457074 - TB won't start with Estonian ID card and OpenSC PKCS#11 module

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 444974

(NSS :: Libraries, defect)

Description

[Eugene Savitsky]

Attachment: The broken file

1. Had the Shredder 20090924 crashed.
2. After that it would not start. It loads a thunderbird.exe process for 18,5Mb and thats all.
3. Started to delete files from profile and found that deleting secmod.db fixed the problem.
4. Returning the old file let the TB not to start, so the problem is defenetly in that file.

Attaching the broken file. Maybe it helps.

Comment 1

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

secmod.db is the security database, so I expect this is more of a problem with how the security storage is working than with what Thunderbird is doing. Moving to the core security component.

Comment 2

[Nelson Bolyard (seldom reads bugmail)]

The secmod.db file instructs your mozilla program to load the following 
shared library (.dll file) and call some of its functions.

  opensc-pkcs11
        library name: C:\WINDOWS\system32\opensc-auth-pkcs11.dll

I suspect that the problem was caused by that shared library.  When you 
removed the secmod.db file, your program no longer attempted to load that
shared library or use any of its functions, and your program worked OK.

Presumably at some time in the past you installed some smart card or other
crypto device on your system, and that installation configured your Mozilla
program to use that shared library. 

Go ahead and remove that file.  Toss it.  Your program will generate a new
one that will not try to use that shared library, and it will be happy.
Perhaps reinstalling the software for the crypto device that installed that
shared library will make it work again.  

I see no NSS problem here.

Comment 3

[timeless]

one of nss/psm needs to report missing pkcs11 modules and not treat it as a fatal error. it's probably a bug in psm, could you please help point out where the bug is?

Comment 4

[Nelson Bolyard (seldom reads bugmail)]

missing modules cause no problems.  Bad modules cause problems.  

Comment 0 doesn't really describe the failure.  "That's all", whatever 
that means.   I'm guessing it crashed when it loaded that DLL and called it.
Nothing NSS/PSM can do about a crash in a module.  

Might also be a dup or variant of bug 444974.  see bug 444974 comment 37 and 
later.

Comment 5

[Eugene Savitsky]

Yes I have Estonian ID-card installed. Using it to access online banks. onlibe voting system, medical, tax and other goverment systems etc. 

I assume Firefox uses the same library and it does not had any problems starting up, as TB did before crashing.

Comment 6

[Nelson Bolyard (seldom reads bugmail)]

What exact version of TB crashes like this?
What exact version of FF does not crash?    :)

Would you be willing to be a "guinea pig" (tester) for a patched file that
may work around this, or may give us more information about the problem?

Comment 7

[Eugene Savitsky]

All was fine for 3 years I'm using the ID-card, on many computers. All was fine and with Shredder 20090924. But after the crash it wont load anymore. I installed Shredder 20090925 and had the same problem, I started to figure out what may couze this and found secmod.db.

Here is the ID-card homepage with software installation:
http://www.id.ee/?lang=en


BTW installing SH 20090924 above SH 20090919 for some reason asked for reboot, and installing SH 20090925 once again. Dunno if this relays.

Comment 8

[Eugene Savitsky]

May the crash just break the secmod.db in some way?

Comment 9

[Nelson Bolyard (seldom reads bugmail)]

There's nothing wrong with the secmod.db file.  The secmod.db file tells
your program (Firefox, Thunderbird, shredder, SeaMonkey, etc.) to use the 
software for your Estonian ID card.  The problem happens only when that 
software is used.  When you remove the secmod.db file, your program stops 
using the software for the Estonian ID card, and the problem goes away.  

I'm working with another user who is having a similar problem to try to 
diagnose the problem.  I'll report here if any new developments occur.

Comment 10

[Eugene Savitsky]

As I said I had no problem for 3 years. Only after the last crash... BTW I have a new file created in TB profile after I deleted the old one. I attach it here.

Comment 11

[Eugene Savitsky]

Attachment: The new secmod.db file.

Comment 13

[Denis]

http://www.enot.ee/bug2008-10-20.jpg

:(

Comment 14

[Denis]

Attachment: crash, if remove ID card

Comment 15

[Eugene Savitsky]

I believe it's the same crash as FF does time to time for me...

Comment 16

[timeless]

fwiw.

http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/How_to_get_a_stacktrace_with_WinDbg

when you get that dialog, use windbg (follow the general symbols instructions above), debug>attach to process

try using
!analyze -v -f

I'm not certain if it will work, if it fails, do this:

~* kp

attach whichever gives useful output/

Comment 17

[Nelson Bolyard (seldom reads bugmail)]

The screen shot in comment 14 shows that the crash occurred in code that
came from a source file named card.c.  But there is no source file named
card.c anywhere in Firefox or Thunderbird.  Therefore, the crash is not 
occurring in Thunderbird or Firefox source code, but rather in source 
code from some other software, most likely the ee-id software.  

There is nothing that the Thunderbird or Firefox developers can do to 
correct a crash in the ee-id software.  Please report this problem to the
makers of that software.

Comment 18

[Nelson Bolyard (seldom reads bugmail)]

The crash shown in comment 14 is NOT a duplicate of bug 444974.
Bug 444974 is a crash in Mozilla code.  
The crash shown in comment 14 is not in Mozilla code.