Can't contact EAH Servers - Peer Certificate Cannot be Authenticated...

Oliver Behnke
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For the record: I tracked

For the record: I tracked this down to at least two bug reports for OpenSSL, which confirm that a fix is available as of v1.0.2:

https://rt.openssl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=3637
https://rt.openssl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=3621

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We're also pursuing to get this fixed in Debian Jessie itself...

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Thank you all for your

Thank you all for your attention to this. I really appreciate the diagnosis. Unfortunately, even if they fix it in Jessie, it will likely be a while before it will roll in to Raspbian Jessie.

I was getting ready to do a series of videos on how to build your own EAH Boinc Clusters using the Pi 2 and Pi Zero. I had started to do this in October, back when I was following claggy's instructions for building boinc on Wheezy. When Jessie came out, I thought that would be awesome because it was so much easier to apt-get install boinc-client than compiling software, thus making it more accessible to people. It looks like I could still do that if people use stock jessie, but now I have to teach them to not upgrade ca-certificates or openssl! Maybe I can try to do an image on stretch, but I have to figureo ut how to get a working stretch system myself first (I know more than most at Linux, but still have a lot to learn, especially when it comes to troubleshooting).

The Pi Zero is very interesting because while it takes twice as long / core, the total cost of ownership is significantly less than the Pi 2. The micro sd card and a usb cable are a wash, as they are needed for each platform. A USB hub and some way for your master Zero to get to the internet is all that's needed to build a cluster that scales rather handily thanks to the USB Ethernet Gadget mode (http://pi.gbaman.info/?p=699. My ultimate goal is to get as many Pi Zeros online as possible while also adding a Pi 2 node to my Pi 2 cluster as often as I can. You can see the original Pi Zero prototype cluster here: https://twitter.com/KF7IJZ/status/689206463970041857

So thanks again for the work. Is there anything I can track on another website to see the status of these fixes? Should I try to inform the Raspbian people? Is there anything else I can do to help?

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RE: Thank you all for your

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Thank you all for your attention to this. I really appreciate the diagnosis. Unfortunately, even if they fix it in Jessie, it will likely be a while before it will roll in to Raspbian Jessie.


I don't know how the Raspbian and Debian repositories are interconnected. If you know of a way to speed this up please let me know. The ca-certificates package was migrated rather quickly so I hope that a new version that is maybe flagged urgent is quicker.

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I was getting ready to do a series of videos on how to build your own EAH Boinc Clusters using the Pi 2 and Pi Zero. I had started to do this in October, back when I was following claggy's instructions for building boinc on Wheezy. When Jessie came out, I thought that would be awesome because it was so much easier to apt-get install boinc-client than compiling software, thus making it more accessible to people. It looks like I could still do that if people use stock jessie, but now I have to teach them to not upgrade ca-certificates or openssl! Maybe I can try to do an image on stretch, but I have to figureo ut how to get a working stretch system myself first (I know more than most at Linux, but still have a lot to learn, especially when it comes to troubleshooting).


I added a rebuild of BRP for Stretch on armhf to my todolist. I don't have an ETA, but I'm working on getting this libc problem solved that was mentioned earlier.

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So thanks again for the work. Is there anything I can track on another website to see the status of these fixes? Should I try to inform the Raspbian people? Is there anything else I can do to help?


The most relevant Debian bugs are these two: 812708 and 812488. I think Raspbian just takes the package from Debian so we have to make them aware when there is a new version (hopefully).

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Raspbian Bug Here - Please go

Raspbian Bug Here - Please go up vote! https://bugs.launchpad.net/raspbian/+bug/1538821

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RE: Edit: Here is what I

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Edit: Here is what I did to get the missing certificate back. Please make sure you have the package downloaded before purging!

$ wget http://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian/20141020T103752Z/pool/main/c/ca-certificates/ca-certificates_20141019_all.deb
$ sudo dpkg --purge --force-depends ca-certificates
$ sudo dpkg -i ca-certificates_20141019_all.deb

This patch worked for me. (I was unable to attach the project)

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Hi Brian, i had written your

Hi Brian,
i had written your three lines as bash script to get back to the old certificate.
But because I run unattended-upgrades I have to run it every second day.

Is there an option to keep the right certificate?

And how do I get notice when the new certificate which work correct is published?

regards
Veit

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RE: Is there an option to

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Is there an option to keep the right certificate?

And how do I get notice when the new certificate which work correct is published?


Yes there is: Attention when updating Debian stable (Jessie)

I will probably announce the resolution in the same technical news item. So far it seems there is no consensus on what to do among the Debian maintainers involved.

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Raspbian updated the Jessie

Raspbian updated the Jessie image to 20160209 last week, so the image now comes with the bad ca-certificates package. New users attempting to run boinc must now downgrade as course of business or use an archive of Jessie 20151121.

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Hi, i have stopped

Hi,

i have stopped updating the certificates with

echo ca-certificates hold | dpkg --set-selections

Will we be noticed when the failure is fixed?

regards
Veit

Christian Beer
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I will update the technical

I will update the technical News Item as soon as the Debian maintainers fixed it. There is nothing we can do about the issue apart from nagging them about it.

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