No sign in possible from Visual Studio Code

Ralf Longwitz 1

I installed VSCode on Linux (Debian on Chromebook). Everything seems to be working fine, but I cannot sign in to anything. Not sync with Microsoft or Github, nor Jira or Bitbucket. Clicking the respective buttons, nothing happens at all. No error message.
Google found many similar issues, but all had error messages. I have none. Just nothing happening.
Any idea? Thanks!

Yuri Argolo 1 Reputation point

2022-03-30T11:40:08.077+00:00

You just need to do one more step. First you choose the option to log in, it will open Chrome on the side of Chrome OS, log in normally, but do not choose the option that will appear on the screen, Which is the "Open in..." option. Cancel, copy the authorization token that is in the middle part of the page in a blue square, go back to Visual Studio. Click Signing in to GitHub.com (or Microsoft)... In the lower left corner (Status Bar). A space will open for you to type at the top of the screen, paste the token and that's it.

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James Hamil 26,026 Reputation points Microsoft Employee

2022-03-14T18:10:45.71+00:00

Hi @Ralf Longwitz , is this the button you're using to sign in?

if so when you attempt to sign, does it open your browser? Are you able to sign in there, where it says "you have signed in, you may close this window?" And then you're still not signed in in VS Code? Or does nothing come up? I'm trying to see where this breaks.

You could always try re-installing VS Code too to see if it works, couldn't hurt!

Please let me know and I can help you further.

Best,
James
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Ralf Longwitz 1 Reputation point

2022-04-01T06:45:47.873+00:00

Thanks for your replies. I tried the same thing again, and this time it worked. Entered my Hotmail login and got connected. I have no idea what was different. But the other day I tried several times, searched for solutions, no way. Clicking on the sign in link did absolutely nothing.

Hemant Kumbhar 5 Reputation points

2023-02-15T21:25:06.31+00:00

I tried reinstalling. still not working. Disabled firewall too

Ade Iming 5 Reputation points

2023-05-11T02:31:19.2233333+00:00

same here with ver 1.78.1
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Rishikesh Joshi 1 Reputation point

2022-12-14T11:03:53.86+00:00

@James Hamil - it worked with suggested solution. Thanks!
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Ade Iming 5 Reputation points

2023-05-11T02:35:12.1766667+00:00

if i try to install in sandbox win 11, it works fine. but when I uninstalled and reinstalled, it didn't solve the problem.
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