Failing to authenticate on new wsl setup #6884
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Hi, thanks for reporting and sorry for the trouble. I have never seen this error before. The server error indicates that the authorization flow was polling the API too frequently, but that should never be the case because we get the polling interval (usually 5 seconds) from the server in the first place. Does this happen every time? You can do |
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Tried with the debugging and it worked this time, which is totally not going to help with any sort of diagnostics 😅 |
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Ouch haha, well thanks for trying 😅 Might have been a hiccup with rate limiting on the server, too. You can try re-authenticating a few times with |
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This solution doesn't work |
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same, and using the above |
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I made a token instead and used that, but I'd rather not |
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fwiw, I just had the same issue and running with |
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thanks this works on my laptop as well lol, I believe it's a bug |
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I tried setting that env var but it still fails. |
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similar situation, I'm now trying ubuntu 22.04 instead of 20.04 to see if it works |
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I just encountered this issue with gh 2.37.0 on freshly installed Ubuntu 22.04. My first attempt at
It appears the API is still waiting for me to paste in the first one-time code (which I no longer have). A way to cancel pending authorization request(s) would be nice. |
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Please check your clock in WSL environment. |
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Setting the time zone worked for me on nixOS |
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This is a problem with wrong time on WSL. To fix it, run this command: sudo hwclock -sor sudo ntpdate time.windows.com(See microsoft/WSL#5324 (comment)) If you have Ubuntu 24.04 or for some reason you don't have this command, you can install it: sudo apt install util-linux-extraIf the time is still incorrect, you may need to change the time zone: sudo timedatectl set-timezone <your timezone>You can view the list of time zones using this command: timedatectl list-timezonesAfter that, synchronize the time again and then everything should work 😉 |
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Read #6884 (comment), changing the time zone also helped this user, and I made a detailed instruction on how to do it |
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Also #6884 (comment) |
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I appreciate that it's frustrating to get thumbs down emojis, particularly without any further context. However, this is not the kind of communication we find acceptable on the project. You can either edit it yourself, or I will delete it. For what it's worth, most of the time when people thumbs down answers in this way, it's not "dislike" but a quick, non-spammy way to indicate "didn't address my issue". I appreciate you taking the time to write up and share your original investigation with the community. |
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Okay, but I don't think it's smart to dislike because "it didn't help me" or "it's some weird decision" If you think dislike is a quick way to say that it didn't help you, then why doesn't he dislike other answers that didn't help him?? |
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I'm more than sure he disliked it just because someone already disliked me It turns out to be easy to manipulate him... |
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We're running into the same issue. Resetting clock doesn't work. Running with debug doesn't work. Steps to reproduce:
When running with debug we can see that the call is executed twice while we're doing things in the browser. But then once we've completed everything in the browser. We get the too many attempts... Full command I'm trying to run for completeness: Ubuntu 22.04 jammy installed using WSL |
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I ran into this problem today and found a simple workaround.
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This workaround worked for me too on Ubuntu 24.10 (in a Virtualbox). |
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This worked for me! |
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This is the only thing that worked for me as well, after trying several other suggested solutions here and other sources. |
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Worked for me too |
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This worked for mee too |
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Could we escalate this to an issue considering there's a reproducible case now and it seems like most WSL installs are impacted? The issue gets even worse if you have multiple GH accounts logged in, as it adds an extra step to the process. The known workaround proposed by @ikeyan and "just being fast enough" are not a solution to the problem. We're planning to use it as part of a large setup script that prepares a local environment for the user. The current timeout is too short for the average person (you need to basically speedrun logging in), and having to run the script multiple times may cause issues with commands that have already executed before. |
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Most likely this is being tracked by #9370 If it were reproducible 100% of the time that would be great. I was not able to reproduce this on WSL sadly. |
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For me the solution was that Ubuntu came with git installed, but a rather outdated version, and upgrading the version fixes it |
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Hello everyone, Tried almost all the solutions above, none worked. |
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This is the only solution that worked for me after testing debug flag, date, and a few others. |
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Random thought and a bit of a long shot, but could it have any correlation to the "mirrored" networking type? Is anyone experiencing the issue without mirrored networking? Seems weird that it only affects WSL2 is all, even with the latest git version (2.47.0). |
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Well, I'm not sure about that config file because I was unable to notice any changes when testing it out but I did check the GUI config and it shows the networking mode as mirrored: 
I am in parallels, which may have some impact as well: |
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@dgibbard-cisco I was running mirrored networking on my WSL installation and I was having this problem. However, I see this comment says I tried turning mirrored mode back ON and the problem didn't come back (I did |
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hmm i received |
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I am not able to log in, I am getting these issues: $ gh auth login
? What account do you want to log into? GitHub.com
? What is your preferred protocol for Git operations on this host? HTTPS
? Authenticate Git with your GitHub credentials? Yes
? How would you like to authenticate GitHub CLI? Login with a web browser
! First copy your one-time code: 830D-A74C
Press Enter to open github.com in your browser...
gzip: stdin: not in gzip format # Error here# and when I later exit out of it Can't open history |
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Quick update, I got it working with a workaround
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@hrithiqball did it fix yours too? |
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i just switch to linux fully. lol |
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managed to get it to work by doing these steps on wsl2 ubuntu 24.04.4, gh 2.89.0 :
it seems to work despite the error. hope this helps someone. |
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i tested this on another pc, exporting BROWSER="asdasd" instead, and following the same steps. still works. |
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I'm in the process of setting up a new machine but in doing so I'm failing to authenticate with
gh auth login.Here's the terminal output:
In the browser though the auth process goes through correctly, I entered the code, I approved access to my account/orgs, and I was presented with the success screen, only to find my terminal having the error.
I appear to be on the latest release:
And the WSL version is:
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