[B]*** nss-shared-helper warning on firefox[/B]

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OpenSuSe 11.1 32 bits Gnome

Hi,

Everytime I run Firefox in the terminal I get the following message:

*** nss-shared-helper: Shared database disabled (set NSS_USE_SHARED_DB
to enable)

Should I enable this? how do I do that?

Thanks

Andres

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Hi
Have no idea, do you wish to share a NSS crypto database?

If you add the following to ~/.profile


export NSS_USE_SHARED_DB=enabled

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What are the pros and cons of enabling this?

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Hi
Maybe a read help may help?
Overview
of NSS Open Source Crypto Libraries

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I too started getting this error. I have changed nothing. I have only
updated openSUSE 11.1. Enabling the environment variable does seem to
fix it … but I dont understand why I suddenly have to enable this to
get thunderbird to start. (for me it wasnt just a warning but an actual
fatal segmentation fault) Your link to the help text is all and good but
it is over my head. One interesting thing - I set the env variable to
get thunderbird to startup… Now that it has started succesfully, I
closed thunderbird, unset the env variable and it seems to start
normally… I dont get it…

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Hi
I have no idea as to why there is a requirement?? Maybe reporting it as
a bug may help?

Is the command your using to clear the variable clearing it?

Use the command env to check. Else remove the command from .profile as
a test, then open a console/konsole session and use the command export
NSS_USE_SHARED_DB=enabled and start you application.

Then exit your application and then close the console, open a new
console session but don’t export the variable and run your application,
still working?

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openSUSE 11.1 x86 Kernel 2.6.27.7-9-default
up 2:25, 1 user, load average: 0.25, 0.15, 0.19
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