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MountainX

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Registered: 2016-02-08

Posts: 371

[SOLVED] failed retrieving core.db-error setting certificate location

I have upgraded several Arch machines using the steps at the link below and I have not had any issues... until today

https://www.archlinux.org/news/ca-certi … ervention/

Today I upgraded a computer that had been offline for several months. I used these steps (from the link above):

# pacman -Syuw                           # download packages
# rm /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt  # remove conflicting file
# pacman -Su                             # perform upgrade

However, today I got a lot of error messages. The process did seem to complete and after it finished I ran:

pacman -Syyu

Here's the result of that. These are the same error messages I received in the earlier step, just more concise / not repeated endlessly.

:: Synchronizing package databases...
error: failed retrieving file 'core.db' from mirrors.kernel.org : error setting certificate verify locations:
  CAfile: /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt
  CApath: none
error: failed retrieving file 'core.db' from arch.localmsp.org : error setting certificate verify locations:
  CAfile: /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt
  CApath: none
error: failed retrieving file 'core.db' from lug.mtu.edu : error setting certificate verify locations:
  CAfile: /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt
  CApath: none
 core                                                                                          124.9 KiB  1041K/s 00:00 [########################################################################] 100%
error: failed retrieving file 'extra.db' from mirrors.kernel.org : error setting certificate verify locations:
  CAfile: /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt
  CApath: none
error: failed retrieving file 'extra.db' from arch.localmsp.org : error setting certificate verify locations:
  CAfile: /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt
  CApath: none
error: failed retrieving file 'extra.db' from lug.mtu.edu : error setting certificate verify locations:
  CAfile: /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt
  CApath: none
 extra                                                                                        1665.3 KiB  5.81M/s 00:00 [########################################################################] 100%
error: failed retrieving file 'community.db' from mirrors.kernel.org : error setting certificate verify locations:
  CAfile: /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt
  CApath: none
error: failed retrieving file 'community.db' from arch.localmsp.org : error setting certificate verify locations:
  CAfile: /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt
  CApath: none
error: failed retrieving file 'community.db' from lug.mtu.edu : error setting certificate verify locations:
  CAfile: /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt
  CApath: none
 community                                                                                       3.9 MiB  7.80M/s 00:01 [########################################################################] 100%
 

How do I resolve this?

Last edited by MountainX (2017-07-07 01:36:00)

Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

Posts: 13,729

Re: [SOLVED] failed retrieving core.db-error setting certificate location

Reinstall all of the ca-certificates packages from your cache.

Edit to clarify: I do not mean to downgrade, I mean to reinstall the same versions you currently have installed.

Last edited by Scimmia (2017-07-06 01:20:46)

MountainX

Member

Registered: 2016-02-08

Posts: 371

Re: [SOLVED] failed retrieving core.db-error setting certificate location

Reinstall all of the ca-certificates packages from your cache.

Edit to clarify: I do not mean to downgrade, I mean to reinstall the same versions you currently have installed.

UPDATE: that resolved it. Thanks

Last edited by MountainX (2017-07-06 01:31:11)

headkase

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Registered: 2011-12-06

Posts: 2,006

Re: [SOLVED] failed retrieving core.db-error setting certificate location

Reinstall all of the ca-certificates packages from your cache.

Edit to clarify: I do not mean to downgrade, I mean to reinstall the same versions you currently have installed.

UPDATE: that resolved it. Thanks

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