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[grimwm]

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Type: Bug

This keeps happening, even after I restart VS Code and starting a new chat session. It happens in both Insider edition and stable.

Extension version: 0.27.2025040402 VS Code version: Code - Insiders 1.100.0-insider (c7ea9f8f6c08db68cd63dabe8edfc8555904ee42, 2025-04-04T05:04:35.646Z) OS version: Windows_NT x64 10.0.26100 Modes: Remote OS version: Linux x64 5.15.133.1-microsoft-standard-WSL2

Logs

Info: Can't use the Electron fetcher in this environment.
Info: Using the Node fetch fetcher.
Info: Initializing Git extension service.
Info: Successfully activated the vscode.git extension.
Info: Enablement state of the vscode.git extension: true.
Info: Successfully registered Git commit message provider.
Trace: CodeSearchRepoTracker.tryInitGitRepos(): started
Trace: CodeSearchRepoTracker.tryInitGitRepos(): Git service not initialized. Waiting for init signal.
Debug: [context keys] Updating context keys.
Info: Logged in as grimwm
Trace: CodeSearchRepoTracker.tryInitGitRepos(): Found initial repos: [file:///home/grimwm/repos/finance/dow/Protos,file:///home/grimwm/repos/finance/dow].
Trace: CodeSearchRepoTracker.openGitRepo(file:///home/grimwm/repos/finance/dow/Protos)
Trace: CodeSearchRepoTracker.openGitRepo(file:///home/grimwm/repos/finance/dow)
Trace: CodeSearchRepoTracker.tryInitGitRepos(): Complete
Info: Got Copilot token for grimwm
Debug: [LanguageModelAccess] UPDATING language models
Trace: Resolving embedding model
Info: copilot token chat_enabled: true, sku: copilot_for_business_seat
Info: GitHub.vscode-pull-request-github extension is not yet activated.
Info: Registering default platform agent...
Debug: onDidChangeSessionsHandler has token: true
Debug: [context keys] Updating context keys.
Info: Fetched model metadata in 743ms a3f55420-e27a-4be9-94f2-4f481f87b553
Trace: Resolved embedding model
Info: activationBlocker from 'languageModelAccess' took for 4026ms
Trace: Resolving chat model
Trace: Resolved chat model
Warning: Copilot preview features, including agent mode, are disabled by organizational policy. Learn more: https://aka.ms/github-copilot-org-enable-features
Trace: Resolving embedding model
Trace: Resolved embedding model
Debug: [LanguageModelAccess] ADDED language model gpt-3.5-turbo
Debug: [LanguageModelAccess] ADDED language model gpt-4o-mini
Debug: [LanguageModelAccess] ADDED language model gpt-4
Debug: [LanguageModelAccess] ADDED language model gpt-4-0125-preview
Debug: [LanguageModelAccess] ADDED language model gpt-4o
Debug: [LanguageModelAccess] ADDED language model o1
Debug: [LanguageModelAccess] ADDED language model o3-mini
Debug: [LanguageModelAccess] ADDED language model claude-3.5-sonnet
Debug: [LanguageModelAccess] ADDED language model claude-3.7-sonnet
Debug: [LanguageModelAccess] ADDED language model claude-3.7-sonnet-thought
Debug: [LanguageModelAccess] ADDED language model gemini-2.0-flash-001
Debug: [LanguageModelAccess] DID UPDATE language models
Debug: [LanguageModelAccess] UPDATING language models
Trace: Resolving chat model
Trace: Resolved chat model
Debug: [LanguageModelAccess] DID UPDATE language models
Debug: [context keys] Window state change. Needs offline check: false, active: true, focused: false.
Debug: [context keys] Window state change. Needs offline check: false, active: true, focused: true.

System Info

Item	Value
CPUs	13th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-13700H (20 x 2918)
GPU Status	2d_canvas: enabled canvas_oop_rasterization: enabled_on direct_rendering_display_compositor: disabled_off_ok gpu_compositing: enabled multiple_raster_threads: enabled_on opengl: enabled_on rasterization: enabled raw_draw: disabled_off_ok skia_graphite: disabled_off video_decode: enabled video_encode: enabled vulkan: disabled_off webgl: enabled webgl2: enabled webgpu: enabled webnn: disabled_off
Load (avg)	undefined
Memory (System)	15.75GB (1.80GB free)
Process Argv	--crash-reporter-id 7d927978-a07e-47bb-b6a6-ab4602ce2dfd
Screen Reader	no
VM	0%

Item	Value
Remote	WSL: Ubuntu-22.04
OS	Linux x64 5.15.133.1-microsoft-standard-WSL2
CPUs	13th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-13700H (20 x 0)
Memory (System)	7.63GB (4.44GB free)
VM	0%

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[bpasero]

Sorry to hear that. Can you set chat.setupFromDialog to false, restart and try again? What do you see?

[ArtyMcFly]

Setting chat.setupFromDialog to false and restarting for me resulted in the issue being described over here where my account is signed in to github, but chat keeps showing me I need to sign in

Screenshot showing I do get signed in

Screenshot showing what I see in the CHAT window

[bpasero]

In that case entirely signing out, restarting and signing in again, does not help?

[ArtyMcFly]

Thanks for the intel, @bpasero !! I appreciate the assist 🤞 we'll be able to sort something out.

I'm afraid that didn't help. Signing out, restarting, and then signing back in results in a same state as described above. To nix any ambiguity, here's what I see signing out and back in:

Which pops open the following views:

Opening the link results in seeing the Sign in with Github screenshot I posted earlier.

[bpasero]

@ArtyMcFly any chance you are using multiple GH accounts in VS Code?

@TylerLeonhardt maybe you could also chime in with some auth smarts.

[ArtyMcFly]

@ArtyMcFly any chance you are using multiple GH accounts in VS Code?

@TylerLeonhardt maybe you could also chime in with some auth smarts.

I saw some folks on the linked thread advised a couple of things, I was able to get this working 🎉

I started looking for some error logs and found some

[info] [auth] Invalid copilot token: missing token: 403

I was getting a bunch of these, found a few recent stack overflow posts and some combination of the following did it for me:

1. Verified I was on the correct account for Github
2. Logged out, uninstalled the extensions and then restarted my machine
3. reinstalled the extensions, added the following to my settings.json (may have restarted VS Code again here)

    "remote.extensionKind": {
        "GitHub.copilot": [ "ui" ],
        "GitHub.copilot-chat": ["ui"],
    }

I am failing to find which tab had this intel (otherwise I would link it) so going off of memory here. I guess there is ui and then there is workspace for these options. The 403 missing tokens allegedly comes from WSL failing on some callout and the ui does something on the localhost, working some networking magic between WSL and Windows.

4. on Github I went through and toggled some of the options for Copilot
5. I re-signed in - something worked this go around and I'm in.

Not certain which steps did it for me, maybe something sticks out and someone can confirm?

Thanks @bpasero for working through this with me!

[TylerLeonhardt]

that setting forces the Copilot extensions to run on the client side (so the Windows side) instead of WSL side... if there's some weird proxy behavior with WSL, that could explain it... if you get rid of that setting (thus allowing Copilot to run on the WSL side again) does it fail?

[ArtyMcFly]

Removing the : ["ui"] setting and restarting VS code resulted in the "Sign in to Github" message occurring again. Albeit, I'm seeing a slightly different error this time around 🤷 Same manifestation where logging in via the links appear to do nothing.

2025-04-21 08:16:53.653 [info] [certificates] Removed 1 expired certificates
2025-04-21 08:17:10.605 [error] [default] Error sending telemetry FetchError: No credentials were supplied, or the credentials were unavailable or inaccessible: No Kerberos credentials available (default cache: FILE:/tmp/krb5cc_1000)
    at fetch (/home/weborg/.vscode-server/extensions/github.copilot-1.303.0/node_modules/@adobe/helix-fetch/src/fetch/index.js:99:11)
    at cachingFetch (/home/weborg/.vscode-server/extensions/github.copilot-1.303.0/node_modules/@adobe/helix-fetch/src/fetch/index.js:288:16)
    at c2.fetch (/home/weborg/.vscode-server/extensions/github.copilot-1.303.0/lib/src/network/helix.ts:94:22) {
  type: 'system',
  _name: 'FetchError',
  code: undefined,
  errno: undefined,
  erroredSysCall: undefined
}

Adding the following again and restarting VS Code allowed copilot to work again.

        "GitHub.copilot": [ "ui" ],
        "GitHub.copilot-chat": ["ui"],

Seeing the following logs:

2025-04-21 08:20:17.704 [info] [certificates] Removed 9 expired certificates
2025-04-21 08:20:18.081 [info] [fetcher] Using Helix fetcher.
2025-04-21 08:20:18.081 [info] [code-referencing] Public code references are enabled.
2025-04-21 08:20:18.278 [info] [fetcher] Using Helix fetcher.

[TylerLeonhardt]

@chrmarti some interesting proxy stuff with remote here

[rexsllemel]

@chrmarti some interesting proxy stuff with remote here

I bet it's not proxy issue. I will try to reinstall vs code the see what will be the case since I'm not using any vpn nor proxy.

[mdeberts]

"remote.extensionKind": {
    "GitHub.copilot": [ "ui" ],
    "GitHub.copilot-chat": ["ui"],
}

solved my problem, it's working again. But now its running on my local machine if I understand correctly. Does this have any down sides?

[rexsllemel]

I fixed mine via uninstalling GitHub Copilot extension, restarted the vscode then install again via Set Up copilot at the bottom copilot icon

IDK if installing this way could fix the problem or maybe reinstalling github copilot could fix the issue

[mahtaao]

I commented on #7860. For me the issue was only flashing in Insiders every now and then and would go away in new sessions but today Copilot doesn't work anymore. Reinstalling, restarting, switching versions don't help. I switched to the stable version and for now there's no issues there.

[chrmarti]

@ArtyMcFly Please check the output of F1 > Developer: GitHub Copilot Chat Diagnostics while connected to WSL in VS Code and append it here.

[vs-code-engineering[bot]]

This issue has been closed automatically because it needs more information and has not had recent activity. See also our issue reporting guidelines.

Happy Coding!

[std4453]

The issues marked as duplicate of this one has had recent activity, I think this should be reopened.