Sean's Musings as a Service

Sean's Musings as a Service

VMWare server, Ubuntu, and Firefox sitting in a tree..

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  • tags: firefox, linux, ssl, ubuntu

Well if only they were getting along then I would not have this problem… did some upgrades and voila! I can’t get access to the vm web console, here are a few errors that I was seeing.

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[2010-07-24 14:46:44.704 'Proxysvc' 140416009636112 warning] SSL Handshake on client connection failed: SSL Exception:
[2010-07-24 14:46:52.709 'Proxysvc' 140416010967312 warning] SSL Handshake on client connection failed: SSL Exception: error:1
40D9115:SSL routines:SSL_GET_PREV_SESSION:session id context uninitialized
[2010-07-24 14:46:52.711 'Proxysvc' 140416011495696 warning] SSL Handshake on client connection failed: SSL Exception: error:1
40D9115:SSL routines:SSL_GET_PREV_SESSION:session id context uninitialized
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[2010-07-24 14:50:30.990 'Proxysvc' 140416010967312 warning] SSL Handshake on client connection failed: SSL Exception:
[2010-07-24 14:50:58.918 'Proxysvc Req00002' 140416010967312 warning] PendingServerStrm: client write-completion error: SSL Ex
ception: error:00000001:lib(0):func(0):reason(1)
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[2010-07-24 14:51:16.904 'Proxysvc' 140416010701072 warning] SSL Handshake on client connection failed: SSL Exception:
[2010-07-24 14:51:16.909 'Proxysvc' 140416073320720 warning] SSL Handshake on client connection failed: SSL Exception:
[2010-07-24 14:51:16.910 'Proxysvc' 140416009902352 warning] SSL Handshake on client connection failed: SSL Exception:
[2010-07-24 14:51:16.922 'Proxysvc' 140416010701072 warning] SSL Handshake on client connection failed: SSL Exception:
[2010-07-24 14:51:16.923 'Proxysvc' 140416073320720 warning] SSL Handshake on client connection failed: SSL Exception:
[2010-07-24 14:51:16.924 'Proxysvc' 140416011495696 warning] SSL Handshake on client connection failed: SSL Exception:
[2010-07-24 14:51:16.925 'Proxysvc' 140416012290320 warning] SSL Handshake on client connection failed: SSL Exception:
[2010-07-24 14:51:16.925 'Proxysvc' 140416009902352 warning] SSL Handshake on client connection failed: SSL Exception:
[2010-07-24 14:51:16.926 'Proxysvc' 140416011495696 warning] SSL Handshake on client connection failed: SSL Exception:
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And I am not alone, turns out it is Firefox 3.6, in the update the default setting for SSL 2 is off, easy fix, go to about:config and switch security.enable_ssl2_ to true.

Thank you other people for figuring out all my problems before I even have them :)

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