I have a problem with the certificates in Arch linux. It seems that it can't find ca-certificates.crt. I have updated my system and installed the ca-certificates{,-utils,-mozilla} packages and it still doesn't work.
git clone http://github.com/sstephenson/bats.git
Cloning into 'bats'...
fatal: unable to access 'https://github.com/sstephenson/bats.git/': error setting certificate verify locations:
CAfile: /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt
CApath: none
I am posting an answer to my own question because I solved the problem and I did not find a valid solution elsewhere. There is no /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificate-crt file. So a link needs to be provided to the proper cert.
$ ln -s /etc/ca-certificates/extracted/ca-bundle.trust.crt /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt
Now I can curl and git clone through https.
certbot was broken for me after March 2017's ca-certificates-utils 20170307-1 "manual intervention" update fix. This fixed certbot.
OSError: Could not find a suitable TLS CA certificate bundle, invalid path: /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt
I had the same problem with attempts to git clone from AUR. As with pianomanfrazier, creating a symlink resolved the immediate issue. However, I found that docker was still unable to pull, throwing the error:
docker: Error while pulling image: [image name]
x509: certificate signed by unknown authority.
Removing the symlink and running pacman -S ca-certificate-utils appeared to fix the underlying problem. (Noting docker needed a systemctl restart docker for the fix to take effect.)
