[BUG] "WinGet-Error detected. Do you want to repair WinGet?"

[fcotugno]

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• I have searched for my issue and have not found a work-in-progress/duplicate/resolved issue.
• I have tested that this issue has not been fixed in the latest (beta or stable) release.
• I have checked the FAQ section for solutions.
• This issue is about a bug (if it is not, please use the correct template).

UniGetUI Version

3.1.5

Windows version, edition, and architecture

Windows 11 Pro 23H2

Describe your issue

[BUG] "WinGet-Error detected. Do you want to repair WinGet?" and if I chose yes, even if I had uninstalled the existing version and re-installed the latest version, or even starting UniGetUI as an admin did not resolve the error, the error message came back again and again.

Steps to reproduce the issue

just run UniGetUI

UniGetUI Log

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                          Welcome to UniGetUI Version 3.1.5
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[01.01.2025 23:35:10] Build 74
[01.01.2025 23:35:10] Encoding Code Page set to 850
[01.01.2025 23:35:11] Using built-in UniGetUI Elevator
[01.01.2025 23:35:11] Loaded language locale: de
[01.01.2025 23:35:12] Randomly-generated background API auth token for the current session: 8c73laz1ki8on5jn64z3yfafkm5alhunkegaq05ozccqq0buunjq7p80f8mlc5eu
[01.01.2025 23:35:12] Api running on http://localhost:7058
[01.01.2025 23:35:12] Lang files were updated successfully from GitHub
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                      █ Name: Chocolatey
                      █ Enabled: True
                      █ Found: False
                      █ THE MANAGER WAS NOT FOUND. PERHAPS IT IS NOT 
                      █ INSTALLED OR IT HAS BEEN MISCONFIGURED 
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[01.01.2025 23:35:12] Downloaded new icons and screenshots successfully!
[01.01.2025 23:35:12] Command vcpkg was not found on the system
[01.01.2025 23:35:12] Command npm was not found on the system
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                      █ Name: Npm
                      █ Enabled: True
                      █ Found: False
                      █ THE MANAGER WAS NOT FOUND. PERHAPS IT IS NOT 
                      █ INSTALLED OR IT HAS BEEN MISCONFIGURED 
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[01.01.2025 23:35:12] Command cargo was not found on the system
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                      █ Enabled: True
                      █ Found: False
                      █ THE MANAGER WAS NOT FOUND. PERHAPS IT IS NOT 
                      █ INSTALLED OR IT HAS BEEN MISCONFIGURED 
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[01.01.2025 23:35:12] Command dotnet.exe was not found on the system
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                      █ Name: .NET Tool
                      █ Enabled: True
                      █ Found: False
                      █ THE MANAGER WAS NOT FOUND. PERHAPS IT IS NOT 
                      █ INSTALLED OR IT HAS BEEN MISCONFIGURED 
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[01.01.2025 23:35:12] Command vcpkg was not found on the system
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                      █ Name: Pip
                      █ Enabled: True
                      █ Found: False
                      █ THE MANAGER WAS NOT FOUND. PERHAPS IT IS NOT 
                      █ INSTALLED OR IT HAS BEEN MISCONFIGURED 
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[01.01.2025 23:35:12] Command vcpkg was not found on the system
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                      █ Name: vcpkg
                      █ Enabled: True
                      █ Found: False
                      █ THE MANAGER WAS NOT FOUND. PERHAPS IT IS NOT 
                      █ INSTALLED OR IT HAS BEEN MISCONFIGURED 
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                      █ Name: Winget
                      █ Enabled: True
                      █ Found: True
                      █ Fancy exe name: winget.exe
                      █ Executable path: C:\Users\ugisb\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps\winget.exe
                      █ Call arguments: 
                      █ Version: 
                      █   System WinGet CLI Version: v1.9.25200
                      █   Using Native WinGet helper (COM Api)
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[01.01.2025 23:35:15] Command scoop was not found on the system
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                      █ Name: Scoop
                      █ Enabled: True
                      █ Found: False
                      █ THE MANAGER WAS NOT FOUND. PERHAPS IT IS NOT 
                      █ INSTALLED OR IT HAS BEEN MISCONFIGURED 
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                      █ Name: PowerShell
                      █ Enabled: True
                      █ Found: True
                      █ Fancy exe name: powershell.exe
                      █ Executable path: C:\WINDOWS\system32\windowspowershell\v1.0\powershell.exe
                      █ Call arguments:  -NoProfile -Command
                      █ Version: 
                      █   Name                           Value                                                                                   
                      █   ----                           -----                                                                                   
                      █   PSVersion                      5.1.22621.4391                                                                          
                      █   PSEdition                      Desktop                                                                                 
                      █   PSCompatibleVersions           {1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0...}                                                                 
                      █   BuildVersion                   10.0.22621.4391                                                                         
                      █   CLRVersion                     4.0.30319.42000                                                                         
                      █   WSManStackVersion              3.0                                                                                     
                      █   PSRemotingProtocolVersion      2.3                                                                                     
                      █   SerializationVersion           1.1.0.1
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                      █ Name: PowerShell7
                      █ Enabled: True
                      █ Found: True
                      █ Fancy exe name: pwsh.exe
                      █ Executable path: C:\Users\ugisb\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps\pwsh.exe
                      █ Call arguments:  -NoProfile -Command
                      █ Version: 
                      █   PowerShell 7.4.6
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[01.01.2025 23:35:16] LoadComponentsAsync finished executing. All managers loaded. Proceeding to interface.
[01.01.2025 23:35:17] Found 0 installed packages from PowerShell7
[01.01.2025 23:35:18] Found 0 available updates from PowerShell7
[01.01.2025 23:35:19] Found 1 installed packages from PowerShell
[01.01.2025 23:35:20] Manager WinGet failed to list installed packages with exception InvalidOperationException: WinGet: Failed to connect to composite catalog.
[01.01.2025 23:35:20] Since this was the first attempt, Winget.AttemptFastRepair() will be called and the procedure will be restarted
[01.01.2025 23:35:20] Attempting to reconnec to WinGet COM Server...
[01.01.2025 23:35:20] Found 0 available updates from PowerShell
[01.01.2025 23:35:24] Error finding installed packages on manager Winget
[01.01.2025 23:35:24] System.AggregateException: One or more errors occurred. (WinGet: Failed to connect to composite catalog.)
                       ---> System.InvalidOperationException: WinGet: Failed to connect to composite catalog.
                         at UniGetUI.PackageEngine.Managers.WingetManager.NativeWinGetHelper.GetLocalWinGetPackages() in C:\SomePrograms\WingetUI-Store\src\UniGetUI.PackageEngine.Managers.WinGet\ClientHelpers\NativeWinGetHelper.cs:line 238
                         at System.Threading.Tasks.Task`1.InnerInvoke()
                         at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.RunFromThreadPoolDispatchLoop(Thread threadPoolThread, ExecutionContext executionContext, ContextCallback callback, Object state)
                      --- End of stack trace from previous location ---
                         at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.RunFromThreadPoolDispatchLoop(Thread threadPoolThread, ExecutionContext executionContext, ContextCallback callback, Object state)
                         at System.Threading.Tasks.Task.ExecuteWithThreadLocal(Task& currentTaskSlot, Thread threadPoolThread)
                      --- End of stack trace from previous location ---
                         at UniGetUI.Core.Classes.TaskRecycler`1._runTaskAndWait(Task`1 task, Int32 hash, Int32 cacheTimeSecsSecs)
                         at UniGetUI.Core.Classes.TaskRecycler`1.RunOrAttach(Func`1 method, Int32 cacheTimeSecs) in C:\SomePrograms\WingetUI-Store\src\UniGetUI.Core.Classes\TaskRecycler.cs:line 59
                         at UniGetUI.PackageEngine.Managers.WingetManager.NativeWinGetHelper.GetInstalledPackages_UnSafe() in C:\SomePrograms\WingetUI-Store\src\UniGetUI.PackageEngine.Managers.WinGet\ClientHelpers\NativeWinGetHelper.cs:line 194
                         at UniGetUI.PackageEngine.Managers.WingetManager.WinGet.GetInstalledPackages_UnSafe() in C:\SomePrograms\WingetUI-Store\src\UniGetUI.PackageEngine.Managers.WinGet\WinGet.cs:line 101
                         at System.Threading.Tasks.Task`1.InnerInvoke()
                         at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.RunFromThreadPoolDispatchLoop(Thread threadPoolThread, ExecutionContext executionContext, ContextCallback callback, Object state)
                      --- End of stack trace from previous location ---
                         at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.RunFromThreadPoolDispatchLoop(Thread threadPoolThread, ExecutionContext executionContext, ContextCallback callback, Object state)
                         at System.Threading.Tasks.Task.ExecuteWithThreadLocal(Task& currentTaskSlot, Thread threadPoolThread)
                         --- End of inner exception stack trace ---
                         at System.Threading.Tasks.Task.ThrowIfExceptional(Boolean includeTaskCanceledExceptions)
                         at System.Threading.Tasks.Task.Wait(Int32 millisecondsTimeout, CancellationToken cancellationToken)
                         at System.Threading.Tasks.Task.Wait(TimeSpan timeout, CancellationToken cancellationToken)
                         at UniGetUI.PackageEngine.ManagerClasses.Manager.PackageManager._getInstalledPackages(Boolean SecondAttempt) in C:\SomePrograms\WingetUI-Store\src\UniGetUI.PackageEngine.PackageManagerClasses\Manager\PackageManager.cs:line 252
[01.01.2025 23:35:25] Manager WinGet failed to list available updates with exception InvalidOperationException: WinGet: Failed to connect to composite catalog.
[01.01.2025 23:35:25] Since this was the first attempt, Winget.AttemptFastRepair() will be called and the procedure will be restarted
[01.01.2025 23:35:25] Attempting to reconnec to WinGet COM Server...
[01.01.2025 23:35:38] Error finding updates on manager Winget
[01.01.2025 23:35:38] System.AggregateException: One or more errors occurred. (WinGet: Failed to connect to composite catalog.)
                       ---> System.InvalidOperationException: WinGet: Failed to connect to composite catalog.
                         at UniGetUI.PackageEngine.Managers.WingetManager.NativeWinGetHelper.GetLocalWinGetPackages() in C:\SomePrograms\WingetUI-Store\src\UniGetUI.PackageEngine.Managers.WinGet\ClientHelpers\NativeWinGetHelper.cs:line 238
                         at System.Threading.Tasks.Task`1.InnerInvoke()
                         at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.RunFromThreadPoolDispatchLoop(Thread threadPoolThread, ExecutionContext executionContext, ContextCallback callback, Object state)
                      --- End of stack trace from previous location ---
                         at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.RunFromThreadPoolDispatchLoop(Thread threadPoolThread, ExecutionContext executionContext, ContextCallback callback, Object state)
                         at System.Threading.Tasks.Task.ExecuteWithThreadLocal(Task& currentTaskSlot, Thread threadPoolThread)
                      --- End of stack trace from previous location ---
                         at UniGetUI.Core.Classes.TaskRecycler`1._runTaskAndWait(Task`1 task, Int32 hash, Int32 cacheTimeSecsSecs)
                         at UniGetUI.Core.Classes.TaskRecycler`1.RunOrAttach(Func`1 method, Int32 cacheTimeSecs) in C:\SomePrograms\WingetUI-Store\src\UniGetUI.Core.Classes\TaskRecycler.cs:line 59
                         at UniGetUI.PackageEngine.Managers.WingetManager.NativeWinGetHelper.GetAvailableUpdates_UnSafe() in C:\SomePrograms\WingetUI-Store\src\UniGetUI.PackageEngine.Managers.WinGet\ClientHelpers\NativeWinGetHelper.cs:line 155
                         at UniGetUI.PackageEngine.Managers.WingetManager.WinGet.GetAvailableUpdates_UnSafe() in C:\SomePrograms\WingetUI-Store\src\UniGetUI.PackageEngine.Managers.WinGet\WinGet.cs:line 94
                         at System.Threading.Tasks.Task`1.InnerInvoke()
                         at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.RunFromThreadPoolDispatchLoop(Thread threadPoolThread, ExecutionContext executionContext, ContextCallback callback, Object state)
                      --- End of stack trace from previous location ---
                         at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.RunFromThreadPoolDispatchLoop(Thread threadPoolThread, ExecutionContext executionContext, ContextCallback callback, Object state)
                         at System.Threading.Tasks.Task.ExecuteWithThreadLocal(Task& currentTaskSlot, Thread threadPoolThread)
                         --- End of inner exception stack trace ---
                         at System.Threading.Tasks.Task.ThrowIfExceptional(Boolean includeTaskCanceledExceptions)
                         at System.Threading.Tasks.Task.Wait(Int32 millisecondsTimeout, CancellationToken cancellationToken)
                         at System.Threading.Tasks.Task.Wait(TimeSpan timeout, CancellationToken cancellationToken)
                         at UniGetUI.PackageEngine.ManagerClasses.Manager.PackageManager._getAvailableUpdates(Boolean SecondAttempt) in C:\SomePrograms\WingetUI-Store\src\UniGetUI.PackageEngine.PackageManagerClasses\Manager\PackageManager.cs:line 201

Package Managers Logs

Manager WinGet with version:
System WinGet CLI Version: v1.9.25200
Using Native WinGet helper (COM Api)

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Logged native task on manager Winget. Task type is ListSources
Process start time: 01.01.2025 23:35:13
Process end time:   01.01.2025 23:35:13

-- Task information
 ...

The task reported success

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Logged subprocess-based task on manager Winget. Task type is RefreshIndexes
Subprocess executable: "C:\Users\ugisb\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps\winget.exe"
Command-line arguments: " source update --disable-interactivity"
Process start time: 01.01.2025 23:35:16
Process end time:   01.01.2025 23:35:25

-- Process STDOUT
 ...

Return code: SUCCESS (0)

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Logged native task on manager Winget. Task type is ListInstalledPackages
Process start time: 01.01.2025 23:35:16
Process end time:   UNFINISHED

The task has not finished yet

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Logged native task on manager Winget. Task type is OtherTask
Process start time: 01.01.2025 23:35:16
Process end time:   01.01.2025 23:35:20

-- Task information
 ...

-- Task errors
  Failed to connect to installedSearchCatalogRef. Aborting.

The task reported a failure (1)

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Logged native task on manager Winget. Task type is ListInstalledPackages
Process start time: 01.01.2025 23:35:20
Process end time:   UNFINISHED

The task has not finished yet

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Logged native task on manager Winget. Task type is OtherTask
Process start time: 01.01.2025 23:35:20
Process end time:   01.01.2025 23:35:24

-- Task information
 ...

-- Task errors
  Failed to connect to installedSearchCatalogRef. Aborting.

The task reported a failure (1)

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Logged native task on manager Winget. Task type is ListUpdates
Process start time: 01.01.2025 23:35:25
Process end time:   UNFINISHED

The task has not finished yet

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Logged subprocess-based task on manager Winget. Task type is RefreshIndexes
Subprocess executable: "C:\Users\ugisb\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps\winget.exe"
Command-line arguments: " source update --disable-interactivity"
Process start time: 01.01.2025 23:35:25
Process end time:   01.01.2025 23:35:31

-- Process STDOUT
 ...

Return code: SUCCESS (0)

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Logged native task on manager Winget. Task type is ListUpdates
Process start time: 01.01.2025 23:35:31
Process end time:   UNFINISHED

The task has not finished yet

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Logged native task on manager Winget. Task type is OtherTask
Process start time: 01.01.2025 23:35:31
Process end time:   01.01.2025 23:35:38

-- Task information
 ...

-- Task errors
  Failed to connect to installedSearchCatalogRef. Aborting.

The task reported a failure (1)

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[marticliment]

What happens if you run winget list on a command prompt?

[Yoshlix]

I have the same error as above and I think I found out why.
As for me I'm using two user accounts on my system. One with admin rights and one with normal user rights. The one I'm using all time is the normal one.
When UniGetUI elevates it self with the UniGetElevator it recreates the temporary winget folder in %temp%. Problem is, that it runs winget with some permissions that the normal user account is unable to access it. Through Windows explorer I don't have access to it unless I give myself the permissions.
When running winget list this is the output:

Fehler beim Versuch, die Quelle zu aktualisieren: winget
Fehler beim Öffnen der vordefinierten Quelle. Bitte melden Sie dieses Problem an die Entwickler von winget.
Unerwarteter Fehler beim Ausführen des Befehls:
0x80070005 : Zugriff verweigert

It translates to:

Error while trying to update source: winget
Error while opening the predefined source: Please report this problem to the winget developers.
Unexpected error while running the command:
0x80070005 : Access denied

When I delete the "WinGet" folder in my %temp% directory everything works again until UniGetUI trys to update something with it's build in elevator.

Hope this helps to solve this issue here. If not, feel free to move this to a new issue. I can also provide logs if needed.