package manager hangs and does not load packages

Hello @alexrau,

That's not at all a good behaviour, please accept my apologies for that poor experience.

Just to make sure that I understand correctly what the problem might be, would you kindly answer a few questions?

• You are able to start Unity.
• When you click on the "Window" tab and select "Package Manager" what happens exactly?
  • What freezes? Unity? Package Manager? What do you see?
  • What are the logs saying? Can you attach them?
• Is this a new project or an existing one?
• If it is a new project, does clicking "Reset Packages to defaults" (under the Help tab) work?

As for this part, you can try adding the following directly to the project manifest:

• "com.unity.render-pipeline.lightweight":"3.0.0-preview". This is JSON so don't forget a comma before and after if there are preceding or following items in that list. It should look vaguely like this:

Code (JavaScript):

1. {
2. "dependencies": {
3. "com.unity.ads": "2.0.8",
4. "com.unity.analytics": "2.0.16",
5. "com.unity.package-manager-ui": "1.9.11",
6. "com.unity.purchasing": "2.0.3",
7. "com.unity.render-pipelines.lightweight": "3.0.0-preview",
8. "com.unity.textmeshpro": "1.2.4",
9. "com.unity.modules.ai": "1.0.0",
10. "com.unity.modules.animation": "1.0.0",
11. "com.unity.modules.assetbundle": "1.0.0",
12. "com.unity.modules.audio": "1.0.0",
13. "com.unity.modules.cloth": "1.0.0",
14. "com.unity.modules.director": "1.0.0",
15. "com.unity.modules.imageconversion": "1.0.0",
16. "com.unity.modules.imgui": "1.0.0",
17. "com.unity.modules.jsonserialize": "1.0.0",
18. "com.unity.modules.particlesystem": "1.0.0",
19. "com.unity.modules.physics": "1.0.0",
20. "com.unity.modules.physics2d": "1.0.0",
21. "com.unity.modules.screencapture": "1.0.0",
22. "com.unity.modules.terrain": "1.0.0",
23. "com.unity.modules.terrainphysics": "1.0.0",
24. "com.unity.modules.tilemap": "1.0.0",
25. "com.unity.modules.ui": "1.0.0",
26. "com.unity.modules.uielements": "1.0.0",
27. "com.unity.modules.umbra": "1.0.0",
28. "com.unity.modules.unityanalytics": "1.0.0",
29. "com.unity.modules.unitywebrequest": "1.0.0",
30. "com.unity.modules.unitywebrequestassetbundle": "1.0.0",
31. "com.unity.modules.unitywebrequestaudio": "1.0.0",
32. "com.unity.modules.unitywebrequesttexture": "1.0.0",
33. "com.unity.modules.unitywebrequestwww": "1.0.0",
34. "com.unity.modules.vehicles": "1.0.0",
35. "com.unity.modules.video": "1.0.0",
36. "com.unity.modules.vr": "1.0.0",
37. "com.unity.modules.wind": "1.0.0",
38. "com.unity.modules.xr": "1.0.0"
39. }
40. }

Thanks for your time, let me know if you have questions.

Cheers,
Pedro
Unity STE

 

Hi @jake46116,

Just to be sure I understand clearly, you can open your project successfully and you're able to use packages, but when you open the Package Manager window, you see the circle bar rotating and eventually see the 'cannot connect to local server' error? Or do you get that error when opening Unity, while loading the project?

What specific version of Unity are you using? (The full version number, e.g. 2018.2.21f1)