Comment # 2 on bug 978443 from Christoph Wickert

The 'fresh' user does not really make a difference, but it gave me some ideas
to further troubleshoot the problem.

With a fresh user, I still got the first error message, but at least the first
start wizard worked and I was able to create a new keyring.

I then disabled gnome-keyring-daemon and after a re-login, gpa no longer
displays the first error message but correctly lists keys. Obviously there is
an incompatibility with gnome-key-ring daemon. 

Unfortunately searching keyservers still does not work, the second error
message remains.