Description of problem: I was running pkiconsole https://possum.pki:9443/ca and was getting no output from command and no GUI showed up. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): pki-console-1.0.0-9.fc8 pki-console-ui-1.0.0-1.fc8 idm-console-framework-1.1.2-1.fc8 Additional info: The problem ended up being that the NSS database that the console used needed to be EC enabled as the CA I was trying to administer had an EC SSL certificate. I corrected the problem by doing the following: [root@possum ~]# cd /root/.dogtag-idm-console/ [root@possum ~]# modutil -dbdir . -nocertdb -add certicom -libfile /usr/lib/libsbcpgse.so Running the pkiconsole command after that, the login box came up and after supplying correct credentials, the console appeared.