SVN checkout fails with error 'SSL handshake failed: Secure connection truncated'

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Hi,

I have a fresh install of OpenSUSE 12.3 (64 bit). I have set up an SVN repository, which I serve using apache over https (for security reasons). Trying to browse the repositories at https://localhost/svn/master/ works perfectly.

However, an SVN checkout (from a clear home directory on the server itself):

svn checkout https://localhost/svn/master/0045_http_lib/

fails with the following error:


svn: E175002: Unable to connect to a repository at URL 'https://localhost/svn/master/0045_http_lib'
svn: E175002: OPTIONS of 'https://localhost/svn/master/0045_http_lib': SSL handshake failed: Secure connection truncated (https://localhost)

I tried to diagnose the problem using openssl. The following command:


openssl s_client -tls1_2 -connect localhost:443

fails with the following error:


CONNECTED(00000003)
139721060136616:error:1409E0E5:SSL routines:SSL3_WRITE_BYTES:ssl handshake failure:s3_pkt.c:596:
---
no peer certificate available
---
No client certificate CA names sent
---
SSL handshake has read 0 bytes and written 0 bytes
---
New, (NONE), Cipher is (NONE)
Secure Renegotiation IS NOT supported
Compression: NONE
Expansion: NONE
SSL-Session:
    Protocol  : TLSv1.2
    Cipher    : 0000
    Session-ID: 
    Session-ID-ctx: 
    Master-Key: 
    Key-Arg   : None
    PSK identity: None
    PSK identity hint: None
    SRP username: None
    Start Time: 1371737468
    Timeout   : 7200 (sec)
    Verify return code: 0 (ok)
---

However, passing -tls1_1 or -tls1 instead of -tls1_2 works fine.

Does anybody know why this happens? Or, if this is a known bug, whether there is a workaround?

Many thanks,
Stefan.

P.S. Note: The same server configuration seeemed to work fine on OpenSUSE 12.2.

2

I have fixed the problem.

In case it proves useful for anybody in the future, the solution was to re-issue the server certificate. I suspect the problem was related to a mismatch between the actual server name and the common name in the certificate. Some while ago, the IP of the server had changed, but I kept using the old certificate. The only side effect was a warning, which I used to ignore, as this was a more-or-less private server anyway. That is, until I reached OpenSUSE version 12.3, which seems to be more strict and require a match.

Cheers,
Stefan.