Cannot connect to gmail - "invalid certificate" [SOLVED]

spektre · 2009-07-20 15:54:41

Hi!
When I try to connect to gmail I get a "Secure Connection Failed" error:

An error occurred during a connection to www.google.com.

You have received an invalid certificate.  Please contact the server administrator or email correspondent and give them the following information:

Your certificate contains the same serial number as another certificate issued by the certificate authority.  Please get a new certificate containing a unique serial number.

(Error code: sec_error_reused_issuer_and_serial)

I have no idea what caused this and can't find anything about it. It's pretty annoying as my check-new-mail script says I got 6 new mails :S

Anyone got a clue?

Edit: I'm using Firefox 3.5, or "Shiretoko". Seems like it came with the upgrade somehow, but it works on other machines running the same version.

Last edited by spektre (2009-07-22 08:29:17)

ckristi · 2009-07-20 21:22:22

Is your computer date alright? Check to see if your current date is correctly set.

spektre · 2009-07-21 03:26:02

Yup, running openntpd.

$ date
Tue Jul 21 05:28:07 CEST 2009

ckristi · 2009-07-21 11:23:02

Go to Edit->Preferences->Advanced->Encryption->View certificates, delete the Google certificate and try again. I hope this solves it.

spektre · 2009-07-21 15:08:58

I had already deleted the google certificate without getting further, but now I deleted cert8.db and key3.db under ~/.mozilla/<my profile folder>/ because I was getting a bit frustrated
Now it works! It must've used a certificate with another name that got blasted when I did a full purge.

Thanks anyway, I don't think I would've tried it if you hadn't posted!

ckristi · 2009-07-21 20:43:29

Glad to be indirrectly helpful.

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Cannot connect to gmail - "invalid certificate" [SOLVED]

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Re: Cannot connect to gmail - "invalid certificate" [SOLVED]

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Re: Cannot connect to gmail - "invalid certificate" [SOLVED]

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Re: Cannot connect to gmail - "invalid certificate" [SOLVED]

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Re: Cannot connect to gmail - "invalid certificate" [SOLVED]

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Re: Cannot connect to gmail - "invalid certificate" [SOLVED]

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