The "corosync" service fails to start with "nsscrypto" error: NSS DB initialization failed (err -8023)

Issue

• The corosync.service fails to start and reports the below error for crypto_nss:

  $ cat /var/log/messages
  ---------------------------------------->8-----------------------------------------
  Dec  1 10:52:39 efedb1u4 corosync[2413878]:  [MAIN  ] Corosync Cluster Engine 3.1.7 starting up
  Dec  1 10:52:39 efedb1u4 corosync[2413878]:  [MAIN  ] Corosync built-in features: dbus systemd xmlconf vqsim nozzle snmp pie relro bindnow
  Dec  1 10:52:39 efedb1u4 corosync[2413878]:  [TOTEM ] Initializing transport (Kronosnet).
  Dec  1 10:52:39 efedb1u4 corosync[2413878]:  [TOTEM ] knet_handle_crypto_set_config (index 1) failed: -2
  Dec  1 10:52:39 efedb1u4 corosync[2413878]:  [KNET  ] pmtud: MTU manually set to: 0
  Dec  1 10:52:39 efedb1u4 corosync[2413878]:  [KNET  ] common: crypto_nss.so has been loaded from /usr/lib64/kronosnet/crypto_nss.so
  Dec  1 10:52:39 efedb1u4 corosync[2413878]:  [KNET  ] nsscrypto: NSS DB initialization failed (err -8023): A PKCS #11 module returned CKR_DEVICE_ERROR, indicating that a problem has occurred with the token or slot.
  Dec  1 10:52:39 efedb1u4 corosync[2413878]:  [MAIN  ] Can't initialize TOTEM layer
  Dec  1 10:52:39 efedb1u4 corosync[2413878]:  [MAIN  ] Corosync Cluster Engine exiting with status 15 at main.c:1608.
  

• You may additionally see errors resembling the below, while creating the cluster ( reviewing journalctl -xe would reflect the above errors ):

  $ pcs cluster setup --start rhel8_cluster rhel8-node1 rhel8-node2
  No addresses specified for host 'rhel8-node1', using 'rhel8-node1'
  No addresses specified for host 'rhel8-node2', using 'rhel8-node2'
  Destroying cluster on hosts: 'rhel8-node1', 'rhel8-node2'...
  rhel8-node2: Successfully destroyed cluster
  rhel8-node1: Successfully destroyed cluster
  Requesting remove 'pcsd settings' from 'rhel8-node1', 'rhel8-node2'
  rhel8-node2: successful removal of the file 'pcsd settings'
  rhel8-node1: successful removal of the file 'pcsd settings'
  Sending 'corosync authkey', 'pacemaker authkey' to 'rhel8-node1', 'rhel8-node2'
  rhel8-node1: successful distribution of the file 'corosync authkey'
  rhel8-node1: successful distribution of the file 'pacemaker authkey'
  rhel8-node2: successful distribution of the file 'corosync authkey'
  rhel8-node2: successful distribution of the file 'pacemaker authkey'
  Sending 'corosync.conf' to 'rhel8-node1', 'rhel8-node2'
  rhel8-node1: successful distribution of the file 'corosync.conf'
  rhel8-node2: successful distribution of the file 'corosync.conf'
  Cluster has been successfully set up.
  Starting cluster on hosts: 'rhel8-node1', 'rhel8-node2'...
  Error: rhel8-node1: Starting Cluster...
  Error: Unable to start corosync: Job for corosync.service failed because the control process exited with error code.
  See "systemctl status corosync.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details.
  Error: rhel8-node2: Starting Cluster...
  Error: Unable to start corosync: Job for corosync.service failed because the control process exited with error code.
  See "systemctl status corosync.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details.
  Error: Errors have occurred, therefore pcs is unable to continue