On Tue, Sep 25, 2018 at 11:51:39AM +0100, Hazel Russman wrote:
>
> I just tried to register for one of the dev lists and Firefox played up
> because the link isn't secure. So I tried again with https:// and
> couldn't get a connection. What do I need to do?
>
Hi Hazel,
I've only just got firefox installed on my latest build (and it
seems to have been my worst build in ages, for various reasons), so
I wan't able to look at this until now.
I'm using a firefox-63 beta version (usually, when things differ the
beta version decides that certificate chains are broken - but all
seems good at the moment).
Obviously I'm already subscribed to both -dev lists, but I went to
'lists.linuxfromscratch.org' (no protocol specified), found a list
which I ought to have subscribed to, and sent the request. Got the
response, pasted the URL into firefox. No problem with certs.
So, first question: which version of firefox ?
Second question: can you https:// to google ?
One of the early problems in my current build was that I'd overlooked
the need for p11-kit when I install ca-certs before the first boot.
I'd thought about my later reinstall of certs after nss, but
overlooked that I install them earlier - got as far as trying to
install Sphinx (I keep hoping to retry the kernel docs) and failing
when it went to talk to PyPi for something. Tried to google from
links, http worked but https failed.
The certs had apparently ended ok, but in fact did nothing because
/usr/bin/trust was not present. With Python2 moved ahead of the
certs, followed by six, libtasn1, p11-kit I think my future builds
will be ok for that.
I should mention that on my 8.3 build on this machine I lost access
to sourceforge and related sites for similar certificate errors
after one firefox update, although other machines were fine.
Updating firefox to 62.0.2 (and reinstalling the certs as part of my
update) solved that. But overall, like the builds of rust and
firefox, cert handling in firefox seems to go out to lunch from time to time.
Good luck!
ĸen
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