Sign in with github

[austiLuz]

Type: Bug

I'm trying to sign in to sync settings with github but it just keeps returning "having trouble logging in? Would you like to try a different way?" over and over and over again

VS Code version: Code 1.76.2 (Universal) (ee2b180d582a7f601fa6ecfdad8d9fd269ab1884, 2023-03-14T17:54:09.061Z) OS version: Darwin x64 21.6.0 Modes: Sandboxed: No

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[cheestudio]

@TylerLeonhardt I am experiencing the exact same issues.

[cheestudio]

@TylerLeonhardt I also tried creating a brand new GitHub account to see if perhaps there was an issue on that side of the authentication, but same result as above.

[cheestudio]

@austiLuz and @TylerLeonhardt

I finally got to the bottom of this. It was due to a previous installation of DOCKER which set some Windows System Variables, notably this:

And an entry setting a 127.0.0.1:XXXX entry (sorry I did not get a screenshot of that).

I removed both these entries and GitHub was able to authenticate.

[TylerLeonhardt]

@cheestudio this is really invaluable information. Thanks for sharing! I want to add this to the vscode docs.

@austiLuz can you tell me a bit about your proxy setup?

[cheestudio]

@TylerLeonhardt You're quite welcome. It was using the VSCode Inspector Dev tools that ultimately tipped me off that there could be some kind of local environment configuration that was the culprit. When I looked up the ENOTFOUND error across the web, I noticed a lot of people discussing it in relation to Proxies and a few mentioned Docker, which provided the light bulb I needed to look at my environment variables!

@tschams mentioned in https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/160649 that they added "http.proxySupport": "off" to their VSCode settings, and that also resolved it. I didn't see that before I had already removed my environment variables, but that sounds like it might also be a potential fix. It's at least something very easy to try first, and then if no success, move onto reviewing the environment variables.

[TylerLeonhardt]

@chrmarti is there more info you think we should gather here?

[chrmarti]

@TylerLeonhardt No, that all makes sense, thanks. The Network Proxy Test extension lists relevant env variables, so that could help diagnose similar issues. Maybe we should include that as built-in to make it easier to use.

[vscodenpa]

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