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# sk130033 - "Main Mode I have no certificate to use for IKE" error message when VPN negotiation fails

| Property | Value |
|----------|-------|
| Solution ID | sk130033 |
| Date Created | 2018-06-20 |
| Last Modified | 2020-10-26 |
| Technical Level | Advanced |
| OS | Gaia |

## Symptoms

- * After migrate export to new machines, VPN negotiation fails with the error "Main Mode I have no certificate to use for IKE".
* When collecting VPN debugs during policy push the following error is seen in *vpnd.elg* on one of the trusted CA's:  
  "fwCertOfCAObj: can't find keyset of Trusted-CA-NAME"

## Cause

This is caused due to a database corruption. The Trusted CA object is broken and it affects all the certificate authorities.

**Note:** Even though the Broken CA is not used for the VPN negotiation it still affects it.

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