signtool reports function failed: An I/O error occurred during security authorization.

[PeterRoss]

Binary package hint: libnss3-tools

After installing the libnss3-tools package

I followed the following steps with password: bogus

mkdir XXX
certutil -d XXX -N
signtool -d XXX -p bogus -G test

and then I received the following error message

using certificate directory: XXX
signtool: function failed: An I/O error occurred during security authorization.

I then downloaded the linux signtool binary from
ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/security/nss/releases/NSS_3_11_RTM/Linux2.6_OPT.OBJ/nss-3.11.tar.gz

and the used the version of signtool there and it worked fine.

[Andrew Jorgensen (ajorg)]

I see this bug on gutsy. An strace reveals that signtool is trying to open "nss/libfreebl3.so" which is under /usr/lib (libnss3-0d) but it is not resolving the location properly. This may be a side-effect of rpath being disabled by a debian patch.

A workaround is to do "ln -s /usr/lib/nss" in the directory where you're running signtool.

[xteejx (xteejx-deactivatedaccount)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering if this is still an issue for you. Can you try with the latest Ubuntu release? Thanks in advance.

[xteejx (xteejx-deactivatedaccount)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!

[PeterRoss (peter-emailross)]

This bug is fixed in karmic koala.