[Pkg-bitcoin-devel] Bug#764138: fails to create new wallet or recover from seed

[Thorsten Glaser]

On Sun, 5 Oct 2014, Joey Hess wrote:

> Now it fails with "No seed".

See https://github.com/spesmilo/electrum/issues/919

Should probably be RC.

I “live-patched” my files. Here is a bad direct filesystem diff:

--- xold/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/electrum/interface.py	2014-11-23 08:06:00.000000000 +0000
+++ /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/electrum/interface.py	2015-01-12 10:46:31.578093502 +0000
@@ -333,7 +333,7 @@ class Interface(threading.Thread):
                         continue
 
                     try:
-                        s = ssl.wrap_socket(s, ssl_version=ssl.PROTOCOL_SSLv23, cert_reqs=ssl.CERT_NONE, ca_certs=None)
+                        s = ssl.wrap_socket(s, ssl_version=ssl.PROTOCOL_TLSv1, cert_reqs=ssl.CERT_REQUIRED, ca_certs="/etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt", do_handshake_on_connect=True)
                     except ssl.SSLError, e:
                         print_error("SSL error retrieving SSL certificate:", self.host, e)
                         s = None
@@ -379,7 +379,7 @@ class Interface(threading.Thread):
         if self.use_ssl:
             try:
                 s = ssl.wrap_socket(s,
-                                    ssl_version=ssl.PROTOCOL_SSLv23,
+                                    ssl_version=ssl.PROTOCOL_TLSv1,
                                     cert_reqs=ssl.CERT_REQUIRED,
                                     ca_certs= (temporary_path if is_new else cert_path),
                                     do_handshake_on_connect=True)
@@ -399,7 +399,7 @@ class Interface(threading.Thread):
                     else:
                         print_msg("wrong certificate", self.host)
                 return
-            except Exception:
+            except BaseException:
                 print_error("wrap_socket failed", self.host)
                 traceback.print_exc(file=sys.stdout)
                 return
--- xold/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/electrum_gui/qt/installwizard.py	2014-03-11 00:00:00.000000000 +0000
+++ /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/electrum_gui/qt/installwizard.py	2015-01-12 10:38:00.735326442 +0000
@@ -31,7 +31,8 @@ class InstallWizard(QDialog):
     def set_layout(self, layout):
         w = QWidget()
         w.setLayout(layout)
-        self.stack.setCurrentIndex(self.stack.addWidget(w))
+        self.stack.addWidget(w)
+        self.stack.setCurrentWidget(w)
 
 
     def restore_or_create(self):

Now figuring out how to use this program…

bye,
//mirabilos
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