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ERROR:nss_util.cc(397)] Error initializing NSS without a persistent database: libsoftokn3.so: cannot open shared object file: Permission denied

  1. Oneiric (11.10)
  2. Bug #881607
Bug #881607 reported by Nick Colgan
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This bug affects 6 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Chromium Browser
Unknown
Unknown
chromium-browser (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Medium
Micah Gersten
Oneiric
Fix Released
Medium
Micah Gersten
Precise
Fix Released
Medium
Micah Gersten

Bug Description

The following error is given when opening chromium-browser from the terminal: [79:79:16194410127:ERROR:nss_util.cc(397)] Error initializing NSS without a persistent database: libsoftokn3.so: cannot open shared object file: Permission denied.

This seems to be specific to Ubuntu 11.10.
Chromium version: 14.0.835.202~r103287-0ubuntu1

Upstream bug report: http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=91962

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Micah Gersten (micahg) wrote :

Thank you for reporting this to Ubuntu. I believe this is fixed in the latest Chromium stable release which I will be pushing out soon. Please report any other issues you may find.

Changed in chromium-browser (Ubuntu Precise):
assignee: nobody → Micah Gersten (micahg)
importance: Undecided → Medium
status: New → In Progress
Changed in chromium-browser (Ubuntu Oneiric):
assignee: nobody → Micah Gersten (micahg)
status: New → In Progress
importance: Undecided → Medium
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :
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This bug was fixed in the package chromium-browser - 15.0.874.102~r106587-0ubuntu1

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chromium-browser (15.0.874.102~r106587-0ubuntu1) precise; urgency=low

  * New upstream release from the Stable Channel (LP: #881786)
    - fix LP: #881607 - Error initializing NSS without a persistent database
    This release fixes the following security issues:
    - [86758] High CVE-2011-2845: URL bar spoof in history handling. Credit to
      Jordi Chancel.
    - [88949] Medium CVE-2011-3875: URL bar spoof with drag+drop of URLs. Credit
      to Jordi Chancel.
    - [90217] Low CVE-2011-3876: Avoid stripping whitespace at the end of
      download filenames. Credit to Marc Novak.
    - [91218] Low CVE-2011-3877: XSS in appcache internals page. Credit to
      Google Chrome Security Team (Tom Sepez) plus independent discovery by
      Juho Nurminen.
    - [94487] Medium CVE-2011-3878: Race condition in worker process
      initialization. Credit to miaubiz.
    - [95374] Low CVE-2011-3879: Avoid redirect to chrome scheme URIs. Credit to
      Masato Kinugawa.
    - [95992] Low CVE-2011-3880: Don’t permit as a HTTP header delimiter. Credit
      to Vladimir Vorontsov, ONsec company.
    - [96047] [96885] [98053] [99512] [99750] High CVE-2011-3881: Cross-origin
      policy violations. Credit to Sergey Glazunov.
    - [96292] High CVE-2011-3882: Use-after-free in media buffer handling.
      Credit to Google Chrome Security Team (Inferno).
    - [96902] High CVE-2011-3883: Use-after-free in counter handling. Credit to
      miaubiz.
    - [97148] High CVE-2011-3884: Timing issues in DOM traversal. Credit to
      Brian Ryner of the Chromium development community.
    - [97599] [98064] [98556] [99294] [99880] [100059] High CVE-2011-3885: Stale
      style bugs leading to use-after-free. Credit to miaubiz.
    - [98773] [99167] High CVE-2011-3886: Out of bounds writes in v8. Credit to
      Christian Holler.
    - [98407] Medium CVE-2011-3887: Cookie theft with javascript URIs. Credit to
      Sergey Glazunov.
    - [99138] High CVE-2011-3888: Use-after-free with plug-in and editing.
      Credit to miaubiz.
    - [99211] High CVE-2011-3889: Heap overflow in Web Audio. Credit to miaubiz.
    - [99553] High CVE-2011-3890: Use-after-free in video source handling.
      Credit to Ami Fischman of the Chromium development community.
    - [100332] High CVE-2011-3891: Exposure of internal v8 functions. Credit to
      Steven Keuchel of the Chromium development community plus independent
      discovery by Daniel Divricean.

  [ Micah Gersten <email address hidden> ]
  * Switch to xz debs; Add Pre-Depends on dpkg >= 1.15.6 which is needed
    until after Precise
    - update debian/rules
    - update debian/control

  [ Chris Coulson <email address hidden> ]
  * Refresh patches
    - update debian/patches/dlopen_sonamed_gl.patch
    - update debian/patches/webkit_rev_parser.patch
  * Dropped patches, fixed upstream
    - remove debian/patches/cups_1.5_build_fix.patch
    - update debian/patches/series
  * Don't depend on cdbs being installed to create a tarball
    - update debian/rules
    - update debian/cdbs/tarball.mk

  [ Fabien Tassin ]
  * ...

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Changed in chromium-browser (Ubuntu Precise):
status: In Progress → Fix Released
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Miklos Juhasz (mjuhasz) wrote :

I have enabled the proposed repository and the error message is gone. I saw the error message with the previous version but there's no printout on the commandline with the new one.

This bug is resolved by the version in proposed.

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Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) wrote :

The update seems to be working fine for me as well and been using this for a good while, Marking it as verification-done, thanks all.

tags: added: verification-done
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :
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This bug was fixed in the package chromium-browser - 15.0.874.106~r107270-0ubuntu0.11.10.1

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chromium-browser (15.0.874.106~r107270-0ubuntu0.11.10.1) oneiric-security; urgency=low

  * New upstream release from the Stable Channel (LP: #881786)
    - fix LP: #881607 - Error initializing NSS without a persistent database
    This release fixes the following security issues:
    - [86758] High CVE-2011-2845: URL bar spoof in history handling. Credit to
      Jordi Chancel.
    - [88949] Medium CVE-2011-3875: URL bar spoof with drag+drop of URLs. Credit
      to Jordi Chancel.
    - [90217] Low CVE-2011-3876: Avoid stripping whitespace at the end of
      download filenames. Credit to Marc Novak.
    - [91218] Low CVE-2011-3877: XSS in appcache internals page. Credit to
      Google Chrome Security Team (Tom Sepez) plus independent discovery by
      Juho Nurminen.
    - [94487] Medium CVE-2011-3878: Race condition in worker process
      initialization. Credit to miaubiz.
    - [95374] Low CVE-2011-3879: Avoid redirect to chrome scheme URIs. Credit to
      Masato Kinugawa.
    - [95992] Low CVE-2011-3880: Don’t permit as a HTTP header delimiter. Credit
      to Vladimir Vorontsov, ONsec company.
    - [96047] [96885] [98053] [99512] [99750] High CVE-2011-3881: Cross-origin
      policy violations. Credit to Sergey Glazunov.
    - [96292] High CVE-2011-3882: Use-after-free in media buffer handling.
      Credit to Google Chrome Security Team (Inferno).
    - [96902] High CVE-2011-3883: Use-after-free in counter handling. Credit to
      miaubiz.
    - [97148] High CVE-2011-3884: Timing issues in DOM traversal. Credit to
      Brian Ryner of the Chromium development community.
    - [97599] [98064] [98556] [99294] [99880] [100059] High CVE-2011-3885: Stale
      style bugs leading to use-after-free. Credit to miaubiz.
    - [98773] [99167] High CVE-2011-3886: Out of bounds writes in v8. Credit to
      Christian Holler.
    - [98407] Medium CVE-2011-3887: Cookie theft with javascript URIs. Credit to
      Sergey Glazunov.
    - [99138] High CVE-2011-3888: Use-after-free with plug-in and editing.
      Credit to miaubiz.
    - [99211] High CVE-2011-3889: Heap overflow in Web Audio. Credit to miaubiz.
    - [99553] High CVE-2011-3890: Use-after-free in video source handling.
      Credit to Ami Fischman of the Chromium development community.
    - [100332] High CVE-2011-3891: Exposure of internal v8 functions. Credit to
      Steven Keuchel of the Chromium development community plus independent
      discovery by Daniel Divricean.

  [ Chris Coulson <email address hidden> ]
  * Refresh patches
    - update debian/patches/dlopen_sonamed_gl.patch
    - update debian/patches/webkit_rev_parser.patch
  * Dropped patches, fixed upstream
    - remove debian/patches/cups_1.5_build_fix.patch
    - update debian/patches/series

  [ Fabien Tassin ]
  * Disable NaCl until we figure out what to do with the private toolchain
    - update debian/rules
  * Do not install the pseudo_locales files in the debs
    - update debian/rules
  * Add python-simplejson to Build-depends. This is needed by NaCl even with
    NaCl disabled, so this is a te...

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Changed in chromium-browser (Ubuntu Oneiric):
status: In Progress → Fix Released
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