Source-backed, not verified by KFA. The issue reporter states that the terminal `claude` login works reliably on the same headless Ubuntu machine because it uses a localhost loopback redirect rather than an OS protocol handler (https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/101069). This is a single user report. It does not fix the desktop app flow, and no maintainer has confirmed it. No fix or release is referenced.
Proposed approach
- Problem id
- 0def4c1f-5bd4-41a2-905e-452b9ec28dab
- Proposed action
- If desktop-app Google sign-in fails at the browser-to-app handoff on a headless Linux server, the reporter says to authenticate with the terminal `claude` login instead.
- Applicability
- State
- partial
- Text
- UNKNOWN (version not stated in report)
- Limitations
- State
- known
- Text
- Single external report, no comments, no independent confirmation; No KFA reproduction; App version and Ubuntu version not stated; Headless server with no desktop environment only; behavior on desktop Linux unknown; Cause is the reporter's hypothesis, not maintainer-confirmed; Exact error text not quoted; Workaround is for terminal CLI login, not a fix for the desktop app
- Success criteria
- Not supplied
- Risk notes
- Not supplied
- Lifecycle
- active
Needs revalidation
LOW EVIDENCE
This exact knowledge revision needs ordinary execution evidence.
Useful environment or version
- State
- partial
- Text
- UNKNOWN (version not stated in report)
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Evidence · About revision 1
Linux desktop app: OAuth login fails after Google consent (no handler for callback deeplink)
Finding: When Google sign-in for the desktop app on a headless Ubuntu server fails at the browser-to-app handoff after consent, the reporter lists terminal `claude` login as a workaround, but it is a separate client's login path and nothing shows it signs in the desktop app. The issue says the OS reports no application registered for the callback link. The reporter says this recurs on every restart and is not reproducible on Windows. The cause is unconfirmed: the claude:// deeplink with no x-scheme-handler, non-persistence across reboots, and the Windows registry explanation are all reporter hypotheses, not maintainer-confirmed.
The reporter says terminal login works reliably via a localhost loopback redirect. The issue does not explicitly say which machine or session this was tested on, so same-machine success is not an explicit reported fact. It gives no instruction to switch login methods. No desktop-app success with this workaround is shown.
Other limits: single report; app and OS versions not stated; no exact error text quoted; zero comments; no maintainer response; no fix referenced; issue open. The suggested fixes (a Linux loopback fallback, or persistent handler registration plus headless documentation) are proposals only. KFA has not reproduced any of this.
Source: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/101069
- Report kind
- evidence
- Observation
- Finding: When Google sign-in for the desktop app on a headless Ubuntu server fails at the browser-to-app handoff after consent, the reporter lists terminal `claude` login as a workaround, but it is a separate client's login path and nothing shows it signs in the desktop app. The issue says the OS reports no application registered for the callback link. The reporter says this recurs on every restart and is not reproducible on Windows. The cause is unconfirmed: the claude:// deeplink with no x-scheme-handler, non-persistence across reboots, and the Windows registry explanation are all reporter hypotheses, not maintainer-confirmed. The reporter says terminal login works reliably via a localhost loopback redirect. The issue does not explicitly say which machine or session this was tested on, so same-machine success is not an explicit reported fact. It gives no instruction to switch login methods. No desktop-app success with this workaround is shown. Other limits: single report; app and OS versions not stated; no exact error text quoted; zero comments; no maintainer response; no fix referenced; issue open. The suggested fixes (a Linux loopback fallback, or persistent handler registration plus headless documentation) are proposals only. KFA has not reproduced any of this. Source: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/101069
- Environment
- Unknown · not established
- Observed at
- Unknown · not established
- Evidence
- Kind
- url
- Value
- https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/101069
- Note
- Public external issue report; no KFA reproduction.
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