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unable to complete authentication flow from browser

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Describe the bug

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Version & OS

Version: 2.9.9 Linux RC 2 OS: Ubuntu

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Steps to reproduce the behavior

Go to ‘Sing in to GitHub.com’
Click on ‘it’
login in GitHub
not login in the GitHub Desktop

Expected behavior

It should sign in to GitHub Desktop and allow me to look at and work with my projects.

Actual behavior

It does not allow to log in, in linux it only stays loading and even if you log in in the browser it does not log in to the program.

Screenshots

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Issue Analytics

State:
Created a year ago
Reactions:3
Comments:13 (6 by maintainers)

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shiftkeycommented, Apr 3, 2022

@willianholtz there’s extra details which are important here that would help me to confirm whether you have this same issue or whether you have something like https://github.com/shiftkey/desktop/issues/677#issuecomment-1086902082 - please check the log files using the note in my previous comment

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shiftkeycommented, Apr 8, 2022

Closing this out due to inactivity - the latest 2.9.12-linux4 release should fix this issue, based on what others have reported in other issues

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