Subject: bug#50890: 27.2; Can't connect to elpa.gnu.org

From: Stephan Hradek <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2021 15:27:54 +0000

Hi.

Strangely enough the issue reoccured after I put

(require 'package)
(add-to-list 'package-archives
             '("melpa-stable" . "https://stable.melpa.org/packages/"))
(package-initialize)
into my .emacs

Stephan Hradek

> Am 29.09.2021 um 17:20 schrieb Stefan Kangas <[email-masked]>:
> 
> Stephan Hradek <[email-masked]> writes:
> 
>> Trying to do a package-refresh-contents my emacs times out reporting
>> 
>> error in process sentinel: Error retrieving: https://elpa.gnu.org/packages/archive-contents (error connection-failed "connect" :host
>> "elpa.gnu.org" :service 443) [2 times]
>> 
>> Trying with M-x eww to load that url fails
>> 
>> Other URLs like gnu.org or ix.de work
> 
> It works for me.  Did you try getting that file with wget or curl?
> 
> Could you try it again, to exclude some intermittent network failure?