Zypper updates stopped working on SLES, Error Code: Curl Error 60

  • 7024620
  • 12-May-2020
  • 10-Jun-2020

Environment

GroupWise 18
GroupWise 2014

Situation

When running a "zypper ref -s" this message is returned

:Problem retrieving the repository index file for service ‘SUSE_Linux_Enterprise_Server_12_SP4_x86_64’
:Download (curl) error for ‘https://scc.suse.com/access/services/1610/repo.repoindex.xml?cookies=0&credentials= SUSE_Linux_Enterprise_Server_12_SP4_x86_64:
Error code: Curl error 60
Error message: SSL certificate problem: unable to get local issuer certificate 

Resolution

Run the command " update-ca-certificates "
Then run the " zypper ref -s " again and the patches should be able to be installed.

Cause

One of the SLES updates has caused this issue.  Running the update-ca-certificate resolves the issue