Bug Trying to access product container before it is initialized.

I check out my project on another computer, and visual scripting does not work, and editor spams the following in the console. What to do?

InvalidOperationException: Trying to access product container before it is initialized.
Unity.VisualScripting.ProductContainer.EnsureInitialized () (at Packages/com.unity.visualscripting/Editor/VisualScripting.Core/Products/ProductContainer.cs:96)
Unity.VisualScripting.ProductContainer.GetProduct (System.String productId) (at Packages/com.unity.visualscripting/Editor/VisualScripting.Core/Products/ProductContainer.cs:121)
Unity.VisualScripting.EditorPreferencesProviderView.OnGUI (System.String searchContext) (at Packages/com.unity.visualscripting/Editor/SettingsProvider/EditorPreferencesProviderView.cs:40)
UnityEditor.SettingsWindow.DrawControls () (at <780782bc035845f9909cebbd4c983ae3>:0)
UnityEditor.SettingsWindow.DrawSettingsPanel () (at <780782bc035845f9909cebbd4c983ae3>:0)
UnityEngine.UIElements.IMGUIContainer.DoOnGUI (UnityEngine.Event evt, UnityEngine.Matrix4x4 parentTransform, UnityEngine.Rect clippingRect, System.Boolean isComputingLayout, UnityEngine.Rect layoutSize, System.Action onGUIHandler, System.Boolean canAffectFocus) (at <f23cc42ed8af4b73afc7c74ab921aa08>:0)
UnityEngine.UIElements.IMGUIContainer.HandleIMGUIEvent (UnityEngine.Event e, UnityEngine.Matrix4x4 worldTransform, UnityEngine.Rect clippingRect, System.Action onGUIHandler, System.Boolean canAffectFocus) (at <f23cc42ed8af4b73afc7c74ab921aa08>:0)
UnityEngine.UIElements.IMGUIContainer.DoIMGUIRepaint () (at <f23cc42ed8af4b73afc7c74ab921aa08>:0)
UnityEngine.UIElements.UIR.RenderChainCommand.ExecuteNonDrawMesh (UnityEngine.UIElements.UIR.DrawParams drawParams, System.Single pixelsPerPoint, System.Exception& immediateException) (at <f23cc42ed8af4b73afc7c74ab921aa08>:0)
Rethrow as ImmediateModeException
UnityEngine.UIElements.UIR.RenderChain.Render () (at <f23cc42ed8af4b73afc7c74ab921aa08>:0)
UnityEngine.UIElements.UIRRepaintUpdater.Update () (at <f23cc42ed8af4b73afc7c74ab921aa08>:0)
UnityEngine.UIElements.VisualTreeUpdater.UpdateVisualTreePhase (UnityEngine.UIElements.VisualTreeUpdatePhase phase) (at <f23cc42ed8af4b73afc7c74ab921aa08>:0)
UnityEngine.UIElements.Panel.UpdateForRepaint () (at <f23cc42ed8af4b73afc7c74ab921aa08>:0)
UnityEngine.UIElements.Panel.Repaint (UnityEngine.Event e) (at <f23cc42ed8af4b73afc7c74ab921aa08>:0)
UnityEngine.UIElements.UIElementsUtility.DoDispatch (UnityEngine.UIElements.BaseVisualElementPanel panel) (at <f23cc42ed8af4b73afc7c74ab921aa08>:0)
UnityEngine.UIElements.UIElementsUtility.UnityEngine.UIElements.IUIElementsUtility.ProcessEvent (System.Int32 instanceID, System.IntPtr nativeEventPtr, System.Boolean& eventHandled) (at <f23cc42ed8af4b73afc7c74ab921aa08>:0)
UnityEngine.UIElements.UIEventRegistration.ProcessEvent (System.Int32 instanceID, System.IntPtr nativeEventPtr) (at <f23cc42ed8af4b73afc7c74ab921aa08>:0)
UnityEngine.UIElements.UIEventRegistration+<>c.<.cctor>b__1_2 (System.Int32 i, System.IntPtr ptr) (at <f23cc42ed8af4b73afc7c74ab921aa08>:0)
UnityEngine.GUIUtility.ProcessEvent (System.Int32 instanceID, System.IntPtr nativeEventPtr, System.Boolean& result) (at <f0d008a86f5e41eda07a8cec48955104>:0)

 

The root cause was that Visual Scripting keeps track of its own location by searching for an asset GUID of a folder, but I don't track those in source control because so far they've only made deleting directories harder. Still, error spam is never okay.

For myself, I fixed it like this:

Code (CSharp):

1. // It's okay to cache this because moving the Visual Scripting package around will
2. // cause a domain reload which means the variable will be reset.
3. private static string _packageRootPath;
4.  
5. public static string GetPackageRootPath()
6. {
7.     if (_packageRootPath == null)
8.     {
9.         // We don't store meta files of folders in source control, so we can't search by GUID.
10.         string packageEditorAssetPath = AssetDatabase.GetAllAssetPaths()
11.             .FirstOrDefault(i => i.EndsWith("/com.unity.visualscripting/Editor", StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase));
12.  
13.         if (packageEditorAssetPath == null)
14.             throw new FileNotFoundException($"Couldn't find Visual Scripting package folder.");
15.  
16.         // The root VS folder path is 1 directories up from our Editor folder
17.         _packageRootPath = Path.GetDirectoryName(packageEditorAssetPath);
18.     }
19.  
20.     return _packageRootPath;
21. }