Github-desktop on flakes

ng0177 · July 25, 2025, 10:56am

If I would like to stay with the flakes version of github-desktop, how to fix:

redirection:

also:

git config --global user.name "..."
The program 'git' is not in your PATH. It is provided by several packages.
You can make it available in an ephemeral shell by typing one of the following:
  nix-shell -p git

Thanks!

ng0177 · July 26, 2025, 5:14pm

github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs

github-desktop login is broken

opened 03:49PM - 27 Sep 24 UTC

simonvanbernem

0.kind: bug

### Describe the bug Signing in to github-desktop is not possible. During the l…ogin process you must sign into github in the browser, but after a successful login there, nothing happens. github-desktop just waits for ever, as if it hadn't gotten any notification from the browser that the login was successful. ### Steps To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior: 1. start github-desktop 2. click on Sign in to Github.com 3. in the browser, sign in to github. The resulting page says "You are being redirected to the authorized application." but this never happens. Manually clicking the link does not help either. ### Expected behavior After signing in to github in the browser, github-desktop should be able to proceed with the login. ### Screenshots Initiating the browser login by pressing this button in github-desktop: ![image](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/283e60a1-3659-42ef-9ba7-cd8f3e29fe03) Sign-in in the browser was successful: ![image](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/03f4685b-012a-4143-9d43-8e17a5560a74) The sign-in buttun in github-desktop will forever show this waiting animation: ![image](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/923ff269-99b4-4e47-9e8a-bedb723e4ec7) ### Additional context This issue occurres on a fresh install of the latest recommended x64 nixos iso, with no changes other than the fact that github-desktop is installed. The browser used is firefox. I believe the issue here might be that the link that the browser tries to forward to github-desktop (in my case `x-github-desktop-dev-auth://oauth?code=57775b16ac14ea1112ca&state=1fd7cd98-6b18-2280-9014-1338696a92a3`), fails to reach github-desktop to notify it of the successful login. I have had various issues with clicked links not opening correctly in different applications (e.g. a VSCode fails to open the browser for a sign-in, and manually clicking links in VSCode does nothing). I have tried to dig into this a bit, and xdg-open seems to be involved. When I call xdg-open manually with the link, github-desktop moves to the foreground and gets input focus, as if it had gotten the info it wanted and is ready to proceed, but nothing happens. The command itself yields this: ``` [simon@nixos:~]$ xdg-open x-github-desktop-dev-auth://oauth?code=57775b16ac14ea1112ca&state=1fd7cd98-6b18-2280-9014-1338696a92a3 [1] 7217 [simon@nixos:~]$ [7268:0927/173958.142310:ERROR:angle_platform_impl.cc(44)] Display.cpp:1052 (initialize): ANGLE Display::initialize error 12289: Could not dlopen libGL.so.1: libGL.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory ERR: Display.cpp:1052 (initialize): ANGLE Display::initialize error 12289: Could not dlopen libGL.so.1: libGL.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory [7268:0927/173958.142686:ERROR:gl_display.cc(515)] EGL Driver message (Critical) eglInitialize: Could not dlopen libGL.so.1: libGL.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory [7268:0927/173958.142804:ERROR:gl_display.cc(786)] eglInitialize OpenGL failed with error EGL_NOT_INITIALIZED, trying next display type [7268:0927/173958.143136:ERROR:angle_platform_impl.cc(44)] Display.cpp:1052 (initialize): ANGLE Display::initialize error 12289: Could not dlopen libGL.so.1: libGL.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory ERR: Display.cpp:1052 (initialize): ANGLE Display::initialize error 12289: Could not dlopen libGL.so.1: libGL.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory [7268:0927/173958.143227:ERROR:gl_display.cc(515)] EGL Driver message (Critical) eglInitialize: Could not dlopen libGL.so.1: libGL.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory [7268:0927/173958.143315:ERROR:gl_display.cc(786)] eglInitialize OpenGLES failed with error EGL_NOT_INITIALIZED [7268:0927/173958.143388:ERROR:gl_display.cc(820)] Initialization of all EGL display types failed. [7268:0927/173958.143473:ERROR:gl_ozone_egl.cc(26)] GLDisplayEGL::Initialize failed. [7268:0927/173958.148277:ERROR:angle_platform_impl.cc(44)] Display.cpp:1052 (initialize): ANGLE Display::initialize error 12289: Could not dlopen libGL.so.1: libGL.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory ERR: Display.cpp:1052 (initialize): ANGLE Display::initialize error 12289: Could not dlopen libGL.so.1: libGL.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory [7268:0927/173958.148449:ERROR:gl_display.cc(515)] EGL Driver message (Critical) eglInitialize: Could not dlopen libGL.so.1: libGL.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory [7268:0927/173958.148518:ERROR:gl_display.cc(786)] eglInitialize OpenGL failed with error EGL_NOT_INITIALIZED, trying next display type [7268:0927/173958.148668:ERROR:angle_platform_impl.cc(44)] Display.cpp:1052 (initialize): ANGLE Display::initialize error 12289: Could not dlopen libGL.so.1: libGL.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory ERR: Display.cpp:1052 (initialize): ANGLE Display::initialize error 12289: Could not dlopen libGL.so.1: libGL.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory [7268:0927/173958.148756:ERROR:gl_display.cc(515)] EGL Driver message (Critical) eglInitialize: Could not dlopen libGL.so.1: libGL.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory [7268:0927/173958.148827:ERROR:gl_display.cc(786)] eglInitialize OpenGLES failed with error EGL_NOT_INITIALIZED [7268:0927/173958.148893:ERROR:gl_display.cc(820)] Initialization of all EGL display types failed. [7268:0927/173958.148980:ERROR:gl_ozone_egl.cc(26)] GLDisplayEGL::Initialize failed. [7268:0927/173958.151315:ERROR:viz_main_impl.cc(196)] Exiting GPU process due to errors during initialization ``` ### Notify maintainers @dan4ik605743 ### Metadata Please run `nix-shell -p nix-info --run "nix-info -m"` and paste the result. ```console - system: `"x86_64-linux"` - host os: `Linux 6.6.52, NixOS, 24.05 (Uakari), 24.05.5287.759537f06e69` - multi-user?: `yes` - sandbox: `yes` - version: `nix-env (Nix) 2.18.7` - nixpkgs: `/nix/var/nix/profiles/per-user/root/channels/nixos` ``` --- Add a :+1: [reaction] to [issues you find important]. [reaction]: https://github.blog/2016-03-10-add-reactions-to-pull-requests-issues-and-comments/ [issues you find important]: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+sort%3Areactions-%2B1-desc

describes the issue. The flakes version does not work for me but the standard version does.

waffle8946 · July 26, 2025, 8:38pm

What is “flakes version”? Flakes are unrelated.

ng0177 · July 27, 2025, 10:58am

I am still learning.

environment.systemPackages = with pkgs; [
  #  vim # Do not forget to add an editor to edit configuration.nix! The Nano editor is also installed by default.
  #  wget
   gedit
   git
   github-desktop
   zef
   (pkgs.ollama.override { 
      acceleration = "rocm";
    })
];

worked for me instead of nix profile install nixpkgs#github-desktop. Any ideas?