Visualize fails to connect to Seahorse via D-Bus

[Michael Schurter]

Visualize fails to read key information from seahorse:

$ bzr visualize
/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/bzrlib/plugins/gtk/ui.py:224: DeprecationWarning: bzrlib.progress.ProgressBarStack was deprecated in version 1.12.
  self._progress_bar_stack = progress.ProgressBarStack(klass=widget)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/bzrlib/plugins/gtk/revisionview.py", line 480, in _switch_page_cb
    self.signature_table.set_revision(self._revision)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/bzrlib/plugins/gtk/revisionview.py", line 207, in set_revision
    self.show_signature(crypttext)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/bzrlib/plugins/gtk/revisionview.py", line 226, in show_signature
    (cleartext, key) = seahorse.verify(crypttext)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/bzrlib/plugins/gtk/seahorse.py", line 79, in verify
    (cleartext, key) = crypto.VerifyText(KEY_TYPE_OPENPGP, 1, crypttext)
  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.6/dbus/proxies.py", line 68, in __call__
    return self._proxy_method(*args, **keywords)
  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.6/dbus/proxies.py", line 140, in __call__
    **keywords)
  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.6/dbus/connection.py", line 622, in call_blocking
    message, timeout)
dbus.exceptions.DBusException: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownMethod: Method "VerifyText" with signature "sis" on interface "org.gnome.seahorse" doesn't exist

Related packages:

ii seahorse 2.26.1-0ubuntu A Gnome front end for GnuPG
ii seahorse-plugi 2.26.1-0ubuntu seahorse plugins and utilities for encryptio
ii bzr 1.13.1-1 easy to use distributed version control syst
ii bzr-avahi 0.2+bzr36-1 mDNS plugin for Bazaar
ii bzr-dbus 0.1~bzr36-3 D-Bus announcements plugin for Bazaar
ii bzr-email 0.0.1~bzr34-1 Notification email plugin for Bazaar
ii bzr-gtk 0.95.0+bzr629- provides graphical interfaces to Bazaar (bzr
ii bzr-rebase 0.4.4-1 Rebase plugin for Bazaar
ii bzr-search 1.6.0~bzr57-1 search plugin for Bazaar
ii bzr-stats 0.0.1~bzr27-1 statistics plugin for Bazaar
ii bzr-svn 0.5.3-1 Bazaar plugin providing Subversion integrati
ii bzr-upload 0.1.0~bzr44-1 Bazaar plugin for uploading to web servers
ii bzrtools 1.13.0-1 Collection of tools for bzr

Keys:

/home/michael/.gnupg/pubring.gpg
--------------------------------
pub 1024D/D9202D77 2008-10-26
uid Michael Schurter <email address hidden>
uid Michael Schurter (Work Key) <email address hidden>
sub 4096g/8896060D 2008-10-26

[Roel Huybrechts (rulus)]

I can confirm the issue, using the same package versions as stated above (on Ubuntu Jaunty).

[Chris Lasher (chris.lasher)]

Is this a duplicate or related to Bug 297295?

[Michael Schurter (schmichael)]

@Chris Lasher: No. At least I don't think so. I experienced Bug 297295 in 8.10, but not in 9.04. This appears to be a different issue.