ERROR: pycurl.error (35, 'gnutls_handshake() failed: A TLS packet with unexpected length was received.') duing bzr launchpad-login [NAME]

bzr launchpad-login <email address hidden>
was the command used to set the launchpad login.

The following is the error details:
bzr: ERROR: pycurl.error: (35, 'gnutls_handshake() failed: A TLS packet with unexpected length was received.')

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/bzrlib/commands.py", line 920, in exception_to_return_code
    return the_callable(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/bzrlib/commands.py", line 1131, in run_bzr
    ret = run(*run_argv)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/bzrlib/commands.py", line 673, in run_argv_aliases
    return self.run(**all_cmd_args)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/bzrlib/commands.py", line 695, in run
    return self._operation.run_simple(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/bzrlib/cleanup.py", line 136, in run_simple
    self.cleanups, self.func, *args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/bzrlib/cleanup.py", line 166, in _do_with_cleanups
    result = func(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/bzrlib/plugins/launchpad/__init__.py", line 284, in run
    account.check_lp_login(name)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/bzrlib/plugins/launchpad/account.py", line 108, in check_lp_login
    data = _transport.get_bytes('~%s/+sshkeys' % username)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/bzrlib/transport/__init__.py", line 623, in get_bytes
    f = self.get(relpath)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/bzrlib/transport/http/__init__.py", line 121, in get
    code, response_file = self._get(relpath, None)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/bzrlib/transport/http/_pycurl.py", line 173, in _get
    return self._get_full(relpath)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/bzrlib/transport/http/_pycurl.py", line 208, in _get_full
    self._curl_perform(curl, header)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/bzrlib/transport/http/_pycurl.py", line 392, in _curl_perform
    curl.perform()
error: (35, 'gnutls_handshake() failed: A TLS packet with unexpected length was received.')

bzr 2.5.1 on python 2.7.3 (Linux-3.2.0-56-generic-x86_64-with-
    Ubuntu-12.04-precise)
arguments: ['/usr/bin/bzr', 'launchpad-login',
    '<email address hidden>']
plugins: bash_completion[2.5.1], changelog_merge[2.5.1], launchpad[2.5.1],
    netrc_credential_store[2.5.1], news_merge[2.5.1], po_merge[2.5.1],
    weave_fmt[2.5.1]
encoding: 'utf-8', fsenc: 'UTF-8', lang: 'en_US.UTF-8'

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        https://bugs.launchpad.net/bzr/+filebug
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