Unable to load Chocolatey GUI assembly. Type initiator exception 'ChocolateyGui.Common.Windows.Bootstrapper'
See original GitHub issueWhat You Are Seeing?
When I launch Chocolatey GUI from start menu or powershell (admin), after an UAC prompt I see:
When I click ok, I the same prompt appears, and I need to close like 8 windows for it to disappear.
What is Expected?
GUI should just launch, or at least some more detailed error on the terminal.
How Did You Get This To Happen? (Steps to Reproduce)
- I run the Windows install script for https://github.com/black7375/Firefox-UI-Fix . I run it many times previously on other devices, but there I had choco already installed. Here on this fresh install I did it before manually installing choco.
- Tried installing chocolatey via the official way, it returned it is already installed
- Tried installing
sdio
not as an administrator, aborted, then did it as admin - Installed
chocolateygui
, I never managed to launch it - Tried
choco upgrade chocolateygui -y --force
andchoco upgrade chocolatey -y --force
, didn’t work - Checked
AppData\Local\Chocolatey GUI
is empty
System Details
- OS Build (In PowerShell run
[System.Environment]::OSVersion.version.tostring()
): 10.0.22000.0 (Windows 11 Home 22000) - Windows PowerShell version (Run:
$PSVersionTable
): 5.1.22000.832 - Chocolatey version (Run
choco --version
): 1.1.0
Output Log
No output log when launching the GUI
Issue Analytics
- State:
- Created a year ago
- Comments:20 (8 by maintainers)
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Just wanted to add my twopence here: I landed on that page when I had the same issue.
A reinstall of
chocolateygui
dit nothing.I forced a reinstall with
choco install chocolatey --force
and that fixed it.I then noticed that the
chocolateygui
package version was2.0.0.0
while thechocolatey
package (before the force reinstall) was1.3.1
.After the reinstall it matches the GUI version and everything works.
No idea what happened to make the main package go out of sync.
I can also confirm that
choco install chocolatey --force
also fixed the same issue for me.This is the second PC I had this happen on. All started after running Update all from Chocolateygui. Chocolatey gets updated, gui closes, wont launch again. even after trying to also update chocolateygui from chocolateycli.