Subject: bug#19527: 24.4; elpa.gnu.org seems down

From: Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2015 10:16:27 -0500

> While I do have network access (!), elpa seems unavailable for the last
> 30 mins or so -- at least, that error is generated when refreshing the
> packages:

Either it's a problem somewhere on your end, or the problem has
disappeared, since I just did a M-x list-packages successfully and
visiting http://elpa.gnu.org/packages/ worked fine as well.

        Stefan