curl: (60) SSL certificate problem: unable to get local issuer certificate

[scaryguy]

Hi there...

Ubuntu 13.04 here.

I'm trying to install RVM using your script but I get this error:

scaryguy@scary:~$ \curl -L https://get.rvm.io | bash -s stable  
% Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100   184  100   184    0     0     11      0  0:00:16  0:00:16 --:--:--   176
  0     0    0     0    0     0      0      0 --:--:--  0:00:26 --:--:--     0
curl: (60) SSL certificate problem: unable to get local issuer certificate
More details here: http://curl.haxx.se/docs/sslcerts.html

curl performs SSL certificate verification by default, using a "bundle"
 of Certificate Authority (CA) public keys (CA certs). If the default
 bundle file isn't adequate, you can specify an alternate file
 using the --cacert option.
If this HTTPS server uses a certificate signed by a CA represented in
 the bundle, the certificate verification probably failed due to a
 problem with the certificate (it might be expired, or the name might
 not match the domain name in the URL).
If you'd like to turn off curl's verification of the certificate, use
 the -k (or --insecure) option.

I googled a lot. I even found your support page about it but whenever I try to use sudo apt-get install ca-certificates , it says that's already installed.

I don't want to use -k options since I heard that this issue can affect connection between rubygems.org too.

[mpapis]

start with running:

\curl -L https://get.rvm.io | bash -s head --debug

it will provide more details about the installation process and we can continue fixing from there

[scaryguy]

Hi, sorry for late response.

I installed RVM but I even don't remember how I did it... I tried hundreds of ways to do it... But now whenever I try to get stable I get this:

scaryguy@ubuntu:~/Sites/pop10haber$ rvm get stable --debug
Running(6): curl --fail --location --max-redirs 10 https://get.rvm.io
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100   184  100   184    0     0      7      0  0:00:26  0:00:23  0:00:03   210
100   184  100   184    0     0      4      0  0:00:46  0:00:45  0:00:01     4curl: (60) SSL certificate problem, verify that the CA cert is OK. Details:
error:14090086:SSL routines:SSL3_GET_SERVER_CERTIFICATE:certificate verify failed
More details here: http://curl.haxx.se/docs/sslcerts.html

curl performs SSL certificate verification by default, using a "bundle"
 of Certificate Authority (CA) public keys (CA certs). If the default
 bundle file isn't adequate, you can specify an alternate file
 using the --cacert option.
If this HTTPS server uses a certificate signed by a CA represented in
 the bundle, the certificate verification probably failed due to a
 problem with the certificate (it might be expired, or the name might
 not match the domain name in the URL).
If you'd like to turn off curl's verification of the certificate, use
 the -k (or --insecure) option.
RVM reloaded!
__rvm_rm_rf already gone: /home/scaryguy/.rvm/tmp/6843*

I opened a question at Stack Over Flow too...
I can't do anything because of this SSL/CA Certificate stuff... Please help :(

[scaryguy]

Well okay, THANKS GOD I think I've figured it out!

All I have to do is downloading http://curl.haxx.se/ca/cacert.pem to my home directroy and adding this line :

export CURL_CA_BUNDLE="/home/scaryguy/cacert.pem" .

Now I can update RVM!

I'm not able to use my AWS gem to upload pictures yet but... Well.. I guess I'm close!

[mpapis]

this kind of things should not happen on standard system kept up to date, are you sure you trieed updating system before running this?

[scaryguy]

If you mean sudo apt-get update yes I did it. I have Ubuntu 12.04 LTS on VMWare Player.

I have been trying to install Ubuntu as a regular operating system since a week... No way. Always I was gone on a problem... I tried both 12.04 and 13.04 and each time I had a different problem. But This CA Bundle problem always happened.

[mpapis]

@rys does it make any sense to you - the ca-certificates is installed and system was up to date with sudo apt-get update - how would it be possible that the certificates are still not available?

@scaryguy are you sure you did no manual non standard steps? (like installing another copy of curl). did you follow any tutorials to set up the system?

[scaryguy]

All I did was ordinarily installing curl via sudo apt-get install curl and tryin to run your installation script.

Once I read that cURL does not include ca-certificates anymore but no idea about the which timeframe was mentioned.

[mpapis]

the curl you install via apt-get should use certificates provided by ca-certificates package, I never had problems with it earlier so I'm puzzled how you were able to trigger that problem.

[salsa-dev]

To whom it may concern (POSSIBLE SOLUTION):
I'm on new installation of Debian (Jessie) trying to install rvm with curl and hit the error described here. Tried every possible solution found on web but nothing was of any help. It is already late and I check time with "date" to go sleep. Here we are!!!! The date is 13 years behind!!!!!!!! Syncing with ntp resolved an issue. So, dear admin, please check the time on your server!