vscode: Turning on Settings Sync with GitHub results in a HTTP 403 response

Does this issue occur when all extensions are disabled?: Yes

When selecting GitHub as the account for VS Code Settings Sync functionality, even after logging in correctly, VS Code presents an Authentication Error.

2023-06-30 17:58:47.281 [info] Using settings sync service https://vscode-sync.trafficmanager.net/
2023-06-30 17:58:47.281 [info] Auto Sync is disabled.
2023-06-30 17:59:54.509 [info] Sync started.
2023-06-30 17:59:55.072 [info] Request failed {"url":"https://vscode-sync.trafficmanager.net/v1/manifest","status":403,"execution-id":"5988342e-c84f-4cbe-8d2f-ead7b7afbd44","operation-id":"5e0ba65b4b694af38907bf3e0bf4950c"}
2023-06-30 17:59:55.072 [info] Settings Sync auth token failed github false Forbidden

VS Code Version: 1.79.2 (Universal)
OS Version: macOS Ventura 13.4.1

Steps to Reproduce:

Open VS Code
Select “Turn on Settings Sync…”
Select GitHub as provider
Login to GitHub
Go back to VS Code

About this issue

Original URL
State: closed
Created a year ago
Reactions: 11
Comments: 17 (6 by maintainers)

Most upvoted comments

This should be resolved in about 30 min

joyceerhl on Jun 30, 2023

@brunovieira97 can you confirm it’s working for you now?

Just did what @ericvolp12 recommended and it worked for me too! Thank you very much.

brunovieira97 on Jul 1, 2023

@tyriar has also purged any bad cached tokens on the service side so you should not need to sign out and back in with GitHub anymore. Thanks everyone for reporting and thanks @jkeech and @osortega for the fix!

joyceerhl on Jul 1, 2023

Just worked for me, had to log-out of GitHub in VSCode and restart VSCode though (it was giving a 403 otherwise).

ericvolp12 on Jul 1, 2023

@brunovieira97 can you confirm it’s working for you now?

jkeech on Jul 1, 2023