Bug#638903: iceweasel refuses to start after upgrade

[Svante Signell]

On Tue, 2011-08-23 at 08:19 +0200, Mike Hommey wrote:

> At best, iceweasel could (should) initialize the nss modules off the
> main thread to avoid freezing like this, but this is not a serious issue
> anymore.
> 
> What you can do is install the libnss3-tools package, and disable the
> faulty NSS module with modutil -dbdir ~/.mozilla/firefox/$profiledir
> -delete or -disable (-list will give you a list of the installed
> modules)

#> modutil -dbdir ~/.mozilla/firefox/$profiledir -list
modutil: function failed: security library: bad database

Where is $profiledir?

The directories I have below identifier.default/ are:

Cache, OfflineCache, chrome, extensions, startupCache, weave