Error on update and install after the successful workload update

I get the same error message about JSON for both install and update. For install, it then gives me the help output which is probably shouldn’t. For update, it gives me the full exception stack.

<snipped> Pack Microsoft.iOS.Templates version 14.5.100-preview.5.889 is already installed. Writing workload pack installation record for Microsoft.iOS.Templates version 14.5.100-preview.5.889... Garbage collecting for SDK feature bands 6.0.100... **System.Text.Json.JsonException: The input does not contain any JSON tokens. Expected the input to start with a valid JSON token, when isFinalBlock is true. Path: $ | LineNumber: 0 | BytePositionInLine: 0.** ---> System.Text.Json.JsonReaderException: The input does not contain any JSON tokens. Expected the input to start with a valid JSON token, when isFinalBlock is true. LineNumber: 0 | BytePositionInLine: 0. at System.Text.Json.ThrowHelper.ThrowJsonReaderException(Utf8JsonReader& json, ExceptionResource resource, Byte nextByte, ReadOnlySpan`1 bytes) in System.Text.Json.dll:token 0x60000da+0x0 at System.Text.Json.Utf8JsonReader.Read() in System.Text.Json.dll:token 0x600028e+0x2a at System.Text.Json.Serialization.JsonConverter`1.ReadCore(Utf8JsonReader& reader, JsonSerializerOptions options, ReadStack& state) in System.Text.Json.dll:token 0x6000746+0x8 --- End of inner exception stack trace --- at System.Text.Json.ThrowHelper.ReThrowWithPath(ReadStack& state, JsonReaderException ex) in System.Text.Json.dll:token 0x6000114+0x8d at System.Text.Json.Serialization.JsonConverter`1.ReadCore(Utf8JsonReader& reader, JsonSerializerOptions options, ReadStack& state) in System.Text.Json.dll:token 0x6000746+0x10c at System.Text.Json.Serialization.JsonConverter`1.ReadCoreAsObject(Utf8JsonReader& reader, JsonSerializerOptions options, ReadStack& state) in System.Text.Json.dll:token 0x6000745+0x0 at System.Text.Json.JsonSerializer.ReadCore[TValue](JsonConverter jsonConverter, Utf8JsonReader& reader, JsonSerializerOptions options, ReadStack& state) in System.Text.Json.dll:token 0x600033b+0x14 at System.Text.Json.JsonSerializer.ReadUsingMetadata[TValue](ReadOnlySpan`1 utf8Json, JsonTypeInfo jsonTypeInfo, Nullable`1 actualByteCount) in System.Text.Json.dll:token 0x600033c+0x26 at System.Text.Json.JsonSerializer.ReadUsingMetadata[TValue](ReadOnlySpan`1 json, JsonTypeInfo jsonTypeInfo) in System.Text.Json.dll:token 0x6000356+0x4c at System.Text.Json.JsonSerializer.Deserialize(String json, Type returnType, JsonSerializerOptions options) in System.Text.Json.dll:token 0x600034f+0x22 at Microsoft.DotNet.Workloads.Workload.Install.NetSdkManagedInstaller.GarbageCollectInstalledWorkloadPacks() in dotnet.dll:token 0x60001b5+0x16f at Microsoft.DotNet.Workloads.Workload.Update.WorkloadUpdateCommand.UpdateWorkloads(Boolean includePreviews) in dotnet.dll:token 0x6000156+0xb1 at Microsoft.DotNet.Workloads.Workload.Update.WorkloadUpdateCommand.Execute() in dotnet.dll:token 0x6000154+0x131 at Microsoft.DotNet.Cli.DotNetTopLevelCommandBase.RunCommand(String[] args) in dotnet.dll:token 0x60008ca+0x5e at Microsoft.DotNet.Workloads.Workload.WorkloadCommand.Run(String[] args) in dotnet.dll:token 0x6000146+0x6 at Microsoft.DotNet.Cli.Program.ProcessArgs(String[] args, TimeSpan startupTime, ITelemetry telemetryClient) in dotnet.dll:token 0x6000933+0x2e8 at Microsoft.DotNet.Cli.Program.Main(String[] args) in dotnet.dll:token 0x6000931+0x6f

[marcpopMSFT]

I originally installed using preview 4 ( 6.0.100-preview.4.21255.9 I believe) and then tried the update command using 6.0.100-preview.5.21302.13. Yeah, I figured it might be a preview to preview issue but shared it anyway in case it wasn’t.

[steveisok]

Yeah, I installed a few, but I don’t recall what version I had.