Software Update Failing (NSURLErrorDomain error -1012) on Catalina 10.15.7 (2021-01-24)
On my Macbook Pro 2020 with Catalina 10.15.7
Software Update Failing is failing since a few days!
Today is 2021-01-24, the Errors seem to have started on 2021-01-17
System Preferences --> Software Update shows:
Unable to check for updates
Make sure you are connected to the interne
% sudo softwareupdate -l in the Terminal.app shows:
Finding available software.
The operation couldn’t be completed. (NSURLErrorDomain error -1012.)
% sudo softwareupdate --dump-state
% open /System/Applications/TextEdit.app /var/log/install.log
allows some analysis...
here a part of the log file :
2021-01-24 20:54:54+01 ... softwareupdated[552]: SUScan: Scan for client pid 552 (/System/Library/CoreServices/Software Update.app/Contents/Resources/softwareupdated)
2021-01-24 20:54:54+01 ... softwareupdated[552]: Adding client SUUpdateServiceClient pid=2025, uid=502, installAuth=NO rights=(), transactions=0 (/usr/sbin/softwareupdate)
2021-01-24 20:54:54+01 ... softwareupdated[552]: Failed Software Update - Refusing invalid certificate from host: swscan.apple.com
2021-01-24 20:54:54+01 ... softwareupdated[552]: Failed Software Update - Refusing invalid certificate from host: swscan.apple.com
2021-01-24 20:54:54+01 ... softwareupdated[552]: SUScan: Fetching the catalog failed due to an error. Although our catalogTestMode is nil, we will not exit a TestMode (if we are in one).
2021-01-24 20:54:54+01 ... softwareupdated[552]: SUScan: Elapsed scan time = 0.2
2021-01-24 20:54:54+01 ... softwareupdated[552]: SUScan: Error encountered in scan: Error Domain=NSURLErrorDomain Code=-1012 "(null)" UserInfo={NSErrorFailingURLStringKey=https://swscan.apple.com/content/catalogs/others/index-10.15-10.14-10.13-10.12-10.11-10.10-10.9-mountainlion-lion-snowleopard-leopard.merged-1.sucatalog, NSErrorFailingURLKey=https://swscan.apple.com/content/catalogs/others/index-10.15-10.14-10.13-10.12-10.11-10.10-10.9-mountainlion-lion-snowleopard-leopard.merged-1.sucatalog, NSLocalizedRecoverySuggestion=Make sure you’re connected to the internet, and then try again., SUErrorRelatedCode=SUErrorCodeScanCatalogNotFound}
2021-01-24 20:54:54+01 ... SoftwareUpdateNotificationManager[1396]: AssertionMgr: Take com.apple.softwareupdate.NotifyAgentAssertion-BadgingCountChanged assertion with type BackgroundTask for pid 1396, id 0x87DC
2021-01-24 20:54:54+01 ... softwareupdated[552]: Scan got error The operation couldn’t be completed. (NSURLErrorDomain error -1012.)
2021-01-24 20:54:54+01 ... softwareupdated[552]: SUScan: Scan for client pid 552 (/System/Library/CoreServices/Software Update.app/Contents/Resources/softwareupdated)
2021-01-24 20:54:54+01 ... softwareupdated[552]: SUStatisticsManager: Successfully reported statistics for category 5
Extracted from above :
NSErrorFailingURLKey=https://swscan.apple.com/content/catalogs/others/index-10.15-10.14-10.13-10.12-10.11-10.10-10.9-mountainlion-lion-snowleopard-leopard.merged-1.sucatalog
NSLocalizedRecoverySuggestion=Make sure you’re connected to the internet, and then try again.
SUErrorRelatedCode=SUErrorCodeScanCatalogNotFound
Downloading this file in Safari works without problem.
https://swscan.apple.com/content/catalogs/others/index-10.15-10.14-10.13-10.12-10.11-10.10-10.9-mountainlion-lion-snowleopard-leopard.merged-1.sucatalog
So this seems to be a certificate problem and has been encountered with older systems, too.
I tried a lot of things following old threads but nothing works.
Can you people on Catalina still update?
Is this a problem on Apples side?
