C-g cannot stop it. I have left it running for > 15 minutes and no sign of stopping too. I know it is gnutls-boot because, I tried: - kill -USR2 - killall emacs and a debug buffer pops up to say that. Unfortunately I was just about to get a copy of the backtrace and the network was back to normal. But I think gnutls is doing some funny business. gnutls should kill itself after some time instead of freeze emacs forever. Leo