Make error reporting when doing `M-g' work again

* gnus-group.el (gnus-group-get-new-news-this-group): Don't overwrite
the real error message with the useless "previously known to be down".
Which isn't even correct.

diff --git a/lisp/ChangeLog b/lisp/ChangeLog
index a323a37..b1bc099 100644 (file)
--- a/lisp/ChangeLog
+++ b/lisp/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
 2012-02-01  Lars Ingebrigtsen  <larsi@gnus.org>
 
+       * gnus-group.el (gnus-group-get-new-news-this-group): Don't overwrite
+       the real error message with the useless "previously known to be down".
+       Which isn't even correct.
+
        * nntp.el (nntp-open-connection): Report the error message if the nntp
        server can't be reached.
 

diff --git a/lisp/gnus-group.el b/lisp/gnus-group.el
index 85bd156..de97d9a 100644 (file)
--- a/lisp/gnus-group.el
+++ b/lisp/gnus-group.el
@@ -4072,10 +4072,7 @@ If DONT-SCAN is non-nil, scan non-activated groups as well."
              (gnus-agent-save-group-info
               method (gnus-group-real-name group) active))
            (gnus-group-update-group group nil t))
-       (if (eq (gnus-server-status (gnus-find-method-for-group group))
-               'denied)
-           (gnus-error 3 "Server previously determined to be down; not retrying")
-         (gnus-error 3 "%s error: %s" group (gnus-status-message group)))))
+       (gnus-error 3 "%s error: %s" group (gnus-status-message group))))
     (when beg
       (goto-char beg))
     (when gnus-goto-next-group-when-activating