Pkgman update "General system error"

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#1

When I tried updating Haiku today pkgman fails refreshing repositories with a “General system error” message.

~> pkgman update 
Refreshing repository "Haiku" failed  0%: General system error
Refreshing repository "HaikuPorts" failed  0%: General system error
Nothing to do.

I tried to run this command with --debug 10, but it does not provide more details on the refresh step.

Currently my system is at revision hrev53416 (x86_64). Network is up. Any idea what could be causing this and how this can be fixed?

#2

Noticed something: WebPositive is complaining about not being able to verify SSL certificates. Maybe this is also the root cause for the update failure, maybe something broken with openssl?

Would there be a way to manually update to latest revision? Or maybe a mirror that is available without https? Currently I use the default repositories:

https://eu.hpkg.haiku-os.org/haiku/master/x86_64/current
https://eu.hpkg.haiku-os.org/haikuports/master/x86_64/current

#3

If your problems is expired root certificates, you should be able to manually download and update the ca_root_certificates package.

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#4

Also check your clock settings. SSL errors can happen due to wrong time.

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#5

Indeed it was the time, I should have thought about this :smiley: Thanks both of your for your help.

#6

It would be nice if pkgman could be smart enough to report such problems instead of this general error.

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#7

There’s an open ticket somewhere about it, yes. But more significantly, we already have a “synchronize clock on network up” feature. So is that not working in this case?

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#8

“Synchronize at boot” is active, I am not sure why this failed. What actually could have caused this is that I have Haiku running in a VM. And around of the time of last update end of August I actually did not power it down but only saved the VM state because I was in the middle of some work I did not want to loose.

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#9

Hi all, I am trying to build the haiku code. I am following the instructions given here: https://github.com/haiku/haiku/blob/master/ReadMe.Compiling.md.
I have configured Haiku successfully and whenever I hit the command jam, I see the following error after some time:
ERROR: cannot verify eu.hpkg.haiku-os.org's certificate, issued by ‘CN=R3,O=Let's Encrypt,C=US’:
Unable to locally verify the issuer's authority.
To connect to eu.hpkg.haiku-os.org insecurely, use –no-check-certificate’.`

source="generated/objects/haiku/x86_64/packaging/repositories/HaikuPorts-checksum"
wget --retry-connrefused --timeout 30 -O "generated/download/gcc_syslibs_devel-8.3.0_2019_05_24-7-x86_64.hpkg" https://eu.hpkg.haiku-os.org/haikuports/master/build-packages/cat $source/packages/gcc_syslibs_devel-8.3.0_2019_05_24-7-x86_64.hpkg || exit 1
touch "generated/download/gcc_syslibs_devel-8.3.0_2019_05_24-7-x86_64.hpkg"

...failed DownloadLocatedFile1 generated/download/gcc_syslibs_devel-8.3.0_2019_05_24-7-x86_64.hpkg ... ...removing generated/download/gcc_syslibs_devel-8.3.0_2019_05_24-7-x86_64.hpkg

BUILD FAILURE:
...failed updating 1 target(s)...
...skipped 7 target(s)...
...updated 6 target(s)...

I have tried to run the commands given here https://www.haiku-os.org/guides/building/jam still it shows the same error.
Can anyone tell me what i may be doing wrong.
Thank you!