Github desktop for mac cannot login

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Rumei Ines LI picture Rumei Ines LI · Mar 18, 2016 · Viewed 10.4k times · Source

I'm new to github and I've just downloaded github desktop for mac (v217), but i cannot login, it always says "could not reach server". Image : the error msg

I've tried :

  • Both my username and email for 'Login';
  • Reinstall github desktop;
  • Login with Git by trying "git push" to my repo and succeeded;
  • And there is no problem with my login on github.com

Thank you for the help ;)

Answer

ickydime picture ickydime · Mar 28, 2016

We ran into this same problem. The solution for us was to have the new user check their e-mail and authenticate their account with GitHub. After we did that we no longer received the vague error message.

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