From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/13797 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Paul Bibbings Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: Debugging an imap connection in gnus Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2010 01:44:51 +0000 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: <87y6hh899o.fsf@gmail.com> References: <87k4t1b7s3.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1273018307 14749 80.91.229.12 (5 May 2010 00:11:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 5 May 2010 00:11:47 +0000 (UTC) To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org Original-X-From: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed May 05 02:11:46 2010 connect(): No such file or directory Return-path: Envelope-to: gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O9SDK-0001dj-5n for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 May 2010 02:11:46 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:35753 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1O9SDJ-0006gZ-FS for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 May 2010 20:11:45 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!news-2.dfn.de!news.dfn.de!feeder.erje.net!feeder.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus Original-Lines: 39 Injection-Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2010 01:44:53 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: feeder.eternal-september.org; logging-data="13552"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+FeSVbHkuvSaf+1plJyAhPgGY64UZE21s=" User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/23.1 (windows-nt) X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 100324-1, 24/03/2010), Outbound message Cancel-Lock: sha1:qtTbacyukpg8rv+8CsHhz+JrKuU= sha1:h6X2ZK5YDTJlqMjy+4d7LJIwkho= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.gnus:84172 X-BeenThere: info-gnus-english@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 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: , Original-Sender: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:13797 Archived-At: Paul Bibbings writes: > I've been reading my gmail in gnus for some while now, and without > issue. I'm running gnus v0.11, emacs 23.1.1 (i386-mingw-nt6.0.6002) on > Windows Vista. To connect to my gmail I've been using imap with an ssl > connection that uses a version of openssl bundled with the Cygwin > environment. Today there was a major upgrade of Cygwin to 1.7.2-1 > coupled with a release upgrade of openssl to 0.9.8m-1. After the > upgrades, I can no longer connect to the imap server from gnus. Responding to myself, I have managed to solve this without having to try and decipher the error messages I was getting from Gnus. It turned out to be something very remote from either Gnus, or Cygwin for that matter. In my environment variables on my Windows installation I had (for whatever reason) SHELL=C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe That's odd, in itself, since Windows doesn't need bash as a shell, and Cygwin would need this to be /usr/bin/bash.exe. Having upgraded Cygwin today I found that this EV confused both mintty and xterm and so I changed it to SHELL=/usr/bin/bash.exe and they both started working again. But it was /this/ change that broke openssl when it was called from Emacs, while it still worked from bash. The truth is, all three - mintty, xterm and Emacs (Gnus) /would/ read this EV if it was there, but none needed it. So, it was simply a matter of removing it and everything works fine again. I notice that other people who have upgraded Cygwin today are having similar problems, so this is just to post something in case anyone else is scratching their heads over similar problems. Aside from that, apologies for the noise. Regards Paul Bibbings