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firefox-3.5 package

Could not initialize the application's security component.

Bug #559976 reported by Lars J. Nielsen on 2010-04-10

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #559881: libnss3-1d 3.12.6-0ubuntu0.9.10.1 breaks ssl/fips support in firefox. Edit Remove

This bug affects 3 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	firefox-3.5 (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: firefox-3.5

I just upgraded from Firefox 3.5.8 to 3.5.9.
Now I'm getting this error before the main windows is visible everytime I start of the browser:

"Could not initialize the application's security component. The most likely cause is problems with files in your application's profile directory. Please check that this directory has no read/write restrictions and your hard disk is not full or close to full. It is recommended that you exit the application and fix the problem. If you continue to use this session, you might see incorrect application behaviour when accessing security features."

I've tried making a backup on my default profile and doinf chmod -R 777 on the default profile and it didn't change anything so I've restored from the backup again.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
CheckboxSubmission: 0524b5460bc06af40adbf0c936456cd1
CheckboxSystem: 6915bcb4d81a5de019a23173afaab52e
Date: Sat Apr 10 13:35:11 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
Package: firefox-3.5 3.5.9+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.9.10.1
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=en_DK.UTF-8
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_DK.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-20.58-generic
SourcePackage: firefox-3.5
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-20-generic i686

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Lars J. Nielsen (ebidk) wrote on 2010-04-10:

Dependencies.txt Edit (3.5 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ExtensionSummary.txt Edit (1.2 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
XsessionErrors.txt Edit (135.2 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
default_profile_pluginreg.dat.txt Edit (8.7 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
profiles.ini.txt Edit (104 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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Milamber (milamberspace) wrote on 2010-04-10:

Same problem for me.

A workaround :

1/Stop FF.

2/ Delete (or move to backup) the file :
$HOME/.mozilla/firefox/xxxxxxx.default/secmod.db

3/ Start FF

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Lars J. Nielsen (ebidk) wrote on 2010-04-12:

After todays update of libnss3-d1 to version 3.12.6-ubuntu0.9.10.2

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Lars J. Nielsen (ebidk) wrote on 2010-04-12:

After todays update of libnss3-d1 to version 3.12.6-ubuntu0.9.10.2 it works for me without the workaround.

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Micah Gersten (micahg) wrote on 2010-04-12:

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 559881, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Please continue to report any other bugs you may find.

Thanks for confirming the update works.

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jhansonxi (jhansonxi) wrote on 2011-01-06:

An alternate cause and solution to the same error message:
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Could_not_initialize_the_browser_security_component