Bug 1286328

Summary: [UX] Installer message could be much more useful
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Ian Romanick <idr>
Component: dnfAssignee: rpm-software-management
Status: CLOSED EOL QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Priority: low    
Version: 23CC: dennis, g.kaviyarasu, jonathan, jsilhan, kevin, mluscon, packaging-team-maint, pnemade, vanmeeuwen+fedora, vmukhame
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Image showing non-useful error message none

Description Ian Romanick 2015-11-28 04:31:57 UTC
Created attachment 1099812 [details]
Image showing non-useful error message

Description of problem:

While performing a netinstall of F23, I encountered an error message that the mirror.fedora.com CA certificates had expired.  This was, of course, false.  The real problem was that after resetting the CMOS, I had not set the system date.  The system thought it was 1/1/2006, and that somehow confused the expiration check... presumably because the current date is before the date the certificate was issued.

Unfortunately I was not able to debug this on my own.  I needed help from the folks on #fedora.  If the error message had told me the current date and the valid date range of the certificate, the problem would have been obvious, and I could have solved it trivially.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Set CMOS date to 1/1/2006
2. Try to netinstall F23.
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Comment 1 Kevin Fenzi 2015-11-28 05:29:46 UTC
Moving to anaconda (installer) folks.

Comment 2 Fedora Admin XMLRPC Client 2016-07-08 09:34:47 UTC
This package has changed ownership in the Fedora Package Database.  Reassigning to the new owner of this component.

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