[Python-Dev] bugs.python.org access problems

Brett Cannon brett at python.org
Sat Feb 11 14:09:11 EST 2017


I emailed the infrastructure team and Mark Mangoba replied back saying it's
because the SSL cert is from StartCom which is in the process of being
distrusted. They should have a new cert hopefully sometime today.

On Sat, 11 Feb 2017 at 11:01 Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> wrote:

> On Fri, 10 Feb 2017 at 16:06 Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 10 Feb 2017 16:15:46 -0500
> Terry Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> wrote:
>
> > Today I have been getting the following  for about 1/3 of access
> > attempts (with Firefox).
> > '''
> > Secure Connection Failed
> >
> > An error occurred during a connection to bugs.python.org. A PKCS #11
> > module returned CKR_DEVICE_ERROR, indicating that a problem has occurred
> > with the token or slot. Error code: SEC_ERROR_PKCS11_DEVICE_ERROR
> >
> >      The page you are trying to view cannot be shown because the
> > authenticity of the received data could not be verified.
> >      Please contact the website owners to inform them of this problem.
> >
> > [Try Again]
> > '''
> > A couple of retries usually work, but I don't remember such repeated
> > errors before.  Anyone else having a similar problem?
>
> Yes, I do.
>
>
> I have had a similar issue on Chrome but it seems to reload itself and
> move on from it too fast to read the error page. GitHub has also been
> complaining on their side about it. I mentioned it to Ezio yesterday during
> the migration but he said he didn't see anything odd on the
> bugs.python.org side.
>
> I'll shoot an email to the infrastructure team to see if they know what is
> going on.
>
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