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padowi

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From: Göteborg, Sweden

Registered: 2010-09-24

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[SOLVED] SSL problems since upgrading this weekend

Hi

I upgraded Arch this weekend (but since I didn't reboot, it might have been an upgrade after that, in any case, some time between September the 24th and today) and it messed up my system

Symptoms:
* Pidgin can't connect to any of my accounts (msn, jabber)
* Firefox can't connect to any site over https (which made it a bit hard to come onto both bbs. and bugs.archlinux.org )
* Thunderbird can't fetch emails from servers I'm connecting securely towards

From this I gather SSL has been messed up. My searches turned up nothing I could use, so I hope someone here will be able to help me.

SSH works, so does browsing non-https pages, so there doesn't seem to be any problems with networking, right?

So my question, then, is: What do I need to provide in terms of data, for anyone to be able to start figuring out what has gone wrong?

SOLVED:
The issue ended up not being a problem with archlinux at all.

Earlier I had made a port-forward in the router (nowhere even remotely near port 443), but as I could access stuff on port 443 from other machines in the network I made the erroneous assumption that the router was working as intended.

Next time I will know better.

Thank you karol for your time
/Patrik

Last edited by padowi (2010-10-04 09:29:20)

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: [SOLVED] SSL problems since upgrading this weekend

Were there any pacman warning messages during / after install? Anything interesting in the logs? How's you openssl package doing, is it 100% OK (all files present etc.)?

padowi

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From: Göteborg, Sweden

Registered: 2010-09-24

Posts: 4

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Re: [SOLVED] SSL problems since upgrading this weekend

Hi

No warning messages that I noticed.

/var/log/pacman.log didn't contain anything suggesting failure. Are there any other files I should pay attention to?

According to pacman -Qk openssl no files are missing.
For a moment I suspected the nss package, since it has been upgraded within the relevant time window, however, after having downgraded that package and rebooted, still no luck

Any other suggestions? Any more info I can give?

Thank you for your time
/Patrik