An unknown error ocurred

[zhuziyi1989]

Is this how to solve this problem?

[S1MB10T3]

Yeah, I just got this issue when I tried to use it on a new Ubuntu machine.

EDIT:
The error only appears on forked repos

[rsese]

@zhuziyi1989 - do you remember the URL you tried to pin? You can also get it from your .git/config file from the atomPrUrl entry (feel free to mask the account/repo name if you want).

Also, it's super helpful if you can fill out the issue template since it contains a lot of baseline information (e.g. what version of Atom are you running? Which operating system are you on? Can you reproduce in safe mode?).

[rsese]

@Rantahu - so you're trying to pin a URL for a pull request in a forked repository and you get that error? If you can share specific steps to reproduce, that would be helpful.

[mzannoni]

I have the exact same issue. The GitHub tab in Atom (1.18.0, Fedora 26) will just act as shown in the video above. If I click "Try Again", it goes back to the error message. It's like this since I've installed Atom on this Fedora machine.
The Git tab, on the other hand, works fine.

[rsese]

@mzannoni can you confirm that you get to that state after entering a pull request to pin? Also, do you see any errors in dev tools console (Window: Toggle Dev Tools then click the Console tab)?

[aritaku]

I have same issue on Atom version(1.18.0). On Dev mode panel, show error that

Server request for query `Pr` failed for the following reasons:

1. Could not resolve to a Repository with the name '[MY_GITHUB_REPOSITORY_NAME]'.
   agment F4 on Query {_repository1CJN9J:repository(owner:"MY_GITHUB_REPOSITORY_OWNER_NAME
                       ^^^                       

[mzannoni]

@rsese I think I first got the error just after installation, when I entered the token from GitHub website to link the account.
Regarding the errors in Dev Tools Console, I see exactly what's just been reported above by @aritaku.

[xingkongliang]

I run this:
git config --unset branch.master.atomprurl

[mzannoni]

Exactly the same issue on another machine with Ubuntu 16.04 and Atom 1.18.
It happened just after I entered the login token and clicked "Login".
Same output in the Console of the Dev Tools.

On this Ubuntu machine the Github tab was working correctly before, until the last Atom update, I think. But I have this machine since a few years and I'm sure it was working before.

[JFAmprimoz]

I think I have the same issue, happening right after I first tried to connect recently installed Atom to a github repo and entered the token.

It was the master branch of a repo I had just initialized and added a remote for on Github in the CLI. Had one empty text file committed. I'm new to Atom/Github so I was just seeing how things work.

The only unusual thing I did before having the error was that I had an Atom project open with another folder that had a local git repo. I either removed the old folder then added the new one, or added the new one then removed the old one, I can't remember which.

I'm running Atom 1.18.0 on Ubuntu 16.04.2 on VirtualBox 5.1.22 r115126 (Qt5.6.2) and this is the first time I've tried connecting the preview pane, so I could certainly be doing something wrong or have a problem at my end. It seems like an identical situation/outcome to those above so I thought I'd share my case.

[S1MB10T3]

@rsese Yeah the url I have in the config is the forked repo. I went through the same process as @mzannoni with the same os and atom build.

[rsese]

I played with this more and found I could reproduce if the repository I'm working with was private and the token used to login didn't have the right permissions to access the repository (as described in #922 (comment)).

Can folks running into this try the command mentioned in the comment I linked to above to see if the token you're logging in with has access to the repository you're working with? E.g.:

curl https://api.github.com/repos/OWNER/REPO -H "Authorization: token TOKEN"

[mzannoni]

I'm not quite sure we're talking about the same thing here... or at least, you're maybe given for granted that I'm an Atom coding expert.
I don't know how the token relate to a specific repo... Namely, the mentioned token is generated by a GitHub webpage that I reached with a link from the Atom GitHub tab when I wanted to login the first time, and I wouldn't know where to find this TOKEN again to be used in the above mentioned command. I believe I need some more guidance here...
Regarding the comment mentione, I don't have an "atomPrUrl" entry in any of the .git/config files of any of the repo I'm working with.
Again, I'm sorry if I can't really be helpful here, but I think we're talking about different tokens maybe... Is there a way to "reset" the GitHub tab in Atom so that I'm directed again to GitHub website to get a new token, for example? So that I can do from a different repo, for example. This issue with the GitHub tab is exactly the same with all the repo I have.

[JFAmprimoz]

I'm having a very similar experience. To my recollection, there are explicit instructions that one can't go and look up the token in question again?

Same goes for not having an atomPr Url entry in .git/config