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archietux

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Registered: 2019-05-25

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[solved] SSL certificate problem: certificate has expired

Hello fellow users!

Upon updating my system pacman gives me the following errors:

:: Synchronising package databases...
error: failed retrieving file 'core.db' from archlinux.cu.be : SSL certificate problem: certificate has expired
 core is up to date
error: failed retrieving file 'extra.db' from archlinux.cu.be : SSL certificate problem: certificate has expired
 extra is up to date
error: failed retrieving file 'community.db' from archlinux.cu.be : SSL certificate problem: certificate has expired
 community is up to date
error: failed retrieving file 'multilib.db' from archlinux.cu.be : SSL certificate problem: certificate has expired
 multilib is up to date
:: Starting full system upgrade...
 there is nothing to do

As can be seen it tells me that the SSL certificates have expired, however it still seems to synchronize with the mirrors and earlier also let me download upgrades.
As I'm fairly new to Arch I would very much appreciate some help.
Thank you!

Last edited by archietux (2019-05-25 09:54:21)

Slithery

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Re: [solved] SSL certificate problem: certificate has expired

Switch your mirror to one which isn't broken.

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archietux

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Re: [solved] SSL certificate problem: certificate has expired

Well thanks. Apparently there was a misconception on my part how the mirrorlist works. Didn't realize my system only pulls from the top one.

WorMzy

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Re: [solved] SSL certificate problem: certificate has expired

Please remember to mark your thread as solved by editing the first post and amending the topic title.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Co … ow_to_post

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progandy

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Re: [solved] SSL certificate problem: certificate has expired

Well thanks. Apparently there was a misconception on my part how the mirrorlist works. Didn't realize my system only pulls from the top one.

It doesn't just pull from the top one. If it encounters an error, then it tries the next mirror in the list. After your SSL error, pacman used the second mirror, that is why your updates were still working. Since pacman doesn't remember bad mirrors, it does that for each and every file that is in the download queue.

Last edited by progandy (2019-05-25 10:03:00)

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