This bug is unreproducible for me.
However, I have seen it before, and it was because w3 was not available
(it's required for ssl). Do you have the w3-el-e21 package installed?
Perhaps a wishlist bug should be filed upstream to improve the ssl
failure diagnostics, and/or emacs21 should recommend w3-el-21.
I had the same problem and missing w3 was indeed the answer for me.
However it took me quite a long time to discover this - indeed the penny
only dropped when my googling led me to this particular bug.
Now that I know what to look for I see that the gnus Info docs do
mention the dependency in some of the places where you might need
ssl.el, but not all of them. For instance I was editing mail-sources
and therefore looking at s6.3.4.1 "Mail Source Specifiers" which does
not mention it. Mentioning it this section would be a quick route to
improvement.
ttfn/rjk
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