Re: "Cannot read active file from nntp server"

[Miguel Guedes]

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
> <enter username when asked>
> <enter password when asked>
>
> 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)