Yum Error

[Joel Gomberg]

On 11/14/2011 12:50 PM, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> On Mon, 14 Nov 2011 11:55:39 -0800, JG (Joel) wrote:
>
>> I've been getting the following error when running yum update today:
>>
>> Could not get metalink
>> https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=updates-released-f16&arch=x86_64
>> error was
>> 14: Peer cert cannot be verified or peer cert invalid
>> Could not get metalink
>> https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=updates-testing-f16&arch=x86_64
>> error was
>> 14: Peer cert cannot be verified or peer cert invalid
>>
>> Can someone explain these messages or, better yet, tell me what to do about them?
>>
>
> If you run with updates-testing enabled, pay extra attention to any threads
> about test-updates and comments on test-updates in the Fedora Updates System.
> There has been a faulty nss update:
>    https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2011-15612
> You may need to downgrade those packages temporarily.

That could be the cause.  The workaround is:

sudo yum update --setopt=sslverify=false

-- 
Joel