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Jason C

1:41 AM

ARGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

I hate computers.

Does anybody have any idea what to do next if stackoverflow.com/a/35824116/616460 doesn't work?

I don't have time for this shit.

bjb568

2:19 AM

Cry.

Smash the computer.

user202362

play with your cat for 5 minutes, then try again

Journeyman Geek

@That's actually not a bad idea

Jason C

2:36 AM

Tried that.

I've got a client, giving a demo of a product tomorrow afternoon, working great for months and decided to go on the fritz today, and I haven't been able to get jack shit done today because I've been stuck messing with git and now this SSL crap all day.

My tools are failing me.

In any case, if anybody's got any ideas:

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Q: Unable to correct sudden "server certificate verification failed"

I have the following problem: I have two machines here, a PC (Windows) and a Raspberry Pi (Raspbian). I have a git repo on gitlab.com, using an https URL. On the PC, I have been using and continue to use git (command line, git shell) with zero issues. On the Pi, today I can no longer access the...

I will buy you chocolates and have them shipped to your house.

My favorite chocolate covered pretzels could be yours.

Andrew T.

> Playing with my cat for 5 minutes and trying again - This does not seem to be working.

@Telkitty didn't work ^

user202362

I have plenty of chocolate laying around, I am not big fan of chocolates.

user202362

Lemme guess, you have not touched github for ages @jas

Jason C

I use github a decent amount. I didn't set up this repo.

This one's on gitlab.

@Telkitty The snack reward is negotiable assuming a reasonable price, lol.

user202362

are you the only one who has access to the certificate, could someone else generate a new one that you are not aware of?

bjb568

2:49 AM

@JasonC How does it feel to be the Bourgeoisie?

Jason C

I don't know anything about certificates. I just... typed the repo URL into the git command. I've never dealt with any certificates.

@bjb568 Freakin' amazing.

user202362

If I want reward, chat isn't the place, I am here to chill, looking for the next victim as an apex 1337 tr011 ... and accidentally help someone sometimes

bjb568

:3

Jason C

Everything I know I learned from my upper middle class white Republican parents and their surrounding bubble.

Andrew T.

@JasonC another possibility to try: stackoverflow.com/questions/21181231/… (including correcting the time?)

Jason C

2:52 AM

Oh oh lemme try

user315433

A possible explanation: the proletariat seized the means of production, such as SSL certificates.

Jason C

@AndrewT. Oh shit I think you're on to something here. Setting up ntp now. The system clock got reset.

Wait it's already enabled, wth...

Boom

Awesome

@AndrewT. THANKS. That was a ridiculous waste of time. And for such an obvious problem.

I wonder what happened, though. It's already got NTP configured, although it was using my router as the NTP server. I wonder if the router is on the fritz. Usually it works.

Oh well. Now back to solving vague unreproducible problems.

Journeyman Geek

3:37 AM

That's the best sort

Jason C

5:01 AM

Christ.

@JourneymanGeek This one turned out to be all sorts of stupid.

This project is this little Pi-based streaming music player. The problem? Turns out the client forgot to pay their Spotify bill.

And even better, it exposed a secondary problem where Spotify login failures grow the error logs and fill the SD card, making everything else fail in strange and wonderful ways. Which I really should've seen coming initially. Oops.

What a stupid day.

At least I figured it out.

Or I assume I figured it out. That's what happened on my dev hardware anyways. Now I have to go to their office tomorrow AM to check their device manually, since I can't push a software update to it, presumably because it's out of SD space.

To that, I say: (-.-) ̿ ̿'̿'\̵͇̿̿\з

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Journeyman Geek

5:17 AM

@JasonC I consider rpi's trouble

especially with the system running off an SD card

Jason C

Oh they suck.

Journeyman Geek

(if you're using n00bs and have the power budget, running it off USB is just so much more reliable)

Jason C

And SD based systems are a consistent nightmare. I have so many stories, from Gumstix to Beaglebones to RPis to Colibris.

Journeyman Geek

Well, which is why I run my htpc set up off my third brix (the other two died), off a hard drive that's died and come to life at least twice....

Jason C

The only success I've had is one Gumstix-based system we used I spent like 3 days of Linux bullshit setting it up to be completely read-only. Nightmare when their hardware changes and isn't compatible with the SD image any more, but at least that one turned out solid.

That happened after 39 out of 40 SD cards (all Kingston, only a rogue SanDisk survived) all completely failed after 3 months within 4 days of eachother. Gotta give them consistency, at least.

That was extra fun because those were buried under the floor inside some crap under some crap in some crap through some crap under some more crap in a shopping mall on the other side of the planet from me in Dubai.

Which, btw, was weirdly interesting. On those cards, I wrote a program just for shits to see if I could spot the corruption, I compared the SD cards to their original images and looked for long blocks of matches with one different byte (to try to filter out normal changes). In every case, on every card, the corrupt bytes had the 7th bit flipped. Filed away as Things I Don't Want To Understand.

Jason C

5:48 AM

Actually my favorite part of that whole thing was later, when I mentioned it in passing in a comment on unix.se, some guy tried to argue with me and tell me that it didn't actually happen. Because lol.

Journeyman Geek

Its not the SD cards on their own though. Every damned SD card I had in my pi works fine for other things

course I had a model A, which is uniquely ... turdy

Andrew T.

5:59 AM

back..

@JasonC good to know that solved the problem!

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9:00 AM

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9:19 AM

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9:53 AM

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