rclone will run fine for months at a time. The command I run most often is:
rclone sync {{path/to/file_or_directory}} {{remote_name}}:{{path/to/directory}}
Then - seemingly out of nowhere - I run my rclone sync ... command and get the following error:
failed to open source object: certificate has expired or is not yet valid
I always do the same thing, issue the following commands, and the problem usually goes away:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get install --reinstall ca-certificates
Occasionally running those three commands above does not work, and I'm forced to take drastic actions:
- Disable wifi
- Connect to a router through an ethernet cable
- Restart the computer
- retry all of the commands above (upgrade, reinstall ca-certificates, rclone sync *)
and somehow the ethernet connection fixes everything.
Why do I occasionally have to use an ethernet cable to make my rclone certificate errors go away? I don't always carry an ethernet cable on me, and even if I did it's not always easy to connect to the router that is offering you wifi access. I do not really know the root cause of the problem, and how to fix it.
