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update-ca-certificates fails to complete due to existing /var/lib/ca-certificates/ca-bundle.pem.tmp

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Environment

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12
Public Cloud

Situation

When running update-ca-certificates or registercloudguest (which runs update-ca-certificates), they will fail to complete due to an existing file: 

/var/lib/ca-certificates/ca-bundle.pem.tmp

Resolution

Delete /var/lib/ca-certificates/ca-bundle.pem.tmp:
rm /var/lib/ca-certificates/ca-bundle.pem.tmp

Cause

The issue is currently in development to determine the root cause.

Additional Information

This bug may cause PAYG registration failures.

TLS certificates for the Public Cloud RMTs (update servers) were updated by the Public Cloud team between March and September 2023.

Update server certificates are added to a SLES instance's list of trusted certificates, ca-bundle.pem, programmatically via the registercloudguest script.

This bug causes the update-ca-certificate call made by registercloudguest to fail.  As a result, the new certificate is not added to ca-bundle.pem,

One can prove this issue on an impacted workload by running the following command where IP_ADDRESS is the IP of the RMT (update) server:
# openssl s_client -connect IP_ADDRESS:443 </dev/null 2>/dev/null |grep -i verif
    Verify return code: 21 (unable to verify the first certificate)

This can be resolved by removing the ca-bundle.pem.tmp and running registercloudguest --force-new again.

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  • Document ID:000021252
  • Creation Date: 08-Nov-2023
  • Modified Date:19-Dec-2023
    • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
    • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications

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