microsoft / microsoft/winget-cli
Winget is totally broken on my system
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Description
Brief description of your issue
For a week now, the winget source in Winget is totally broken and will not work for package updates, package installs, nor package searches. When attempting to do winget upgrade --all I get an 0x80070005 : Access is denied. error. The funny part is I get this error when I run as a normal user which is funny because I shouldn't have to be admin to simply run an upgrade command; that generally kicks in when packages actually want to upgrade (which is the behavior I experienced before)
Failed in attempting to update the source: winget
Failed to open the predefined source; please report to winget maintainers.
An unexpected error occurred while executing the command:
0x80070005 : Access is denied.
Running the command under an admin powershell instance produces this error
winget update --all --verbose-logs
Failed when searching source: winget
An unexpected error occurred while executing the command:
0x8a15000f : Data required by the source is missing
It's also worth nothing I am on a preview, but this issue existed before I switched to a preview build as part of troubleshooting.
Steps to reproduce
Attempt to upgrade or install anything.
Expected behavior
I expect Winget to work like a functional package manager
Actual behavior
Winget is broken beyond belief.
Environment
Windows Package Manager (Preview) v1.9.1981-preview
Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
Windows: Windows.Desktop v10.0.22621.3880
System Architecture: X64
Package: Microsoft.DesktopAppInstaller v1.24.1981.0
Winget Directories
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Logs %LOCALAPPDATA%\Packages\Microsoft.DesktopAppInstaller_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalState\Diag…
User Settings %LOCALAPPDATA%\Packages\Microsoft.DesktopAppInstaller_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalState\sett…
Portable Links Directory (User) %LOCALAPPDATA%\Microsoft\WinGet\Links
Portable Links Directory (Machine) C:\Program Files\WinGet\Links
Portable Package Root (User) %LOCALAPPDATA%\Microsoft\WinGet\Packages
Portable Package Root C:\Program Files\WinGet\Packages
Portable Package Root (x86) C:\Program Files (x86)\WinGet\Packages
Installer Downloads %USERPROFILE%\Downloads
Links
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Privacy Statement https://aka.ms/winget-privacy
License Agreement https://aka.ms/winget-license
Third Party Notices https://aka.ms/winget-3rdPartyNotice
Homepage https://aka.ms/winget
Windows Store Terms https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/storedocs/terms-of-sale
Admin Setting State
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LocalManifestFiles Disabled
BypassCertificatePinningForMicrosoftStore Disabled
InstallerHashOverride Disabled
LocalArchiveMalwareScanOverride Disabled
ProxyCommandLineOptions Disabled
DefaultProxy Disabled
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by reproducing winget upgrade --all and source search or install in normal and administrator PowerShell sessions on the reported Windows environment, using --verbose-logs. Done means determining why the winget source fails and restoring successful source updates, searches, installs, and upgrades.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- cpp, powershell
- Domain
- cli, operating-systems
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100