Bug#686327: gnome-online-accounts: ssl handshake broken - even when I activate most certificates

[Norbert Preining]

Hi Michael,

On Fri, 31 Aug 2012, Michael Biebl wrote:
> severity 686327 important

disagree.

> Can't reproduce your problem here. Creating a Google Account works just
> fine here. This might indeed be related due to your local certificate
> configuration.

Then please explain me why the *first* secured connection to the
google server where I have to enter the credentials worked out
(*after* I have activated the Thawte certificates), and I was allowed
to log in, and was asked to "Grant access", and only at the grant access
stage it broke?

> If you run "/usr/lib/gnome-online-accounts/goa-daemon --replace" do you
> get any useful log messages related to your problem?

Nothing but the initial three lines:
[~] /usr/lib/gnome-online-accounts/goa-daemon --replace
17:50:00.575:[5838]:[NOTICE]: goa-daemon version 3.4.2 starting [main.c:112, main()]
17:50:00.576:[5838]:[INFO]: Entering main event loop [main.c:136, main()]
17:50:00.584:[5838]:[INFO]: Connected to the session bus [main.c:56, on_bus_acquired()]
17:50:00.585:[5838]:[INFO]: Acquired the name org.gnome.OnlineAccounts on the session message bus [main.c:73, on_name_acquired()]
...

> For testing purposes, could you temporarily enable the default set of
> Debian certificates. Testing with a fresh user account would be helpful,
> too.

What *is* the default set of Debian certificates?

> I'm downgrading the severity, as the problem is not reproducible, so it
> doesn't look like this is a general problem.

Still, I can reproduce it 100%

And ..

> https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=131622 sounds an awful lot
> like your problem.

Of course I checked the internet and tried several things before, I have
seen this posting, why I started playing around with certificates.

The hint from this link brought me one step further, as explained
above. Namely I was asked the credentials. But after that setup
of the identity doesn't work.

> I don't want to claim just yet that this is a local "mis"configuration,
> but it certainly looks like.

So, then tell me *where* there is the configuration. Gnome 3 (not your fault!!)
is just f***ing stupid in hiding everything in a way that nobody knows
what is actually necessary or problematic.

> Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the
> universe are pointed away from Earth?

Well, probably too many Gnome 3 developers out there on Earth?

Best wishes

Norbert

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