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session creation failed.

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Assessment

Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
10/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Active
Domain
desktop

Research direction

The issue reports a session creation failure in the GitHub Copilot desktop app on macOS. Start by checking the app logs for error messages around session initialization. Look at the code paths for session creation and authentication, possibly in the app's main process or network layer. Determine what 'done' looks like by verifying a successful session start after the fix.

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Description

session creation failed. Did bunch of restarts and retries but its not able initialize

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App version 1.1.23
OS macOS 26.6.2
Theme GitHub
Path /chat
Tenure Day 1
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