Hello all:
While following through the ROOT 6 analysis workshop I came across a problem when trying to access a root file on the internet, (Not on my machine).
When ever I type TFile* file = TFile::Open(“http://root.cern.ch/root/files/tutorials/mockupx.root”);
into root as prompted by the tutorial. I get a message that says it cannot be accessed because the issuer is not trusted.
The error I get is below
Error in : can not open file with davix: Neon error: Server certificate verification failed: issuer is not trusted (6)
I am running ROOT 6.03/04 Built for macosx64 (Im running Yosemite)
From tag v6-03-04
Any ideas on what i can do to access files on the internet??
Hi,
This typically indicates that you do not have enough information to validate the certificate of the remote peer, i.e. root.cern.ch in this case. Which means that you do not have installed the CA issuer of the root.cern.ch certificate, which is COMODO.
to your system.rootrc or .rootrc should avoid the problem in this case. It may be that Davix hasn’t been able to find the CA in the system keychain, although it is there. (COMODO is a standard trusted root certificate in OS X Yosemite). I will check if this is happening.
Visiting the link you sent me actually fixed my problem, in a a sort of unorthodox way…
I installed mac ports and followed the prompts in the page. sudo yum install root root-net-davix
but instead used sudo port install root6 root-net-davix since I am using macports and ports said root was obsolete.
I did not realize until a few minutes in that this meant it was going to install both “ROOT6” and
"root-net-davix".
I removed the binary files for ROOT6 that I had installed previously and let Macports run.
“root-net-davix” failed to install though. (later realized it wasnt needed.)
ROOT 6.04/00 is now installed and runs davix great.
I guess I would recommend that all mac users install ROOT by this method,
downloading MacPorts and running sudo port install root6.