100% stuck while trying to initialize
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Assessment
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100
- Issue type
- Bug
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Activity status
- Quiet
- Tech stack
- macos, swift
- Domain
- authentication, desktop
Research direction
No source file, test, or code entry point is identified. Start by reproducing the Xcode and Copilot initialization steps, then inspect the listed client logs around GitHub account permissions and loading; done means initialization completes instead of remaining stuck at 100%.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Description
Describe the bug
STUCK at
"Github Account Status Permissions"
"github account: loading ..."
Versions
- Copilot for Xcode: xxxx.459
- Xcode: 26.2
- macOS: as if it actually makes any difference...
Steps to reproduce
- Open Xcode
- Open Xcode ... Copilot ....
- THERE YOU GO .. YOU ARE STUCK
Logs
[2026-01-28T15:41:09.031Z] [info] [Client] [47245] Registering bridge launch agent
[2026-01-28T15:41:12.738Z] [info] [Client] [47245] Registering bridge launch agent
Additional context
no kidding .. this is the ACTUAL log file .... sometimes I think our industry is going to shit ... and the more idi0ts are given 'fantastic tools' the stupider they become.
what I find simply amazing is that someone who is likely a professional developer would think that of writing a client/server type system without thinking that it would be possible (ok.. I really mean 100% likely) that the server might be stuck, blocking the client in the same breath... dunno if it is hubris ("I am so great, my code will never do that") or authentic lack of imagination (ok, I really mean "stup..."). either way ... Kudos, amazing, fantasticaly fabulously cool piece of great code. ;-)
- Dominant language
- Swift
- Stars
- 6.3k
- Forks
- 2k
- Avg merge
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- Merged PRs (30d)
- 2
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