No authentication providers available error

[timheuer]

Type: Bug

I'm trying to sign in to sync settings and VSCode is notifying no authentication providers available yet there are and I have no disabled auth extensions in fact Microsoft/GitHub show in the same account list

https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/5f4e023c-637f-4bd5-9b6f-053d118cc24c

/cc @isidorn

VS Code version: Code - Insiders 1.96.0-insider (818169af1dac5a59b4cb43c5681cfe0ea4a23463, 2024-11-07T05:05:36.563Z) OS version: Windows_NT x64 10.0.26100 Modes:

System Info

|Item|Value| |---|---| |CPUs|11th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-11370H @ 3.30GHz (8 x 3302)| |GPU Status|2d_canvas: enabled
canvas_oop_rasterization: enabled_on
direct_rendering_display_compositor: disabled_off_ok
gpu_compositing: enabled
multiple_raster_threads: enabled_on
opengl: enabled_on
rasterization: enabled
raw_draw: disabled_off_ok
skia_graphite: disabled_off
video_decode: enabled
video_encode: enabled
vulkan: disabled_off
webgl: enabled
webgl2: enabled
webgpu: enabled
webnn: disabled_off| |Load (avg)|undefined| |Memory (System)|31.84GB (8.86GB free)| |Process Argv|--crash-reporter-id 5f5d2ab1-465c-4ddc-809d-58d91db5dfb0| |Screen Reader|no| |VM|0%|

Extensions (104)

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A/B Experiments

``` vsliv368cf:30146710 vspor879:30202332 vspor708:30202333 vspor363:30204092 vscod805cf:30301675 vsaa593:30376534 py29gd2263:31024238 vscaac:30438845 c4g48928:30535728 2i9eh265:30646982 962ge761:30841072 pythongtdpath:30726887 pythonnoceb:30776497 asynctok:30898717 dsvsc014:30777825 dsvsc015:30821418 pythonmypyd1:30859725 h48ei257:31000450 pythontbext0:30879054 cppperfnew:30980852 pythonait:30973460 da93g388:31013173 dvdeprecation:31040973 dwnewjupyter:31046869 nb_pri_only:31057983 nativerepl1:31134653 refactort:31084545 pythonrstrctxt:31093868 nativeloc1:31118317 cf971741:31144450 e80f6927:31120813 i21gd607:31141543 iacca1:31150324 notype1:31143044 dwcopilot:31158714 g7688163:31155431 cf1a2727:31176403 ```

[isidorn]

Assigning first to @TylerLeonhardt since there should always be at least two built-in authentication providers

fyi @sandy081

[TylerLeonhardt]

/duplicate https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/232516

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