Impossible to use smart cards because initialization of system NSS database fails

On startup evolution tries to merge system NSS database (/etc/pki/nssdb) and user NSS database (~/.pki/nssdb), but this fails with following message:
(evolution:8009): camel-WARNING **: Failed to initialize NSS SQL database in sql:/etc/pki/nssdb: NSS error -8126
Тherefore initialization of NSS fails and certificates on registered smart cards are unavailable in Evolution. This makes signing e-mail with certificate on smart card impossible.

It seems that root of the problem is the line "library=libnsssysinit.so" in /etc/pki/nssdb/pkcs11.txt. If libnsssysinit.so is removed from this line, system database can be correctly initialized and certificates from smart cards are available. Google-chrome successfully loads NSS database, so it seems that this is specific to evolution problem, and not NSS bug.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: evolution 3.10.4-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-37.64-generic 3.13.11.7
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-37-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.5
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: GNOME
Date: Fri Oct 24 16:10:27 2014
InstallationDate: Installed on 2011-10-18 (1102 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release amd64 (20111012)
SourcePackage: evolution
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2014-05-07 (170 days ago)