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From: emil.vatai@gmail.com
To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org
Subject: gnus starting with an error message - very strange
Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2017 12:09:10 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <dd05eefa-7cbf-4b59-8533-06502390976e@googlegroups.com> (raw)

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;"

The strange thing is, that I have two computers with very similar OS (arch linux), sharing the same emacs config, and on one machine it works perfectly, and on the other I get the error above. The really strange thing is, that on the first (good) machine there is no error when I start gnus form "emacs -Q" while on the second (bad) machine, gnus is complaining (the same error message) even if it is was started from an emacs with no config loaded (i.e. emacs -Q). 

Does anyone have any idea what could be wrong??? How I should even start fixing it. emacs -Q already tried. reinstalling emacs also tried

I was asking around #emacs on freenode, but since I switched to ERC recently, and was trying to fix this error, I always disconnected from IRC before seeing any answers :( (stupid me)

Best regards,
Emil

             reply	other threads:[~2017-09-08 19:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-09-08 19:09 emil.vatai [this message]
2017-09-08 21:22 ` Eric Abrahamsen
     [not found] ` <mailman.172.1504905902.14750.info-gnus-english@gnu.org>
2017-09-09 18:17   ` Emil Vatai
2017-09-09 18:33     ` Emil Vatai
2017-09-09 21:39 ` Adam Sjøgren
     [not found] ` <mailman.213.1504993195.14750.info-gnus-english@gnu.org>
2017-09-10  8:29   ` Emil Vatai
2017-09-10  9:57     ` Adam Sjøgren

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