Re: gnus is freezing right after startup

[Slackat]

Lowell Gilbert <lgusenet@be-well.ilk.org> writes:

> William Warren <""william_warren_nonoise\"@speakeasy(William
> Warren).net"> writes:
> 
> > Thanks for reading this. I have a problem with gnus freezing right
> > after I start it. I get a message that says "Loading
> > gnus-start...done", but then emacs stops responding. The only Google
> > hit was from 2001, and it mentioned a file Debian doesn't use, so I'll
> > ask for help from the group.
> >
> > I use emacs 21.4.1 and gnus 5.9.0 on Debian Sarge.
> >
> > Here's the .gnus.el file:
> >
> > (setq user-mail-address "william_warren_nonoise@speakeasy(William\
> > Warren).net")
> > (setq user-full-name "William Warren")
> > (setq gnus-select-method '(nntp "news.speakeasy.net"))
> > (setq send-mail-function 'smtpmail-send-it)
> > (setq message-send-mail-function 'smtpmail-send-it)
> > (setq smtpmail-default-smtp-server "localhost")
> >
> >
> > I set the toggle-debug-on-quit option, and bailed out of gnus with Cntl-g.
> >
> > Here's the debug output:
> >
> > Debugger entered--Lisp error: (quit)
> >   signal(quit nil)
> >   byte-code("ÀÁ!ˆÂÃÄ\"ˆÄ‡" [message "Quit retrieving data from nntp"
> > signal quit nil] 3)
> >   nntp-send-mode-reader()
> >   run-hooks(nntp-server-opened-hook)
> >   nntp-open-connection(#<buffer  *nntpd*>)
> >   nntp-open-server("news.speakeasy.net" nil)
> >   gnus-open-server((nntp "news.speakeasy.net"))
> >   gnus-start-news-server(nil)
> >   gnus-1(nil nil nil)
> >   gnus(nil)
> > * call-interactively(gnus)
> >   execute-extended-command(nil)
> >   call-interactively(execute-extended-command)
> >
> > All suggestions welcome. Thanks for your time
> 
> Hmm.  Strange; it looks like it's actually hanging on the NNTP
> negotiations, so it opened the connection successfully and exchanged
> the initial handshake.  A little bit of NNTP debugging would be the
> next step, if you feel knowledgeable enough about it.  Even if you
> don't, capturing the traffic might be informative.
> 
> news.speakeasy.net is Giganews, which is one of the more reliable
> Usenet servers you could be trying, so at least you shouldn't have to
> debug the server itself.  There could be a firewall getting in the
> way, but you seem to be getting far enough in setting up the
> connection that I consider that unlikely.

I checked giganews previously and again just now and there is no
problem there     

telnet news.speakeasy.net       
Trying 216.196.97.145...
Connected to news.speakeasy.net.
Escape character is '^]'.
200 News.GigaNews.Com

It just seems that he isn't getting through for some reason

I wonder if reviewing the gnus/emacs message buffer might help him?
F10 b m

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