

Since you abnormally ended the agent's fetch operation, you may have
downloaded some articles that are not yet acknowledged by the agent.
Rather than downloading them again, you can execute M-x
gnus-agent-regenerate to recover them.

Kevin