Version: 0.0.7-r92 After a new install on MacOS (arm64), output of flox activate: error: unable to download 'https://api.github.com/repos/flox/floxpkgs/commits/master': HTTP error 401 response body: { "message": "Bad credentials", "documentation_url": "https://doc…

Solved this myself: It turns out the GitHub CLI is required. After installing it and running gh auth login, I was able to run flox activate without issues

This seems like something that should probably be included in the “Install flox” documentation :sunglasses:

Thank you for your feedback and subsequent updates! Looking into this further, is it possible you were logged into the gh client with an invalid token when you first started using flox? I ask as we support running with no github token, and hence running flox activate shouldn’t have given you that e…

Hi Robin! :wave: No, I actually had never used the gh client and had to install it to do this! (I was on the old third-party hub cli for a while.) How can I help reproduce?

Hi there! I tried to reproduce with a fresh install on a Mac VM, but I didn’t get the error: floxfan@floxfans-Virtual-Machine ~ % flox --version Version: 0.0.7-r92 floxfan@floxfans-Virtual-Machine ~ % flox activate Updating /Users/floxfan/.config/flox/nix.conf Updating /Users/floxfan/.config/flox/g…

It is entirely possible! I’m not sure what it would be, though. I don’t do anything super-weird, but I do authenticate to GitHub with SSH instead of HTTPS, so maybe it’s related to that? Here’s the output of git config --list: credential.helper=osxkeychain user.name=Ryan Elainska user.email=<REDACT…

hmmmm, as we cannot recreate the issue and this is the only time this issue has been reported so far, I think it best to wrap up this thread but definitely keep it in mind in the event we get a similar report. Would that be ok with you @glassblowerscat ?

That seems reasonable! There’s a pretty decent probability that it’s an edge case. M1 Macs have lots of those, especially for developers :smirk:

We use insteadof to inject credentials, so there’s a chance those could be conflicting. It looks like longest match is respected though, so I’m not sure why the one you have would be taking precedence. I am curious though if removing that from your git config would be another workaround

@mkenigs Just to be clear about what you’re suggesting, you think maybe removing the credential.helper value would be something to try?

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robinbrantley December 29, 2022, 12:12pm 14

ah, another data point - thank you for letting us know!

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