"Sign in to GitHub" prompt to enable GitHub Copilot on every VS Code launch

Question

very time I launch VS Code, I am asked to Sign in to GitHub to enable GitHub Copilot suggestions. regardless of doing that many times.

I'm a bit confused because I also have GitLens extension which works fine.

Anyone else faced something similar?

---

OS: Ubuntu 20.04.3 Focal Fosa

Answer 1

In my case (Archlinux) I hadn't installed a keyring storage thingo - similar to @Delta.

So install it:

pacman -S gnome-keyring

And make sure that it's launched when your log in:

dbus-update-activation-environment --all
gnome-keyring-daemon --start --components=secrets

There appear to be lots of different causes/fixes mentioned in various places on the web, so if this doesn't fix it, keep browsing :)