After following the instructions at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Testcase_make_Mozilla_applications_use_system_nss firefox can no longer remember passwords. Certificates are fine. I've created a new firefox profile and removed the old contents of ~/.pki/nssdb too. And when I run firefox with libnsssysinit.so enable (in the pkcs11.txt file in my firefox profile directory), passwords aren't remembered. If I disable libnsssysinit.so again, then it works fine. firefox-3.5.6-1.fc12.x86_64 nss-3.12.5-2.fc12.x86_64
When firefox should 'learn' a new password, it pops up the bar at the top asking it it should store the password. I click 'Remember' but nothing happens, and the bar stays where it is instead of disappearing as it should. Looking in the error console, I see: Error: uncaught exception: [Exception... "'User canceled master password entry, login not added.' when calling method: [nsILoginManagerStorage::addLogin]" nsresult: "0x8057001e (NS_ERROR_XPC_JS_THREW_STRING)" location: "JS frame :: file:///usr/lib64/xulrunner-1.9.1/components/nsLoginManager.js :: anonymous :: line 454" data: no] There's no password on the database.
I'm not yet clear what https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Testcase_make_Mozilla_applications_use_system_nss achieves. I may be wrong, but I suspect these instructions will tell Mozilla to use that system nss, only. If I'm right, then Mozilla is probably unable to write to the /etc database, because that directory is owned by root (of course), not by the user.
Could be related to bug 603313? Kai, no -- the point of the system database is that it _also_ opens ~/.pki/nssdb as an 'overlay', and the user can write there.
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