winget-cli: v1.7.10582 `upgrade --all` fails without any errors or output

@raphael-zenhaeusern-legic

Try to reset Winget? With PowerShell:

Get-AppxPackage -Name 'Microsoft.DesktopAppInstaller' | Reset-AppxPackage

How to reset Winget

[!NOTE] This will reset all Winget settings.

[!WARNING] Use Windows PowerShell 5.1 (powershell.exe), not PowerShell Core (pwsh.exe).

• https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/issues/13138
• https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/issues/19031

How to find what Windows build you’re on

Open run prompt, CMD, pwsh or PowerShell. Type winver and press enter.

Click to view

Or use winget --info, it will list Windows build.

Click to view

If on Windows 11 (build >= 20215)

# After Windows insider build 20215
Get-AppxPackage -Name 'Microsoft.DesktopAppInstaller' | Reset-AppxPackage

If on Windows 10 (build < 20215)

# Before Windows insider build 20215
## Get app in question
$App = Get-AppxPackage -Name 'Microsoft.DesktopAppInstaller'

## Delete app data
$AppDataDir = [string] [System.IO.Path]::Combine(
    [System.Environment]::GetFolderPath('LocalApplicationData'),
    'Packages',
    $App.'PackageFamilyName'
)
[System.IO.Directory]::GetDirectories($AppDataDir).ForEach{
    $null = [System.IO.Directory]::Delete($_,$true)
}

## Re-register / reinstall application
Add-AppxPackage -DisableDevelopmentMode -Register -Path (
    [System.IO.Path]::Combine($App.'InstallLocation','appxmanifest.xml')
)

https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli/releases/tag/v1.7.10661

We’re flighting to Windows Insider Beta and Windows Insider Release Preview. If all goes well we will release as stable early next week, but you can try it out now.

Hey everyone, We’ve got a fix coming with a new release.

Had the same reported issue for showing packages but doing nothing

winget upgrade --all

This fixed it 🎉

Get-AppxPackage -Name 'Microsoft.DesktopAppInstaller' | Reset-AppxPackage

@raphael-zenhaeusern-legic

Try to reset Winget? With PowerShell:

Get-AppxPackage -Name 'Microsoft.DesktopAppInstaller' | Reset-AppxPackage

I ran into this yesterday on one computer, and again today on another computer. Checked the logs and it had a bunch of repeating errors opening the pinning database.

2024-03-01 15:40:51.859 [REPO] ... opening existing pinning database
2024-03-01 15:40:51.859 [REPO] Opening database for Read at 'C:\Users\<redacted>\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.DesktopAppInstaller_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalState\pinning.db'
2024-03-01 15:40:51.859 [REPO] Opened Pinning Index with version [1.0], last write [2023-07-11 15:54:59.000]
2024-03-01 15:40:51.859 [CLI ] Terminating context: 0x8a15002b at C:\__w\1\s\external\pkg\src\AppInstallerCLICore\Workflows\UpdateFlow.cpp:bc

I deleted the pinning.db, and that didn’t change anything.

Then I tried resetting the packaged as show above, and that solved the problem.

Update --all now installs the listed updates. Thanks!

Ran into the same issue today, too. I’m also on version 1.7.10582. Deleting the pinning.db did not work.

However, doing a Reset-AppxPackage as above did.

https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli/releases/tag/v1.7.10661 is now marked as the stable release at GitHub and it’s being published to the Microsoft Store for those getting automatic updates.

How to reset Winget

thanks, resetting fixed the issue!

Windows 11 (build >= 20215)

that one worked for me, thank you 🙏