242576 - Loose security device (PKCS11) after close app

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Thunderbird :: Preferences, defect)

Description

[boris marechal]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8

I have a usb token (rainbow ikey 3000), with thunderbird 0.6 and not 0.5, it
lose my security device after close application.

So I must re-enter the module filename (PKSC11 dll for Ikey) all times, I start
thunderbird in order to sign my mail.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.add a security device
2.load it
3.close thunderbird

Actual Results:  
look in device manager, your device is dispeared

Expected Results:  
My token stay in device manager :)

No pb with previous version of thunderbird

I don't test mozilla, so I don't know if it's a NSS bug or Thunderbird


I can't deploy thunderbird in my company because we have all a token to
sign/crypt mail, autenticate your-self, etc

Comment 1

[Gerald Vogt]

I have exactly the same problem with Mozilla 1.7 RC1. (I had thunderbird
installed before though...) Mozilla 1.6 worked. 

Can you please change the subject from PKSC to PKCS? I was looking for this bug
and found it only accidently...

Comment 2

[boris marechal]

Oups, I'm sorry PKSC mistake

So it seems to be a Mozilla/NSS 1.7.RC bug !

Comment 3

[boris marechal]

Oups, I'm sorry PKSC mistake

So it seems to be a Mozilla/NSS 1.7.RC bug !

Comment 4

[Scott MacGregor]

apparently this has nothing to do with Thunderbird and is currently present in
all of the mozilla apps. PSM or NSS may be a better component. This sounds like
a potential 1.7 stopper to me. 

cc'ing John in case he has an opinion on what component he thinks this bug belongs.

Comment 5

[Gerald Vogt]

I have did a few tests:

The PKCS #11 module does exist in secmod.db. I used modutil to check it and
modutil loaded the module without problems. It does not seem to be corrupted or
anything like that. Thus, my guess would be that either the module is never
initialized during startup of mozilla or for whatever reason mozilla "restores"
the original settings in memory during startup.

I cannot find any suitable working debugging options I could use to get some
debug logs for NSS else I might be able to tell you more about it...

Comment 6

[Gerald Vogt]

I have just updated to Mozilla 1.7 RC2 and it loaded the security device during
the first start. So it was properly configured in secmod.db but not loaded. And
at least for me with RC2 it is working again...

Comment 7

[Scott MacGregor]

I'm going to go ahead and mark this fixed since it sounds like 1.7 RC2 picked up
a fix for this.

If someone still sees it in 1.7final (or RC2) please re-open. Otherwise this fix
will automatically be in the next thunderbird release

Comment 8

[Jens Jorgensen]

*** Bug 244172 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***