# While trying to setup connection: context deadline exceeded. Retrying **URL:** \ **Category:** Dgraph\ **Tags:** liveload\ **Created:** [June 24, 2020, 1:54am UTC](https://discuss.dgraph.io/t/while-trying-to-setup-connection-context-deadline-exceeded-retrying/7346 "2020-06-24T01:54:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![gumupaier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e495f1/32.png) [@gumupaier](https://discuss.dgraph.io/u/gumupaier)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2020, 1:54am UTC](https://discuss.dgraph.io/t/while-trying-to-setup-connection-context-deadline-exceeded-retrying/7346/1 "2020-06-24T01:54:19Z")
hi The following error occurred while executing the command ```auto dgraph live --tls_cacert ./tls/ca.crt --tls_key ./tls/client.user.key --tls_server_name "192.168.123.34" -f A100_unlisted_1.json.gz -s entities.schema -a alpha1:9080 -x ./index ``` the error ```auto While trying to setup connection: context deadline exceeded. Retrying... 2020/06/24 01:49:55 Could not setup connection after 1 retries github.com/dgraph-io/dgraph/x.Fatalf /ext-go/1/src/github.com/dgraph-io/dgraph/x/error.go:114 github.com/dgraph-io/dgraph/x.GetDgraphClient /ext-go/1/src/github.com/dgraph-io/dgraph/x/x.go:793 github.com/dgraph-io/dgraph/dgraph/cmd/live.run /ext-go/1/src/github.com/dgraph-io/dgraph/dgraph/cmd/live/run.go:440 github.com/dgraph-io/dgraph/dgraph/cmd/live.init.0.func1 /ext-go/1/src/github.com/dgraph-io/dgraph/dgraph/cmd/live/run.go:120 github.com/spf13/cobra.(*Command).execute /go/pkg/mod/github.com/spf13/cobra@v0.0.5/command.go:830 github.com/spf13/cobra.(*Command).ExecuteC /go/pkg/mod/github.com/spf13/cobra@v0.0.5/command.go:914 github.com/spf13/cobra.(*Command).Execute /go/pkg/mod/github.com/spf13/cobra@v0.0.5/command.go:864 ``` What went wrong ---
**Author:** ![MichelDiz](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex007/user_avatar/discuss.dgraph.io/micheldiz/32/11873_2.png) [@MichelDiz](https://discuss.dgraph.io/u/MichelDiz)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2020, 2:09am UTC](https://discuss.dgraph.io/t/while-trying-to-setup-connection-context-deadline-exceeded-retrying/7346/2 "2020-06-24T02:09:30Z")
This error happens if your cluster fails or something (like “wrong url”). This logs don’t tell much about the history. ---
**Author:** ![gumupaier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e495f1/32.png) [@gumupaier](https://discuss.dgraph.io/u/gumupaier)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2020, 3:44am UTC](https://discuss.dgraph.io/t/while-trying-to-setup-connection-context-deadline-exceeded-retrying/7346/3 "2020-06-24T03:44:38Z")
hi @MichelDiz The following error log appears on alpha ```auto 2020/06/24 03:32:08 http: TLS handshake error from 172.24.0.1:45034: remote error: tls: unknown certificate 2020/06/24 03:32:08 http: TLS handshake error from 172.24.0.1:45040: EOF 2020/06/24 03:32:08 http: TLS handshake error from 172.24.0.1:45042: remote error: tls: unknown certificate 2020/06/24 03:32:08 http: TLS handshake error from 172.24.0.1:45046: EOF 2020/06/24 03:32:08 http: TLS handshake error from 172.24.0.1:45050: remote error: tls: unknown certificate 2020/06/24 03:32:08 http: TLS handshake error from 172.24.0.1:45058: tls: client didn't provide a certificate 2020/06/24 03:32:08 http: TLS handshake error from 172.24.0.1:45054: EOF 2020/06/24 03:32:08 http: TLS handshake error from 172.24.0.1:45062: remote error: tls: unknown certificate 2020/06/24 03:32:08 http: TLS handshake error from 172.24.0.1:45066: EOF 2020/06/24 03:32:08 http: TLS handshake error from 172.24.0.1:45070: tls: client didn't provide a certificate ``` But I used a Python file to verify that the TLS executed successfully ![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex007/uploads/dgraph/original/2X/5/557ee825fa64b68a5c577dbfbb22d02b67555d07.png) [tls\_example.py](https://discuss.dgraph.io/uploads/short-url/2khsRiLqkojng6bYrqzWGiT5QH.py) (1.6 KB) Did I have a parameter setting error in live Loader? the command ```auto dgraph live --tls_cacert ./tls/ca.crt --tls_key ./tls/client.user.key --tls_server_name 192.168.123.34 -f A100_unlisted_1.json.gz -s entities.schema -a alpha1:9080 -x ./index ``` ---
**Author:** ![MichelDiz](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex007/user_avatar/discuss.dgraph.io/micheldiz/32/11873_2.png) [@MichelDiz](https://discuss.dgraph.io/u/MichelDiz)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2020, 3:53am UTC](https://discuss.dgraph.io/t/while-trying-to-setup-connection-context-deadline-exceeded-retrying/7346/4 "2020-06-24T03:53:51Z")
Not sure, I haven’t used TLS in a long time. Gonna ping @joaquin. He has tested it lately. PS. Pls, share the steps you used to create the certs. ---
**Author:** ![gumupaier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e495f1/32.png) [@gumupaier](https://discuss.dgraph.io/u/gumupaier)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2020, 3:59am UTC](https://discuss.dgraph.io/t/while-trying-to-setup-connection-context-deadline-exceeded-retrying/7346/5 "2020-06-24T03:59:02Z")
hey @MichelDiz @joaquin I can provide a complete set of replication steps, which I’ll add later The full sample file is shown below. Download and unzip the file [tls.zip](https://discuss.dgraph.io/uploads/short-url/KU7SeqvG74uGY4jkshPAF2v2Wb.zip) (15.5 KB) Deploy the Dgraph cluster ```auto cd tls docker-compose up -d ``` Then enter the zero1 container to execute bash./bach\_import.sh error occurs ```auto docker exec -it zero1 /bin/bash cd /work chmod a+x bach_import.sh ./bach_import.sh ``` ---
**Author:** ![gumupaier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e495f1/32.png) [@gumupaier](https://discuss.dgraph.io/u/gumupaier)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2020, 5:56am UTC](https://discuss.dgraph.io/t/while-trying-to-setup-connection-context-deadline-exceeded-retrying/7346/6 "2020-06-24T05:56:22Z")
hey @MichelDiz Here are my steps for creating the certificate ```auto dgraph cert dgraph cert -n localhost,192.168.123.34,alpha1,alpha2,alpha3,zero1,zero2,zero3 dgraph cert -c user ``` ---
**Author:** ![joaquin](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex007/user_avatar/discuss.dgraph.io/joaquin/32/2619_2.png) [@joaquin](https://discuss.dgraph.io/u/joaquin)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2020, 5:22am UTC](https://discuss.dgraph.io/t/while-trying-to-setup-connection-context-deadline-exceeded-retrying/7346/8 "2020-07-30T05:22:56Z")
The `dgraph live` was executed from within one of the containers? With that cluster running (docker-compose) could you run this command below on the host? This requires the data files and the dgraph binary to be on the host. ```bash dgraph live \ --tls_cacert ./tls/ca.crt \ --tls_key ./tls/client.user.key --tls_server_name localhost \ -f A100_unlisted_1.json.gz \ -s entities.schema -x ./index ``` What does `192.168.123.34` represent? This is the host’s IP address?