Copilot CLI not recognizing neither keychain or keyring on WSL2 Ubuntu 24

[Wesztman]

Describe the bug

I've installed both gnome-keyring and keychain using apt, but I still get message about none of these found 🤔

Affected version

0.0.327

Steps to reproduce the behavior

Install gnome-keyring and keychain using sudo apt install.
Run copilot CLI and /login

Expected behavior

Copilot CLI should recognize that keyring or keychain is installed.

Additional context

WSL2, Ubuntu24

[SteveSandersonMS]

Sorry about that.

@devm33 Do you have any tips on diagnosing this, or if there is a known issue here?

[andyfeller]

Thank you for raising this up, @Wesztman! 🙇 I'd like to figure out what is different about your WSL Ubuntu 24.04 setup versus my fresh install which is receiving the default keyring pop up.

Demo

$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description:    Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS
Release:        24.04
Codename:       noble

$ sudo apt list libsecret-1-0 libsecret-1-dev libsecret-common gnome-keyring gnome-keyring-pkcs11 seahorse
Listing... Done
gnome-keyring-pkcs11/noble,now 46.1-2build1 amd64 [installed,automatic]
gnome-keyring/noble,now 46.1-2build1 amd64 [installed]
libsecret-1-0/noble,now 0.21.4-1build3 amd64 [installed]
libsecret-1-dev/noble,now 0.21.4-1build3 amd64 [installed]
libsecret-common/noble,now 0.21.4-1build3 all [installed,automatic]
seahorse/noble 43.0-3build2 amd64

When I first logged in, I see Gnome keyring prompting me to create the default keyring:

Afterwards, copilot saved the credential to the keystore:

[Wesztman]

@andyfeller

That's very interesting, I get no popup 🤔 I looked into setting default password manually in the terminal, but it's not very straight fw..

I also installed pass but still no luck.

No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description:    Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS
Release:        24.04
Codename:       noble

gnome-keyring-pkcs11/noble,now 46.1-2build1 amd64 [installed,automatic]
gnome-keyring/noble,now 46.1-2build1 amd64 [installed]
libsecret-1-0/noble,now 0.21.4-1build3 amd64 [installed,automatic]
libsecret-1-dev/noble 0.21.4-1build3 amd64
libsecret-common/noble,now 0.21.4-1build3 all [installed,automatic]
seahorse/noble 43.0-3build2 amd64

I wonder why I don't get any popup 🤔 will look into that

[Wesztman]

Seems like seahorse was the missing piece 😄 installing it made the popup pop up ✌️ now copilot seems to be able to add the key 😊

[andyfeller]

Thank you for the follow up and certainly happy to get this working for ya, @Wesztman! 🫶

I want to follow up with one of the other maintainers to confirm this is the problem. Afterwards, I think we should call this out in the installation docs for our Ubuntu and WSL users to be mindful of.

[andyfeller]

Before closing out this issue, @Wesztman, I want to mention that I'm working with our GitHub Docs team to expand the GitHub Copilot CLI docs to expand on authentication and troubleshooting situations like this.

Thank you again for raising this up and look forward to hear what copilot helps you accomplish!