From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/18703 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eric Abrahamsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: gnus starting with an error message - very strange Date: Fri, 08 Sep 2017 14:22:38 -0700 Message-ID: <877ex828dd.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1504905911 16465 195.159.176.226 (8 Sep 2017 21:25:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2017 21:25:11 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org Original-X-From: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Sep 08 23:25:07 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dqQlk-0003W8-Jr for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Fri, 08 Sep 2017 23:24:56 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47379 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dqQlr-0007yy-OO for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Fri, 08 Sep 2017 17:25:03 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:37303) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dqQlp-0007yf-9S for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Sep 2017 17:25:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dqQlj-0006t6-6P for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Sep 2017 17:25:01 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=42508 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dqQli-0006rD-Vy for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Sep 2017 17:24:55 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dqQlI-0002DM-25 for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Sep 2017 23:24:28 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 11 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:POkMEjetZ96b4MlcrXb7ZPnWFQk= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: info-gnus-english@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:18703 Archived-At: emil.vatai@gmail.com writes: > The error message is "Warning: Opening nntp server on news...failed: >>>> (error news/nntp Name or service not known); Server nntp+news > previously determined to be down; not retrying;" I'm not sure, but try looking at the Server buffers on both machines (with "^") and seeing if they look different? Try hitting "O" on the nntp server line on the non-functioning machine? Eric