Yum certification error

[jonathan2022]

I just installed Rock Linux 8.4 and now I get yum certificate error

Rocky Linux 8 - AppStream 0.0 B/s | 0 B 00:00
Errors during downloading metadata for repository ‘appstream’:

• Curl error (60): Peer certificate cannot be authenticated with given CA certificates for https://mirrors.rockylinux.org/mirrorlist?arch=x86_64&repo=AppStream-8 [SSL certificate problem: certificate is not yet valid]
  Error: Failed to download metadata for repo ‘appstream’: Cannot prepare internal mirrorlist: Curl error (60): Peer certificate cannot be authenticated with given CA certificates for https://mirrors.rockylinux.org/mirrorlist?arch=x86_64&repo=AppStream-8 [SSL certificate problem: certificate is not yet valid]
  [root@localhost ~]#

So I ran “update-crypto-policies --show” and it return “DEFAULT”

[sweh]

Is your local clock set correctly? It sounds like it’s set sometime in the past. The certificate on mirrors.rocklylinux.org starts on Sunday, February 20, 2022 at 6:44:19 PM; if your clock is before then then it’ll think the cert is valid at some point in the future but not “now”.

[jonathan2022]

Yeah, thanks for pointing out the obvious… I feel like an idiot…
I’ve been burnt on the same issue before, when I bring up a new system that never booted before… rule number 1, always set the clock! Thanks again!! Working great now!!

[gerry666uk]

If you used the GUI installer, you can enable networking, and then enable network time within the intaller.