when I'm using certutil it returns this error: certutil: function failed: security library: bad database.
e.g. I can't list certs or keys
How Can I fix this?
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If it is new system, your certificate database might not be initialized. To fix this, perform:
mkdir -p $HOME/.pki/nssdb
certutil -d $HOME/.pki/nssdb -N
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2If you don't want a password on the certificate database, add the
--empty-passwordswitch to the end of thecertutilcommand. May 31, 2018 at 15:32 -
I found that if I ran instead:
certutil -d sql:$HOME/.pki/nssdb -Lit would not result in that error. But if I just runcertutil -Lit would show that error. Does that mean the database is not corrupted, but there's some incompatibilty or does certutil expect the wrong directory? Jan 15, 2020 at 5:17
In case database already has been initialised, but still is corrupted then it has to be rebuild:
$ mv ~/.pki/nssdb ~/.pki/nssdb.corrupted
$ mkdir ~/.pki/nssdb
$ chmod 700 ~/.pki/nssdb
$ certutil -d sql:$HOME/.pki/nssdb -N
Check if working alright
$ certutil -d sql:$HOME/.pki/nssdb -L
Certificate Nickname Trust Attributes
SSL,S/MIME,JAR/XPI
Import certificate
$ certutil -d sql:$HOME/.pki/nssdb -A -t "C,," -n GoAgent -i ~/programs/goagent/local/CA.crt
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Since last update of libGNUTLS on Debian my browsers (chrome and iceweasel) failed to open. On console I got
[5284:5310:0306/110217:ERROR:nss_util.cc(750)] After loading Root Certs, loaded==false: NSS error code: -8018and no way to solve this gracefully. Rebuilding the DB solved it for me! Thank you very much :)– pidMar 6, 2014 at 11:18 -
I was able to rebuild the DB and list the certificates after that, but my import is still failing with the error:
certutil: function failed: SEC_ERROR_BAD_DATABASE: security library: bad database.My import command iscertutil -d sql:$HOME/.pki/nssb -A -t "CT,C,C" -n sophos -i ~/Downloads/sophos_cert.crtThis shouldn't have to be run as root, should it?– GillfishJul 29, 2015 at 15:54 -
This fixed an
nss_util.ccerror:After loading Root Certs, loaded==false: NSS error code: -8018when starting Google Chrome on an existing user profile that was possibly corrupted.– mchidSep 19 at 10:45
If you want to display certifications from a specific folder (for example, the folder which stores the cert8.db file for Firefox), you need to specify the folder with "-d":
nss-certutil -d /Users/myuser/Library/Application\ Support/Firefox/Profiles/jii912uh.default -L
Otherwise, nss-certutil may try to read *.db files from ~/.netscape folder, or maybe $HOME/.pki/nssdb as previous user mentioned.
Also check the -d directory path (must point to the directory) have any space or not. With space it gives the same error or bad file format error - old database format etc. Specially in Mac the folder is in "Application Support" which contains space. So have the path fully quoted:
"/Users/myuser/Library/Application Support/Firefox/Profiles/jii912uh.default"
or add the \ escape character.
/Users/myuser/Library/Application\ Support/Firefox/Profiles/jii912uh.default
And check that the folder have the following files, cert8.db, key3.db and secmob.db.
Quite an old question, but the mentioned solutions did not work for me, because the error was caused by incorrect shell expansion.
In my case, I had to replace ~ with $HOME, e.g.
certutil -d sql:~/.pki/nssdb -A -t "C,," -n KEY_NAME -i ~/path_to_the_key/key.cert
became
certutil -d sql:$HOME/.pki/nssdb -A -t "C,," -n KEY_NAME -i $HOME/path_to_the_key/key.cert
In my case I solved problem using this solution (Windows XP, nss 3.15.1):
cd /dir/with/database
C:/full/path/to/certutil.exe -L -d .
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