Re: [Evolution] Cannot Import Certificate "security library: bad database"

[Milan Crha <mcrha redhat com>]

On Thu, 2011-07-07 at 20:46 +0200, Andre Klapper wrote:
> On Thu, 2011-07-07 at 10:12 -0400, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> > In Preferences -> Certificates -> Authorities if I try to import a PEM
> > certificate I get the following error:
> >
> > Failed to import certificate authority's certificate: security library:
> > bad database
> >
> > Does this really mean the certificate database is bad; if so is there a
> > way to rebuild / fix it?
>
> Looks like that string was introduced by fixing
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=619218 - maybe Milan can
> elaborate as he wrote that patch...?

        Hi,
it's way long time ago. The strings added just transfer error codes to
error messages. Where I got those strings I do not recall, but most
likely in documentation for particular functions.

Back to Adam's issue, Evolution is supposed to use the system
certificate database, sharing it with other applications, since 2.32.0,
though it got to 2.30.x (by a mistake?) too, as it caused quite some
trouble there. That was done within bug [1]. It contains some
information, which I'm not sure whether it'll be helpful for you.
It's basically the most I know about this.
        Bye,
        Milan

[1] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=585301