Unable to complete authentication doing browser flow - --enable-crashpad received

[laercio-carvalho]

Describe the feature or problem you’d like to solve

I can't sign in with browser.
I'm trying to do login in the browser but it never finish.

Proposed solution

To have a "sign in" on the GitHub Desktop again.

PS: I'm try to talk in english but my native language is Portuguese.

[laercio-carvalho]

Describe the feature or problem you’d like to solve

I can't sign in with browser. I'm trying to do login in the browser but it never finish.

Proposed solution

To have a "sign in" on the GitHub Desktop again.

PS: I'm try to talk in english but my native language is Portuguese.

Temporarily I solved my problem using 2.9.6

[BrahimDahmani]

+1

[bronnel]

I have the same issue

[vinicioslc]

I have the same issue ElementaryOS
Apparently something with url from deeplinking url

The function that receives the oauth action its receiving unknown instead oauth with data

Version used its flatpak most recent
[AppStore] loading 0 repositories from store
install.ts:28 launching: 2.9.9-linux2 (Linux 5.13.0-35-generic)

[owocado]

I also have the same issue on latest version. I checked dev console and seeing the same warning message posted by @vinicioslc above. I installed through yay/pacman (bin version).

[miracleflame]

+1 on fresh Linux Mint

[guipaulo]

+1 i have the same issue

[nahuel3pro]

+1 on manjaro

[LarveyOfficial]

+1 popOS

[WilPermenter]

+1

Edit: This is a known issue. The best fix for this is to install an old version 2.9.6> and sign in on it. Once that is done then Login on that and then you can install the newer version. This Solution works on Ubuntu & Arch and probably everything else.

[pegvin]

Same issue with me:

OS: Manjaro Linux
Linux Version 5.15
GitHub Desktop Version: 2.9.9-linux2
Architecture: x64

My Log File:

2022-03-25T06:59:15.600Z - info: [ui] [AppStore] loading 0 repositories from store
2022-03-25T06:59:15.707Z - info: [ui] launching: 2.9.9-linux2 (Linux 5.15.28-1-MANJARO)
2022-03-25T06:59:15.707Z - info: [ui] execPath: '/opt/github-desktop/github-desktop'
2022-03-25T06:59:20.021Z - info: [ui] [SignInStore] initializing OAuth flow
2022-03-25T06:59:20.024Z - info: [main] opening in browser: https://github.com/login/oauth/authorize?client_id=ID-HIDDEN-BECAUSE-NOT-SURE-IF-ITS-SAFE-TO-SHARE
2022-03-25T06:59:22.746Z - info: [main] Received possible protocol arguments: 4
2022-03-25T06:59:22.746Z - info: [main] Processing protocol url
2022-03-25T06:59:22.748Z - warn: [ui] Unknown URL action: unknown - payload: {"name":"unknown","url":"--enable-crashpad"}

[mattheusts]

+1 Archlinux using the version provided by aur 2.9.9-2.

[pegvin]

I downgraded my version to 2.9.4 and it works currently!

[shiftkey]

Apologies for the delay in digging into this - I've had many other things distracting me. I recommend downgrading in the meantime to an earlier version, as those should be unaffected.

I've dusted off my test machine and walked through the steps here and I see this --enable-breakpad message when I do the sign-in flow, so clearly something's broken here with how the app is being re-launched with the 2.9.9 update.

[shiftkey]

My working theory on this bug is the Electron upgrade has changed what parameters are passed through. After tracing what URL is received within the app I see a number of parameters preceding the URL parameter that we need:

handlePossibleProtocolLauncherArgs: ["github-desktop","--enable-crashpad","--allow-file-access-from-files","x-github-desktop-dev-auth://oauth?code=[snip]&state=[snip]"]

What we do currently is just pass in the item at index 1, which appears to be this line:

desktop/app/src/main-process/main.ts

Lines 264 to 266 in 2b48044

	} else if (args.length > 1) {
	handleAppURL(args[1])
	}

[shiftkey]

I've backported the bugfix from #687 to the release where this was first noticed, if you want to verify this addresses the issue we were originally seeing:

• 2.9.9 Linux RC3

Otherwise this is available in the latest release that contains all the upstream changes:

• 2.9.12 Linux RC2

I'll leave this open for a while to confirm this has resolved the problem for users, but if you're seeing different behaviour let's move this to a fresh issue due to the noise.

[shiftkey]

@thyeun has informed me that #687 doesn't cover the cases completely, and was seeing this with the latest release:

2022-04-03T18:15:34.707Z - warn: [ui] Unknown URL action: unknown - payload: {"name":"unknown","url":"/usr/bin/github-desktop"}

I think #689 will also handle that case. Will drop a link to the new installer when it's ready.

[shiftkey]

2.9.12 Linux RC3 is available for testing which has an additional fix

[SpriteOvO]

@shiftkey I successfully logged in on 2.9.12 Linux RC3, but not RC2. Thank you very much!

[joaoKuchnir]

Fixed for me in manjaro, thanks!

[mwt]

RC3 works for me on Ubuntu Focal.

[shiftkey]

Closing this out as resolved