Bug#731378: nss-passwords fails to decrypt

[Yann Dirson <ydirson@free.fr>]

On Wed, Dec 04, 2013 at 11:22:42PM +0100, Stéphane Glondu wrote:
> Le 04/12/2013 20:46, Yann Dirson a écrit :
> > nss-passwords, which I only run occasionally, fails today with the
> > following message:
> > 
> > Fatal error: exception Main.NSS_decrypt_failed("<base64 here>", -5977, 0)
> > 
> > After trying several accounts on commandline, it looks like it
> > succeeds in finding the password entry but just can't decypher it any
> > more.  Could it be some change in libnss that broke something ?
> > [...]
> > Versions of packages nss-passwords depends on:
> > ii  libc6                       2.17-93
> > ii  libncurses5                 5.9+20130608-1
> > ii  libnspr4-0d                 2:4.10.2-1
> > ii  libnss3-1d                  2:3.15.3-1
> > ii  libsqlite3-0                3.8.1-1
> > ii  libtinfo5                   5.9+20130608-1
> > ii  pinentry-curses [pinentry]  0.8.1-1
> 
> I've got exactly the same versions as you, and it works for me. What
> version of Iceweasel are you using?

That's 24.1.0esr-1.

Now that you ask, I realize that I usually used nss-passwords against
archived profiles that I don't open any more - and it does still work
on them.  Only on the currently-in-use profile does it exhibit the
problem.