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spawn UNKNOWN error

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Description

👋 team, I’m working with a team working on Windows with limited permissions on their desktop. GitHub’s certificate has been whitelisted so Desktop can be installed, but any attempt to start it by users without admin privilege generates a spawn UNKNOWN dialog and the software can’t be used even after dismissing the dialog: for instance, buttons on the New Repository dialog seem enabled but nothing happens. Running as an administrator does succeed though, no error dialog at all.

2017-09-26 09_57_40-github desktop_1

Version

GitHub Desktop version: Github Desktop Version 1.0.3 OS version: Microsoft Windows 6.1.7601

Logs

2017-10-03T12:27:40.484Z - info: [ui] launching: 1.0.1 (Windows 6.1.7601)
2017-10-03T12:27:51.847Z - info: [ui] launching: 1.0.1 (Windows 6.1.7601)
2017-10-03T12:36:50.427Z - info: [ui] launching: 1.0.1 (Windows 6.1.7601)
2017-10-03T12:41:18.035Z - info: [ui] launching: 1.0.3 (Windows 6.1.7601)
2017-10-03T13:01:18.185Z - info: [ui] launching: 1.0.3 (Windows 6.1.7601)
2017-10-03T13:01:26.223Z - info: [ui] launching: 1.0.3 (Windows 6.1.7601)

Issue Analytics

State:
Created 6 years ago
Reactions:3
Comments:15 (9 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

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helailicommented, Oct 19, 2017

@shiftkey I just happened to open the issue for @DamienMure so we’re talking about the same exact environment. Thanks for your help!

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DamienMurecommented, Oct 19, 2017

Hi. I now trust the certificat from “Git for Windows” project:

No more “spawm UNKNOWN” alert
cloning a repository is now possible.

We can close this issue. Thank you all.

Regards.

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