Secure Connections Fail

[sglafata]

Hello and thank you for a nice looking distribution!

I upgraded yesterday using the x86_64 DVD from Mandriva 2010.2 with some MIB and PLF RPMs installed. A few comments I'd like to make first is that towards the end of the installation of the packages, I received a failure of being able to upgrade some packages. I completed the installation and, luckily, agreed to add the upgrade repositories. I rebooted and went into safe mode, which didn't accomplish much as every time I tried to install a package, it would tell me that hald was not running. I rebooted again into full mode which, at that point, X failed and took me to a prompt. No problem and expected. I ran: urpmi --auto-update -v and the installation stated I had an additional 1215 packages to be installed. I continued installing packages, having to repeat the command a few times, in this way until there were no more packages to install. A final reboot and Mageia came to life!! Everything worked perfectly at this point. I access Mageia Control Center and upgraded or replaced MDV packages with MGA packages that were available, but did not get installed. Everything was beautiful up to this point.

Today, I decided to go online, as I do every morning, to check email and Facebook, etc. All of my secure connections failed. It tells me that all of their server certificates are invalid... Untrusted connections. It does appear that the rootcerts package was upgraded. I shouldn't have to add an exception for every site. What do I do now? File a bug report in Bugzilla?

[sglafata]

I forgot to mention that I have tested every revision since Mageia came out in VirtualBox and I did not have this problem. Of course, in VirtualBox, it was a new installation. So which package is causing the problem?

[sglafata]

I still haven't solved this. I have gone through and installed additional software comparing it to my list of packages from my previous Mandriva 2010.2 lists. Everything else appears to be working except this. Firefox fails on all https connections. Other searches referred to date and time being wrong. I've verified my date and time, and it is correct! Is there anybody out there who can suggest anything else? I don't want to have to add exceptions for every single secure site I visit (which includes logging into websites.... Mageia forum and bugzilla included).

[sglafata]

"The error sec_error_unknown_issuer is usually caused because the intermediate SSL has not been installed." How do I know if this has happened? Does Mageia package this in their 'rootcerts' or 'rootcerts_java' packages?

[sglafata]

Saved all my stuff and completely wiped the drive, and reinstalled. Now everything works. Sooooo..... my experience with the upgrade from Mandriva 2010.2 to Mageia 1 was partially success. Everything worked except Firefox as I would get errors when I'd go to a HTTPS connection. I'm sure I could have fixed it myself if I knew which package or file it was that was causing the problem, but too late for that now.

[isadora]

Thanks for your updates sglafata.

Sorry you had to wait for any reply, but eventually you found out yourself.
I have linked this topic to my favorites, in case in future someone else runs into the same issue.

And yes of course, a very warm welcome to the Mageia-forum!!!!

[doktor5000]

Perhaps some of the MIB packages were newer than what is contained in Mageia 1, as they are using quite strange versioning with really high release numbers like 69, f.ex. Firefox or NSS or maybe even rootcerts itself. But without logs or a list of packages (you could have run rpm -qa | grep mib to determine packages which need custom treatment) only my crystal ball can tell

But you see: a fresh install is always cleaner