Failed to establish chain from reply when importing certificate using keytool

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Issue

  • I have an issue with when I tries to import a SSL certificate into my keystore.
    Here is what I did
    1) Create a key store.
/usr/java/jdk1.5.0_11/bin/keytool  -genkey -validity 1600 -keyalg rsa -sigalg SHA1withRSA -keystore example.keystore -alias example

2) Create a SSL request file

/usr/java/jdk1.5.0_11/bin/keytool -certreq -keystore  example.keystore -sigalg SHA1withRSA  -file example.req -alias example

3) I have sent the req file to our Allianz CA and they came back with
the cert file.
I then ran this command

/usr/java/jdk1.5.0\_11/bin/keytool -import -file signed\_example.cer  -keystore example.keystore -alias example

and It prompted me for password and asked me to confirm whether I should trust the certificate I am importing. I type yes. I got this error

keytool error: java.lang.Exception: Failed to establish chain from reply
  • While we import certificate we get the below error output
[root@app1 bin]# keytool -importcert -alias jboss -keystore abc.keystore -file partners-entrustcert.crt Enter keystore password: keytool error: java.lang.Exception: Failed to establish chain from reply

Environment

  • Java 1.4 or later

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