Michael,
Michael Kaply wrote:
> Is there a bug open on this?
>
> This seems bad.
As fas I know, it's a feature of NSS to automatically look for the root cert
module and store it . The problem here may be that the two compilers
generate incompatible binaries and you cannot mix them.
secmod.db is a database which contains a list of PKCS#11 cryptographic
modules. PKCS#11 modules are implemented as shared libraries on Unix or DLLs
in OS/2 & Windows. Their purpose is to access special cryptographic devices,
such as smart card readers, or provide other security functionality.
Obviously the PKCS#11 modules need to be built with the same compiler as the
application that loads them. That isn't specific to nssckbi.dll, which
happens to be a PKCS#11 module that ships with NSS and contains a list of CA
certificates. The only real answer here to solve the problem would be to use
a common calling convention for PKCS#11 calls that would allow the nssckbi
from one compiler to load in the browser application built with another, eg.
_System. This should work because the PKCS#11 interface is procedural C, not
object oriented.
>
>
> Mike Kaply
> IBM
>
> Julien Pierre wrote:
>
> > Jens,
> >
> > Jens Manfredson wrote:
> >
> > > The following I found in the file secmod.db:
> > >
> > > Builtin Roots Module
> > > /F:\INTERNET\CLIENTS\MOZILLA_EMX\BIN\nssckbi.dll
> > >
> > > This hard coded path to my EMX version causes the VACPP version to
> > > crash!!
> > >
> > > Jens
> >
> > The first time an NSS program loads, it will attempt to load nssckbi -
> > the root certificate module , and then store its location into the
> > secmod database. If you migrated your profile from EMX to VACPP, this
> > would happen. Just delete the secmod.db and everything will be OK - a
> > new secmod.db will be created automatically with a pointer to correct
> > version of nssckbi found in your LIBPATH.
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