Can't connect to jabber servers using CACert although ca-certificates is installed

Bug #717923 reported by Muelli
50
This bug affects 9 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
empathy (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Low
Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: empathy

I can't connect to jabber.ccc.de because "the certificate is cryptographically weak" or has a "weak cypher" (sic!)

I do have the ca-certificates package installed and thus expected to be able to connect to a site that uses ca-cert.

Apparently, empathy doesn't integrate well with that package.

muelli@ideabox:~$ apt-cache policy ca-certificates
ca-certificates:
  Installed: 20090814+nmu2
  Candidate: 20090814+nmu2
  Version table:
 *** 20090814+nmu2 0
        500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ natty/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
muelli@ideabox:~$

muelli@ideabox:~$ apt-cache policy empathy telepathy-gabble ca-certificates
ca-certificates:
  Installed: 20090814+nmu2
  Candidate: 20090814+nmu2
  Version table:
 *** 20090814+nmu2 0
        500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ natty/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
empathy:
  Installed: 2.33.1-0ubuntu1
  Candidate: 2.33.1-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 2.33.1-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ natty/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
telepathy-gabble:
  Installed: 0.11.6-1ubuntu1
  Candidate: 0.11.6-1ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 0.11.6-1ubuntu1 0
        500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ natty/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
muelli@ideabox:~$

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: empathy 2.33.1-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-3.30-generic 2.6.38-rc4
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-3-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat Feb 12 23:56:24 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Alpha amd64 (20110201.2)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 LC_MESSAGES=en_GB.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: empathy

Revision history for this message
Muelli (ubuntu-bugs-auftrags-killer) wrote :
Revision history for this message
Omer Akram (om26er) wrote :

thanks for the bug report. Please attach the telepathy gabble logs from the time when you see the problem.

You can get those logs from Help>Debug a window will pop, there in a drop down menu select gabble and click the save button and attach the log file to this bug report.

PS: it is preferred and appreciated that you clear the logs first and reproduce the bug so that the logs are less and relevant.

Changed in empathy (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Low
status: New → Incomplete
tags: removed: running-unity
Revision history for this message
Muelli (ubuntu-bugs-auftrags-killer) wrote :

Here is the log.

Changed in empathy (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Opinion
status: Opinion → New
Revision history for this message
Muelli (ubuntu-bugs-auftrags-killer) wrote :
Revision history for this message
Ralf Hildebrandt (ralf-hildebrandt) wrote :

It also happens here when connecting to de.postfix.org, which uses a CA cert class 3 certificate. It's a bit unclear which certificates empathy is actually using.

Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in empathy (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
To post a comment you must log in.
This report contains Public information  
Everyone can see this information.

Other bug subscribers

Remote bug watches

Bug watches keep track of this bug in other bug trackers.