when executing a git command that needs GitHub authorization it fails

[martinkooij]

gcm-diagnose.log
Which version of GCM are you using?

2.0.632+478753bbb7

Which Git host provider are you trying to connect to?

• GitHub

Can you access the remote repository directly in the browser using the remote URL?

From a terminal, run git remote -v to see your remote URL.

• Yes
• No, I get a permission error
• No, for a different reason - please describe

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Expected behavior

I am authenticated and my Git operation completes successfully.

Actual behavior
executing a git push gives:

fatal: Failed to open secret service session [0x13]
fatal: No such secret item at path: /org/freedesktop/secrets/collection/login/1
Username for 'https://github.com': 

Logs

Attached

[dscho]

I guess this is on Linux, given the path /org/freedesktop/? Can you share a bit more about your configuration?

[martinkooij]

Thank you for reaching out.

yes: Linux Mint on an old laptop... OSType: Linux
OSVersion: Linux martin-mint 5.4.0-92-generic #103-Ubuntu SMP Fri Nov 26 16:13:00 UTC 2021 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux.

gcm-diagnose.log

Most information on my setup can be found in the attached log file at the top line of my original Post and just above. I am a bit out of my wits because with seahorse I can see that the collection does not exist, but there are password collection in my home directory

[dscho]

Didn't you have to configure GCM to use libsecret specifically?

[dscho]

Also, since this seems to be a libsecret-related problem more than a GCM-related one, I allow myself to point you to https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/265503/how-do-i-fix-no-such-secret-collection-at-path-for-gnome-keyring-and-arch-l as potentially containing hints helping you to resolve the problem.

[martinkooij]

@dscho : Indeed I configured with

git config --global credential.credentialStore secretservice

as per documentation https://github.com/GitCredentialManager/git-credential-manager/blob/main/docs/credstores.md

[dscho]

As per https://github.com/GitCredentialManager/git-credential-manager/blob/main/docs/credstores.md#freedesktoporg-secret-service-api, have you tried looking at things using secret-tool or seahorse?

[martinkooij]

yes seahorse gives an empty keyring where I would expect it to work. Also seahorse gives a warning. Mmmm.. I need to delve further into this.

[martinkooij]

Ok, I retried by unconfiguring secretservice and using pass. That fails as well, it keeps asking for password. So it seems to be somewhere else, not only related to libsecret.

Yesterday it worked one time (I got the popup fro github from secretservice), but now nothing concerning these GitHub CLI authentications is working anymore, I suspect there is a deamon not running and git doesn't seem to recognize it should trigger gcm; or maybe one step later. However, running out of time now, will try one reboot, and if that fails, will pick up later this week. Thanks for reaching out!!

[martinkooij]

A remove, reboot and reinstall got it working!