Invalid Certificate

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Can anyone help shed light on this error... this happened after adding a node to the cluster. I can access the master, but when I try to pull up the gui for the node firefox displays this. And Google Chrome just spins its wheels and times out... So I gather there a problem with the certificate any one know how to resolve it? Master is fine, error comes up on the slave node.

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You have received an invalid certificate. Please contact the server administrator or email correspondent and give them the following information:

Your certificate contains the same serial number as another certificate issued by the certificate authority. Please get a new certificate containing a unique serial number.

(Error code: sec_error_reused_issuer_and_serial)
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Both master and slave are:
pveversion -v
pve-manager: 1.9-26 (pve-manager/1.9/6567)
running kernel: 2.6.32-6-pve
proxmox-ve-2.6.32: 1.9-55+ovzfix-1
pve-kernel-2.6.32-6-pve: 2.6.32-55+ovzfix-1
qemu-server: 1.1-32
pve-firmware: 1.0-14
libpve-storage-perl: 1.0-19
vncterm: 0.9-2
vzctl: 3.0.29-3pve1
vzdump: 1.2-16
vzprocps: 2.0.11-2
vzquota: 3.0.11-1
pve-qemu-kvm: 0.15.0-2
ksm-control-daemon: 1.0-6


Cheers!
 
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Looks like the two nodes somehow have identical serial numbers... by deleting 'cert8.db' in the Firefox Profile folder I am able to pull up the salve node, but now, of course, I am getting the same error on the master. This doesn't seam right, shouldn't that cert be generated during install and have a random serial? These nodes were deployed and install months apart... how could they end up with the same serial number? or I am missing the real issue altogether?

Any help appreciated.
 
Hi,

I got the same problem and this is how I fixed it :

From the cluster node :

# create a new certificate with a new serial number
pvecert --force
# restart apache (because apparently it keeps the certificate in its cache)
/etc/init.d/apache2 restart

In Firefox, I then removed all the existing certificates related to both the cluster master and the cluster node.

Cheers,
Hakim
 
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Thank you, that worked perfectly. I also had to again delete 'cert8.db' in Firefox before it woke up. But the fix took immediate affect in any browser without the certs cached.
 

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