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Bug#1053669: thunderbird: primary password not ask on startup - only in safe-mode it works

From	Andreas Matthus <matthus@nexgo.de>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.bugs.dist
Subject	Bug#1053669: thunderbird: primary password not ask on startup - only in safe-mode it works
Date	2023-10-10 14:00 +0200
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Hallo Carsten,

I tried all you wrote without success. If cert9.db and logins.json 
removed all password-entries and so on must reenter (you warn for that)  
but by reenter none lines added in saved passwords.

O.K.  I must work and moved the old profile to a virtual machine and 
begin with a blank profile on the problem-machine. So I recreate all 
mailboxes, calendars, certificates step by step by coping settings  and 
passwords from the virtual machine. The gpg-keys I must import from a 
third machine. Now I can work again.

On the third machine with a similar setup the upgrade from 102 to 115 
make no problems. So I can't say what is the causal effect and we can 
close the bug.

with regards


Am 09.10.23 um 21:27 schrieb Carsten Schoenert:
> Hello Andreas,
>
> On 10/9/23 20:02, Andreas Matthus wrote:
>> Hallo Carsten,
>>
>> thank you for your answer.
>> Unfortunately deleting and/or change primary password give no success.
>>
>> On javaconsole I see a difference:
>> ---snipp
>> encrypted-openpgp-passphrase.txt corruption fixed. Corrupted file 
>> moved to 
>> /home/andreas/.thunderbird/ys2evdnt.default/encrypted-openpgp-passphrase.txt.corrupt 
>> masterpass.jsm:200:19
>> NS_ERROR_FAILURE: Component returned failure code: 0x80004005 
>> (NS_ERROR_FAILURE) [nsISecretDecoderRing.encryptString]
>>      _ensurePasswordCreatedAndCached 
>> chrome://openpgp/content/modules/masterpass.jsm:269
>> RNP.jsm:465:15
>> NS_ERROR_FAILURE: Couldn't decrypt string crypto-SDR.sys.mjs:199
>> NS_ERROR_FAILURE: Couldn't decrypt string crypto-SDR.sys.mjs:199
>> ---snipp
>>
>> Every time I start without --safe-mode 
>> encrypted-openpgp-passphrase.txt renamed to
>> encrypted-openpgp-passphrase.txt-1.corrupt, 
>> encrypted-openpgp-passphrase.txt-2.corrupt and so on.
>>
>> All extensions I deleted an purged thunderbird-l10n-de, but just the 
>> same result.
>
> you can try to stop Thunderbird, backup the file key4.db from your 
> profile folder, than remove that file and restart Thunderbird.
>
> Thunderbird will create a new file and you should be able to set again 
> a new master password.
> Other possible corrupted files are cert9.db and logins.json.
> If you remove these files you need to re-add all the passwords and 
> certificates that were used! So be careful.
>
> It's long ago but we did have similar bug report in the past there 
> deleting the key4.db was the solution. But you
>
> As always, please make a backup of your profile folder before doing 
> any modification within the profile folder.
>

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Bug#1053669: thunderbird: primary password not ask on startup - only in safe-mode it works Andreas Matthus <matthus@nexgo.de> - 2023-10-08 14:10 +0200
  Bug#1053669: thunderbird: primary password not ask on startup - only in safe-mode it works Andreas Matthus <matthus@nexgo.de> - 2023-10-09 20:20 +0200
  Bug#1053669: thunderbird: primary password not ask on startup - only in safe-mode it works Andreas Matthus <matthus@nexgo.de> - 2023-10-10 14:00 +0200

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