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Error authenticating/opening browser on Raspberry PI #479
Description
Describe the bug
Fails on raspberry pi 4 with these errors:
pi@raspberrypi:~/projects/noise $ gh issue list
Notice: authentication required
Press Enter to open github.com in your browser...
[7763:7977:0216/184828.502272:ERROR:object_proxy.cc(632)] Failed to call method: org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties.Get: object_path= /org/freedesktop/UPower: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.freedesktop.UPower was not provided by any .service files
[7763:7977:0216/184828.503064:ERROR:object_proxy.cc(632)] Failed to call method: org.freedesktop.UPower.GetDisplayDevice: object_path= /org/freedesktop/UPower: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.freedesktop.UPower was not provided by any .service files
[7763:7977:0216/184828.503901:ERROR:object_proxy.cc(632)] Failed to call method: org.freedesktop.UPower.EnumerateDevices: object_path= /org/freedesktop/UPower: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.freedesktop.UPower was not provided by any .service files
[7808:7808:0216/184829.246294:ERROR:gl_surface_presentation_helper.cc(259)] GetVSyncParametersIfAvailable() failed for 1 times!
Compiled from source as instructions said. Here is the version output:
gh version 0.5.5-2-g10ea161 (2020-02-16)
https://github.com/cli/cli/releases/latest
Steps to reproduce the behavior
Try to authenticate in the browser.
Expected vs actual behavior
It should authenticate, not error and halt.
Activity
mislav commentedon Feb 17, 2020
Thank you for reporting!
To open the browser on Linux, gh uses
xdg-open, which for your platform tries to open Chromium, which fails with the aforementioned error. I'm not sure why Chromium fails, but I'm sure that unless you're running a desktop environment on your Raspberry PI and can interact with a graphical browser, you won't be able to authenticate this way even if Chromium worked.This issue has the same root cause as #286, even though they appear very different.
To work around this for now, you may try the following:
gh <command>in a context of a GitHub repository) on a computer where you're running a desktop environment;~/.config/gh/config.ymlfile from this machine to your Raspberry PI.Let us know if it worked!
[-]GetVSyncParametersIfAvailable() failed for 1 times![/-][+]Error authenticating/opening browser on Raspberry PI[/+]tierninho commentedon Mar 25, 2020
Closing as it is a stale issue and a workaround was provided.