[Erc-help] Question about tls.el

[John S. <jo...@fs...>]

After updating to the current CVS, I was unable to use erc-select-ssl.  

My version of tls.el is the version that ships with No Gnus. 

After switching to the version that is in CVS Emacs lisp/net, I was
able to connect. So I suspect that there are some differences between
these two versions of the library that are causing the problems.

Maybe I'll have time to check out what the differences are exactly,
but maybe someone else will get to it before me :).

I can't post the full backtrace because it has passwords and sensitive
info in it which I don't have time to blank out, but the end error was
processp returning nil when it expected a process to have been
created.

This is with GNU Emacs 21.3.1.

On a related note, ERC behaved very badly when I attempted to connect
to the SSL server using just erc-select. The server refused the
connection, but the refusals and reconnection attempts happened so
quickly and repeatedly that there was no way to break the cycle, and I
had to kill Emacs externally. Repeated C-g's only produced a core
dump, and (kill-process) failed to kill the process. Is there a way to
stop these reconnection attempts once they've started? 


-johns