vscode: Sign in failed: FetchError: request failed, reason: getaddrinfo EAI_AGAIN

Issue

I’m getting this error trying to sign in GitHub on VS Code:

Sign in failed: FetchError: request to https://vscode-auth.github.com/token?code=<code>&state=<state> failed, reason: getaddrinfo EAI_AGAIN vscode-auth.github.com

2021-07-17_13-44

Additional infos

Idk the reason, but i can give you more info about:

OS: Arch Linux
Kernel: 5.12.15-arch1-1
Network: ethernet with neither proxy nor custom dns
VS Code Version: 1.58.0-1
VS Code Marketplace version: 1.54.3-4 (added manually due to an issue that blocked me from fetching extensions on VS Code)

About this issue

Original URL
State: closed
Created 3 years ago
Reactions: 2
Comments: 21 (2 by maintainers)

Most upvoted comments

Same error here, on Ubuntu Linux

PeterQiu0516 on Jul 19, 2021

I’m getting the same issue - restarting does not affect the outcome. Happens in both VSCode on windows as a regular extension, and when VSCode is running attached to WSL and the extension are installed via WSL.

sxwebster on Mar 29, 2022

I am getting the same issue with GitHub Copilot. Any solutions?!

Restarting VSCode after the installation solved the problem for me.

ThePresence on Dec 22, 2021

Docker was really responsible for DNS fail…

A simple Docker restart did not work for me. Instead I did :

Stop docker : systemctl stop docker
Sign in VsCode with Github … => signin OK this time
Start docker again : systemctl start docker

rebecamurillo on Jul 26, 2021

it ded

Pretty sure I wound up finding out that whatever I was looking at when I posted lacked proxy support

sxwebster on May 13, 2022