From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/15495 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miguel Guedes Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: "Cannot read active file from nntp server" Date: Thu, 10 May 2012 12:27:22 +0100 Organization: readnews.com - News for Geeks and ISPs Message-ID: <4faba61a$0$7527$a8266bb1@newsreader.readnews.com> References: <4fa0f8df$0$15859$88263eea@blocknews.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1336649426 17106 80.91.229.3 (10 May 2012 11:30:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 10 May 2012 11:30:26 +0000 (UTC) To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org Original-X-From: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu May 10 13:30:22 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SSRZb-0006oK-8g for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Thu, 10 May 2012 13:30:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38450 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SSRZa-0006fD-Ja for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Thu, 10 May 2012 07:30:18 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.glorb.com!news-out.readnews.com!transit3.readnews.com!s09-11.readnews.com!unm2.readnews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-X-Trace: DXC=n_H^2JeMY7^4lP6Ko[T]1XG^cGF?V7mIT]G0e@Sk_WTRT6RVf`ncYmVg@\4YOPI=PQ@?7\b<9iWARed1O0UHimK\@eneL[_UF1RUfZ^g; H8PTX Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@blocknews.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:12.0) Gecko/20120430 Thunderbird/12.0.1 Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus In-Reply-To: <4fa0f8df$0$15859$88263eea@blocknews.net> Original-Lines: 31 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 22858b20.newsreader.readnews.com Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.gnus:86555 X-BeenThere: info-gnus-english@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Announcements and discussions for GNUS, the GNU Emacs Usenet newsreader \(in English\)" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:15495 Archived-At: I absolutely hate replying to my own posts but I'm making an exception in this instance as I would really love to be able to access newsgroups from within emacs. Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong OR how I could diagnose the problem? Quoting from my previous message and topic starter: On 02/05/12 10:01, Miguel Guedes wrote: > Hello, > > I can't get emacs gnus to list any newsgroups when I fire it up. > > This is what I do: > > M-x gnus > > > > Then, when it loads up, I get a blank *Group* screen and the "No more > unread newsgroups" message. > > Then attempting to retrieve the full group list from the server using A > A results in the error message "Cannot read active file from nntp server". > > The only settings I added to my .emacs file are: > > ;; Setup NNTP newsgroups > (setq gnus-select-method '(nntp "eunews.blocknews.net")) > (setq gnus-read-active-file nil)