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[Mark Roszko <mark.roszko@xxxxxxxxx>]

Is it the same exact request failed message after "Curl request
failed"? i.e. CA Cert permissions?


Can you try to pacman the curl packages to reinstall them just in case?

On Thu, Dec 3, 2015 at 2:38 PM, jp charras <jp.charras@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Le 03/12/2015 18:33, Mark Roszko a écrit :
>> Ah yes I was planning on fixing that warning, its silly noise.
>>
>>
>>
>> That cacert problem is interesting, though generally troubleshootable
>>
>> It generally looks for a "cacert" file in the program's folder and
>> then PATH unless we specify it explicitly (usually no point as Linux
>> has it as a system package)
>> In a Windows distribution of kicad we would just have to copy cacert
>> to the kicad bin which is fine.
>>
>> You can try
>> pacman -S ca-certificates
>> or
>> pacman -S mingw-w64-x86_64-ca-certificates
>>
>> (since I get confused by the package paths and ugh it gets confusing
>> between shells).
>>
>>
>> Are you able to invoke a curl HTTPS connection in the shell?
>> curl https://www.google.com
>>
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> I can now invoke a curl https connection, after re-installing
> ca-certificates (the initial installed file was empty, and curl did not
> work when running "curl https://www.google.com";).
>
> For instance I can download the github data from command:
> curl https://api.github.com/orgs/KiCad/repos
>
> Unfortunately, I still have the "CURL Request Failed" issue when running
> pcbnew (the certificate file ca-bundle.crt coming from ca-certificates
> re-install is also copied from mingw32 in PATH)
>
> --
> Jean-Pierre CHARRAS



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Mark