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Login error

See original GitHub issue

Describe the bug

When I want to login to GitHub, application opens Firefox and Firefox writes (in Czech): obrazek English translation: Address not recognized: An error occurred while connecting to github.com. You may need to install additional software to open this address.

Version & OS

Open ‘About GitHub Desktop’ menu to see the Desktop version. Also include what operating system you are using.

Version: 2.5.4-linux1 OS: Linux Mint 20 - Cinnamon

Steps to reproduce the behavior

Go to File -> Options... -> Accounts -> GitHub.com -> Sign in
Now it opens Firefox and you see the error

Expected behavior

It shows login form to GitHub

Actual behavior

Application opened Firefox with error.

Logs

Attach your logs by opening the Help menu and selecting Show Logs..., if applicable.

2021-01-03T13:21:37.346Z - info: [ui] [SignInStore] initializing OAuth flow 2021-01-03T13:21:37.363Z - info: [main] opening in browser: https://github.com/login/oauth/authorize?client_id=3a723b10ac5575cc5bb9&scope=repo user workflow&state=e53dcfa5-821e-427c-b6ad-55d138f5efac

Issue Analytics

State:
Created 3 years ago
Reactions:1
Comments:13 (4 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

2reactions

shiftkeycommented, Jan 31, 2021

I installed app as DEB package.

@pervoj we rely on MimeType configuration value in the .desktop file to signal to the browser to launch our app:

https://github.com/shiftkey/desktop/blob/a63a8655b42165230dac3b01ca5ea5eceb7f8e38/script/package-debian.ts#L67-L75

And that should be present after installation:

$ ls /usr/share/applications/github-desktop.desktop | grep MimeType
MimeType=x-scheme-handler/x-github-client;x-scheme-handler/x-github-desktop-auth;x-scheme-handler/x-github-desktop-dev-auth;

I’ve assumed this works fine (I’m on Firefox on Ubuntu) and it hasn’t changed in several releases (2.4.1-linux2 was when I last changed this packaging, but we were using the same approach as before). So I’m kinda stumped on what else to try with your setup to understand the root cause.