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I am a newbie in coding and I recently bought a Chromebook and tried to clone my private repository of my GitHub account on Microsoft Visual Studio Code and I faced this error:

Failed to authenticate to Git remote

And this is the terminal:

remote: Repository not found. fatal: Authentication failed for 'https://github.com/myAccount/myRepository.git/'

And it seems like Visual Studio code cannot even find the repository when I type in the name of it. It is weird, because my Visual Code is synced with my GitHub account so it should find out my private repository.

I used to work on my old laptop (Windows 10) and it worked, and it works fine even now! I clone, commit, push, etc. and there is absolutely no problem.

However, I bought a Chromebook recently which supports Linux (Beta), and installed Visual Studio code and tried to use GitHub.

I followed this instruction and had absolutely no error or any problem until 07:00: GitHub on Visual Studio Code on a Chromebook and Linux

And then I got the error as I described.

This is what I have done:

  • Updated and upgraded Linux
  • Installed Python 3
  • Installed Git
  • Configured Git with my own username and useremail (double checked)
  • Installed gnome-keyring and set my password
  • Successfully logged in on GitHub in Microsoft Visual Studio Code

These are what I have done to solve this problem:

  • I reinstalled Python, Git, and gnome-keyring several times.
  • I formatted my Chromebook and tried the same several times from the scratch.

More information

  • The repository is private.
  • I tried cloning another private repository that I have made and it did not work.
  • I tried cloning a random public repository and it did work!!
  • As I said, it works perfectly with my old laptop (Windows 10).
  • Same GitHub account, same repository.
  • I did not change anything related to GitHub. I did not change the password, email address, username or whatever.
  • I double-checked my spellings of the username and the email address. There is no doubt that I typed wrong username or email address.

I think it is related to not being able to access to GitHub from my Visual Studio code. Would it be the problem of gnome-keyring, or something else?

Peter Mortensen
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  • Yes, the underlying reason is probably the same and *[Fix for "fatal: Authentication failed for"](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/69979522/fix-for-fatal-authentication-failed-for)* is supposed to be the canonical question. – Peter Mortensen Nov 17 '21 at 13:41
  • Does this answer your question? [Fix for "fatal: Authentication failed for"](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/69979522/fix-for-fatal-authentication-failed-for) – Dalija Prasnikar Nov 17 '21 at 14:20
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    @DalijaPrasnikar Oh my, YES it worked!! Thank you so much. it is solved by just installing an older version of Visual Code. I still wonder why it did not work, but at least it is solved. Thank you again!! – France_is_bacon Nov 17 '21 at 18:44

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