gRPC go on AIX

[amandeepgautam]

Hello,
    Can someone help me to set up gRPC go on AIX7.2 running on a Power 8. I tried installing using go get -u google.golang.org/grpc (https://grpc.io/docs/quickstart/go.html#prerequisites), but it fails with following:

Fetching https://google.golang.org/grpc?go-get=1
https fetch failed: Get https://google.golang.org/grpc?go-get=1: x509: failed to load system roots and no roots provided
package google.golang.org/grpc: unrecognized import path "google.golang.org/grpc" (https fetch: Get https://google.golang.org/grpc?go-get=1: x509: failed to load system roots and no roots provided)


Version info:
bash-4.4# go version
go version go1.8.1 gccgo (GCC) 7.2.0 aix/ppc


Any pointers would be helpful.

Thanks,
Aman

[Michael]

This falls into the category of "complex" as I have no experience with 'go', nor do I have ready access to AIX 7.2 or POWER8 (FYI: I do what I do on personally owned systems, not IBM nor customer systems.)

I assume 'x509' is your hostname.

Did you verify with any of host, nslookup, and/or dig that the hostname is resolveable?
If yes, did you verify that the port number used by go to import (e.g., 80, 443, or maybe something special) is reachable (I use 'telnet host.to.connect.to 443' and hope for a 'connection'.

While, or immediately following your request.

This must fail (as 1.2.3.4 does not exist)
michael@x071:[/home/michael]telnet 1.2.3.4 12345
Trying...

michael@x071:[/home/michael]netstat -tn | grep 12345
tcp        0      0  192.168.2.1.38567      1.2.3.4.12345          SYN_SENT


Another idea to learn more about the error messages - use a wrong hostname, use a wrong package name.

As - it should be working.

Lastly - as I do not know 'go' - what is a possible meaning re: "failed to load system roots and no roots provided"