SSL error: Unable to get certificate from '/etc/mysql/newcerts/client-cert.pem' (no replies)

Hi I am trying to configure a SSL based replication between my master and slave and i think i have setup everything correctly
but i still keep getting the error in my mysql.log
SSL error: Unable to get certificate from '/etc/mysql/newcerts/client-cert.pem'
and the
show slave status is

mysql> show slave status\G;
*************************** 1. row ***************************
Slave_IO_State: Connecting to master
Master_Host: masterIP
Master_User: slave_user
Master_Port: 3306
Connect_Retry: 60
Master_Log_File: mysql-bin.000002
Read_Master_Log_Pos: 106
Relay_Log_File: ex-relay-bin.000001
Relay_Log_Pos: 4
Relay_Master_Log_File: mysql-bin.000002
Slave_IO_Running: No
Slave_SQL_Running: Yes
Replicate_Do_DB: exampledb
Replicate_Ignore_DB:
Replicate_Do_Table:
Replicate_Ignore_Table:
Replicate_Wild_Do_Table:
Replicate_Wild_Ignore_Table:
Last_Errno: 0
Last_Error:
Skip_Counter: 0
Exec_Master_Log_Pos: 106
Relay_Log_Space: 106
Until_Condition: None
Until_Log_File:
Until_Log_Pos: 0
Master_SSL_Allowed: Yes
Master_SSL_CA_File: /etc/mysql/newcerts/ca-cert.pem
Master_SSL_CA_Path:
Master_SSL_Cert: /etc/mysql/newcerts/client-cert.pem
Master_SSL_Cipher:
Master_SSL_Key: /etc/mysql/newcerts/client-key.pem
Seconds_Behind_Master: NULL
Master_SSL_Verify_Server_Cert: No
Last_IO_Errno: 2026
Last_IO_Error: error connecting to master 'slave_user@xxx.xx.xx.xxx:3306' - retry-time: 60 retries: 86400
Last_SQL_Errno: 0
Last_SQL_Error:
1 row in set (0.00 sec)

How do i know what is going wrong with the configuration
the directory where the files are placed on the master is

/etc/mysql/newcerts


$ ls -lrt
total 32
-rw-r--r-- 1 test test 1675 Nov 7 11:33 ca-key.pem
-rw-r--r-- 1 test test 1667 Nov 7 11:34 ca-cert.pem
-rw-r--r-- 1 test test 1062 Nov 7 11:41 server-req.pem
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1679 Nov 7 11:41 server-key.pem
-rw-r--r-- 1 test test 1306 Nov 7 11:41 server-cert.pem
-rw-r--r-- 1 test test 1062 Nov 7 12:30 client-req.pem
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1675 Nov 7 12:30 client-key.pem
-rw-r--r-- 1 test test 1306 Nov 7 12:57 client-cert.pem



please let me know what i am missing