Gitlab fatal: unable to access '.......' SSL Certificate problem: unable to get issuer certificate

Question

I just started getting this error message in Gitlab today when I push my changes to my code repo in Gitlab.

Gitlab fatal: unable to access '.......' SSL Certificate problem: unable to get issuer certificate

I have stopped and started the gitlab runner using gitlab-runner stop then gitlab-runner start however this error message persists everytime I push my changes to gitlab.

Answer 1

The root cause for this issue is when the remote repository is setup to use SSH only but you have an http/s remote setup for the local repository.

Fixes:

1. Change the remote repository to accept all types of connections.

2. Change the local repositories' remote to SSH.

Answer 2

Open terminal in the text editor and paste the following line and hit enter:

git config --global http.sslBackend channel

That should resolve the issue. It did for me.

Answer 3

With some investigation online I found this posted 9 months ago (https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-runner/-/issues/4805) which is weird as this issue hasn't occurred until now for me.

In short the issue listed there is known to occur in Gitlab Runner version 12.4.0 and from what you can see in my error output I do have Gitlab Runner version 12.4.0

So the fix is to upgrade my Gitlab Runner version, which I did to the latest which is version 13.2.2

To upgrade I ran this command: rpm -Uvh gitlab-runner_<arch>.rpm

To find out what to replace <arch> with you can simply run gitlab-runner -v on your server where you have gitlab runner installed and it'll show you the OS/Arch. Here's a sample output:

Version: x.x.x
Git revision: ......
Git branch: x-x-stable
GO version: gox.xx.x
Built: <date and time>
OS/Arch: <grab the Arch field here to replace the **arch**  field above with>