Mycrfot hung and lost all skills after rebbot

as of this AM, w/o touching mycroft. it is a dead brick.

rebooting it says stuck at Wait a moment as I finish booting up. NEVER Fineshes.

2022-01-16 16:45:45.376 | INFO | 984 | mycroft.skills.msm_wrapper:create_msm:96 | Acquiring lock to instantiate MSM
2022-01-16 16:45:45.380 | INFO | 984 | msm.mycroft_skills_manager | building SkillEntry objects for all skills
2022-01-16 16:45:45.796 | WARNING | 984 | msm.skill_repo | Could not prepare repo (GitCommandError([‘git’, ‘fetch’], 128, b"fatal: unable to access ‘GitHub - MycroftAI/mycroft-skills: A repository for sharing and collaboration for third-party Mycroft skills development.’: server certificate verification failed. CAfile: none CRLfile: none", b’‘)), Creating temporary repo
2022-01-16 16:45:46.235 | WARNING | 984 | msm.skill_repo | Could not use temporary repo either (GitCommandError([‘git’, ‘fetch’], 128, b"fatal: unable to access ‘GitHub - MycroftAI/mycroft-skills: A repository for sharing and collaboration for third-party Mycroft skills development.’: server certificate verification failed. CAfile: none CRLfile: none", b’')), trying to use existing one without update
2022-01-16 16:45:46.236 | WARNING | 984 | msm.mycroft_skills_manager | Failed to update repo: MergeConflict

What is wrong?