Strangely enough it worked now.

Sorry for bothering. I first asked on IRC and was asked to report to the developers.

Thanks for all your efforts,
Stephan Hradek


Am 29.09.2021 um 17:20 schrieb Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>:

Stephan Hradek <stephan.hradek@eco.de> 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?