fabric-ca-server is not able to start with softhsm configuration - hyperledger-fabric

Question

I have enabled the PKCS11 in fabric ca , but when starting the fabric-ca-server natively then throwing below error. Please note it works fine with default SW option.
Checkout the fabric-ca v1.3.0
Update BCCSP property as below
bccsp:
default: PKCS11
pkcs11:
library: /usr/local/lib/softhsm/libsofthsm2.so
pin: daily123
label: org1label
hash: SHA2
security: 256
filekeystore:
# The directory used for the software file-based keystore
keystore: msp/keystore
Run server with command
./fabric-ca-server start -b admin:adminpw -d
Error2018/10/12 07:27:01 [INFO] Configuration file location: /opt/gopath/bin/fabric-ca-server-config.yaml
2018/10/12 07:27:01 [INFO] Starting server in home directory: /opt/gopath/bin
2018/10/12 07:27:01 [INFO] Server Version: 1.3.0
2018/10/12 07:27:01 [INFO] Server Levels: &{Identity:1 Affiliation:1 Certificate:1 Credential:1 RAInfo:1 Nonce:1}
2018/10/12 07:27:01 [DEBUG] Making server filenames absolute
2018/10/12 07:27:01 [DEBUG] Initializing default CA in directory /opt/gopath/bin
2018/10/12 07:27:01 [DEBUG] Init CA with home /opt/gopath/bin and config {Version:1.3.0 Cfg:{Identities:{AllowRemove:false} Affiliations:{AllowRemove:false}} CA:{Name: Keyfile: Certfile:ca-cert.pem Chainfile:ca-chain.pem} Signing:0xc4204ce7d0 CSR:{CN:fabric-ca-server Names:[{C:US ST:North Carolina L: O:Hyperledger OU:Fabric SerialNumber:}] Hosts:[safenet localhost] KeyRequest:0xc4204b1ac0 CA:0xc4204b1b40 SerialNumber:} Registry:{MaxEnrollments:-1 Identities:[{ Name:**** Pass:**** Type:client Affiliation: MaxEnrollments:0 Attrs:map[hf.Registrar.Roles:* hf.Registrar.DelegateRoles:* hf.Revoker:1 hf.IntermediateCA:1 hf.GenCRL:1 hf.Registrar.Attributes:* hf.AffiliationMgr:1] }]} Affiliations:map[org2:[department1] org1:[department1 department2]] LDAP:{ Enabled:false URL:ldap://****:****#<host>:<port>/<base> UserFilter:(uid=%s) GroupFilter:(memberUid=%s) Attribute:{[uid member] [{ }] map[groups:[{ }]]} TLS:{false [] { }} } DB:{ Type:sqlite3 Datasource:fabric-ca-server.db TLS:{false [] { }} } CSP:0xc4204de060 Client:<nil> Intermediate:{ParentServer:{ URL: CAName: } TLS:{Enabled:false CertFiles:[] Client:{KeyFile: CertFile:}} Enrollment:{ Name: Secret:**** CAName: AttrReqs:[] Profile: Label: CSR:<nil> Type:x509 }} CRL:{Expiry:24h0m0s} Idemix:{IssuerPublicKeyfile: IssuerSecretKeyfile: RevocationPublicKeyfile: RevocationPrivateKeyfile: RHPoolSize:1000 NonceExpiration:15s NonceSweepInterval:15m}}
2018/10/12 07:27:01 [DEBUG] CA Home Directory: /opt/gopath/bin
2018/10/12 07:27:01 [DEBUG] Checking configuration file version '1.3.0' against server version: '1.3.0'
2018/10/12 07:27:01 [DEBUG] Initializing BCCSP: &{ProviderName:PKCS11 SwOpts:<nil> PluginOpts:<nil>}
2018/10/12 07:27:01 [DEBUG] Closing server DBs
Error: Failed to initialize BCCSP Factories: %!s(<nil>)
Could not find defaultPKCS11BCCSP

Answer 1

It works fine with latest fabric-ca images (as of now latest 1.4.0-snapshot-cb7353f).

Answer 2

If you use fabric-ca 1.3 code base, follow below steps to make it work
GO_TAGS=pkcs11 make fabric-ca-server
update fabric-ca-server-config.yaml with the softHSM data like token, label, pin, library (follow here https://hyperledger-fabric-ca.readthedocs.io/en/release-1.3/users-guide.html#configuring-fabric-ca-server-to-use-softhsm2)
restart fabric-ca server with fabric-ca-server start -b admin:adminpw
fabric-ca server is restarted as expected.