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openCryptoki FAQ - Kent Yoder <yoder1@us.ibm.com>
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1. Q. All openCryptoki applications are returning CKR_TOKEN_NOT_PRESENT,
even though the token is there, and its STDLL is in the right place.
What's the problem?
A1. The user who's executing the application is probably not a member
of the pkcs11 group.
A2. Check that the device driver for your hardware token is loaded.
(`lsmod` in Linux).
A3. If you're doing development, this error will also be returned of your
token's STDLL has unresolved symbols in it. Enable debugging and
check the debug log to find out what symbols are undefined.
2. Q. When C_Initialize() gets called by my app, openCryptoki returns
CKR_HOST_MEMORY, even though I've got lots of free memory. What's
the problem?
A1. CKR_HOST_MEMORY is returned also if openCryptoki cannot attach
to shared memory. This can happen if:
a1. The user who's executing the application is not a member of
the pkcs11 group.
a2. pkcsslotd is not running.
3. Q. pkcsconf is returning:
Error getting token info: 0x2
This is CKR_HOST_MEMORY, see question 2.
Error getting token info: 0x3
The slot ID you're providing is invalid.
4. Q. How can I get the complete debug logs from openCryptoki?
A. In the opencryptoki version 2.4 release, if opencryptoki has
been compiled with debugging enabled (configure --enable-debug),
then debug messages are logged to the file specified with
OPENCRYPTOKI_DEBUG_FILE environment variable. If this environment
variable is not set, then opencryptoki debug messages are not logged.
Note: Error messages that used to be sent to stderr when debugging was
enabled in prior versions of opencryptoki, are now logged to this file.
Debugging does not have to be enabled for syslog messages to be
logged. Syslog messages are logged according to the system's syslog
configuration.
For versions of openCryptoki starting with openCryptoki-2.0 and before
openCryptoki-2.4, define the environment variable PKCS11_API_LOG_DEBUG=1
(in versions of openCryptoki before 2.0, define
AIX_PKCS11_API_LOG_DEBUG=1).
Also, apparently by default syslogd does not have an entry in
/etc/syslogd.conf for debug messages, so even if you have debug
messages enabled in your openCryptoki compile, you'll not get them in
the system log until you edit /etc/syslogd.conf and restart syslogd.
Add an entry in /etc/syslogd.conf such as:
# vi /etc/syslogd.conf
---
[...]
*.debug /var/log/debuglog
---
# killall -HUP syslogd
Now, when openCryptoki is configured with the --enable-debug
option (or if you install the -debug rpms), /var/log/debuglog
will receive its debugging messages.
5. Q. My PKCS#11 app is hangs at the point where the PKCS11_API.so tries
to log data to the system log. What can I do to fix this?
A. Link your application against the pthread library.
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