Failed when searching source; results will not be included: msstore

[jeffwlawson]

Brief description of your issue

Failed when searching source; results will not be included: msstore. I tried running winget source reset --force but that did not solve the issue.

I notice in the log file it mentions that, "Did not find Id [9N8CNV1VCPT6] in tracked source: msstore". I tracked this down to the app PDFgear. But I'm still able to find it in the msstore and it shows as installed.

So I'm not exactly sure what the issue is or how to resolve it.

Steps to reproduce

Run winget upgrade

Expected behavior

Allow updating apps form the msstore

Actual behavior

Failed when searching source; results will not be included: msstore

Environment

winget --info
Windows Package Manager v1.8.1911
Windows: Windows.Desktop v10.0.22621.3880
System Architecture: X64
Package: Microsoft.DesktopAppInstaller v1.23.1911.0

[github-actions]

Hi I'm an AI powered bot that finds similar issues based off the issue title.

Please view the issues below to see if they solve your problem, and if the issue describes your problem please consider closing this one and thumbs upping the other issue to help us prioritize it. Thank you!

Open similar issues:

• Failed when searching Source (#3419), similarity score: 0.86
• Failed when searching source; results will not be included: winget (#3303), similarity score: 0.81

Closed similar issues:

• Failed when searching source: msstore (#3596), similarity score: 0.84
• Failed in attempting to update the source: winget (#1826), similarity score: 0.78
• Default winget source unavailable? (#1638), similarity score: 0.78

Note: You can give me feedback by thumbs upping or thumbs downing this comment.

[yoichiozaki]

looks to same here for me...

[denelon]

Can you run the command with "--verbose-logs --logs" and share the log file when this happens?

[jeffwlawson]

So I did a little more searching this morning and found issue #3575 where is was suggested to run the command Get-AppxPackage *appInstaller* | Reset-AppxPackage.

This seemed to fix the problem for me, although I don't really know how or why.

[denelon]

There is also a "repair" command in WinGet. I'd be curious if you ran into another device in this state if running winget repair Microsoft.AppInstaller would have worked.

[jeffwlawson]

If it happens again, I'll give that command a try. Thanks for your help.

[mahvili]

this solved similar problem in my case:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/1688882/how-do-we-fix-0x8a15000f-data-required-by-the-sour

[jacktose]

@denelon

There is also a "repair" command in WinGet. I'd be curious if you ran into another device in this state if running winget repair Microsoft.AppInstaller would have worked.

It didn't work for me (Win 10):

PS C:\Users\jacktose> winget upgrade
Failed when searching source; results will not be included: msstore
Name                   Id                 Version Available Source
------------------------------------------------------------------
Python 3.12.4 (64-bit) Python.Python.3.12 3.12.4  3.12.5    winget
1 upgrades available.
1 package(s) have version numbers that cannot be determined. Use --include-unknown to see all results.

PS C:\Users\jacktose> Get-AppxPackage *appInstaller* | Reset-AppxPackage
Reset-AppxPackage: The term 'Reset-AppxPackage' is not recognized as a name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or executable program.
Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and try again.

PS C:\Users\jacktose> winget repair Microsoft.AppInstaller
Found App Installer [Microsoft.AppInstaller]
Starting package repair...
  ▎                               1%
Repair failed with exit code: 0x80073d02 : The package could not be installed because resources it modifies are currently in use.

Edit: My fix was to uninstall (winget uninstall --id Microsoft.AppInstaller) & reinstall App Installer.

[Spongman]

winget repair isn't in the version of winget that ships with win11