vscode: Error while starting Settings Sync: No authentication provider 'github' is currently registered

On Mac, when I try to sync settings, which requires login first, I get this error: Error while starting Settings Sync: No authentication provider 'github' is currently registered. Which is quite similar to this one. expect @carlocardella seems already get the Github logged in.

Both of the auto-redirect and manually copy paste generated token did not work. I’ve already checked Keychain access, seems like there is nothing related to vscode. Any idea on how to solve this? please.

_Originally posted by @PulsGarney in https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issue_comments/705649913_

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I have the same issue at Linux

yusufdeepwork on Oct 8, 2020

I had the same issue with Ubuntu after install vscode via snap. Copy the token and remove the trailing white space at start and final from before use it worked for me.

jyeray on Oct 18, 2020

I see the same error on a fresh install of the latest .deb, version 1.51.1, on Ubuntu 18.04.

https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/108304 can be fixed by:

rm -rf ~/.vscode ~/.vscode-server ~/.config/Code

Edit: I could solve this page’s issue by switching default browser to Chrome temporarily–it wasn’t working in firefox for some reason.

tbenst on Nov 30, 2020