Yum Error

[Jeremy Moles]

On Tue, 2011-11-15 at 13:54 -0800, Joel Gomberg wrote:
> 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

This has been working for me for now as well; looking forward to being
able to turn it back on, however. :)

> -- 
> Joel