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Ciade

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Registered: 2020-01-26

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Virtualbox: Guest Additions fails to download due to certificate error

So I've recently done a fresh re-install of Arch to move from one SSD to another larger SSD and from sharing a SSD with windows to each OS being installed on a separate SSD. Everything so far is working fine, but I've installed virtualbox (virtualbox-host-modules-arch) enabled the required kernel modules (modprobe vboxdrv) and setup a fresh Xubunu virtual machine which I'll be using as a development environment. However when I try to get virtualbox to download the GuestAdditions ISO image it throws an error. I'm aware that I can get guest additions via pacman by installing virtualbox-guest-iso, but this is a work around I'd rather resolve the issue with virtual box.

So in the logs for virtualbox, I can see that when it tries to download the ISO image it gets the following error:

04:01:12.704143 refreshCertificates/#1: Certificate '/etc/ca-certificates/extracted/objsign-ca-bundle.pem' is empty
04:01:12.715857 refreshCertificates/#3: Found 0/339 SSL certs we/you trust (previously 0/339).

I've checked the file on the drive and it is indeed empty, also luckily I still have my old Arch install accessible and working on the original SSD so I booted that up launched virtualbox and tried to download the guest additions ISO there and it successfully downloads the ISO file, however it reports this in the logs:

00:00:06.632187 refreshCertificates/#1: Certificate '/etc/ca-certificates/extracted/objsign-ca-bundle.pem' is empty
00:00:06.635426 refreshCertificates/#3: Found 1/340 SSL certs we/you trust (previously 1/324).

On my new install pacman is working fine, date and time are all correct and I'm not seeing certificate errors anywhere else, just seems to be with virtualbox, I've tried running the "update-ca-trust" command to see if that fixes anything but still have the same issue after. Does anyone here know why I seem to have no trusted certificate on my new install for virtualbox?