Sublime Text 2 packages ignored

Question

So after switching over to Sublime Text last year, it has become my editor of choice, and I have installed several different packages via the excellent Package Control and basically customized it all to my liking. After a couple months of infrequent use, I jumped back into a code-intensive project and fired up ST2 only to find that none of my packages are working.

After some digging, it finally occurred to me to open my preferences file, only to find all of my installed packages in the "ignored_packages" list. WTF?

Has anyone else experienced this or know what would have caused this? I do some funny things in my sleep sometimes, but not this!

Answer 1

My earlier comment notwithstanding, I think I've figured out what's going on. The issue seems to be Package Control, most likely the new version update to 2.0. I just restarted ST2 after having it open for the past few days, and happened to have the console (Ctrl`) open, and saw that several of my packages, including Tag, Terminal, and SublimeREPL, were added to the ignored packages list. This typically happens when a package is being updated or removed, and is done so it can't be used halfway through the operation before everything is synced. At any rate, for me there was some sort of error, and I had to force quit Sublime and restart it. I immediately checked my preferences, and sure enough several packages were in the "ignored_packages" array.

So, I'm guessing something like this happened to you, and for whatever reason the packages weren't removed from the ignored list, possibly because the system update didn't complete normally. Hopefully this won't happen again, but if it does you'll know where to look. Additionally, if it does happen again, I'd submit an issue on Github, as this may be a bug.

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Update

My issue on Github has been merged into this one, and if you scroll all the way down to the bottom wbond has a fix for now: Download Package Control 2.0.1-beta, put it in your Installed Packages folder (removing the one that's already there), and adding the repository https://sublime.wbond.net/prerelease/packages.json by selecting Preferences -> Package Control -> Add Repository. Restart ST2, and see what happens, especially after restarting multiple times. If you still have bugs or odd behavior, please add to the issue.

Answer 2

I am adding this even if it's an old thread because the answer did not solved my problem, but it pointed me in the right direction.

Since it was a problem due to Package Control trying to update packages and I didn't want to mess with repos and stuff, first I tried to upgrade the packages "manually" using Package Control and I noticed that there was a 1-to-1 match between the items in the ignored_packages array and the packages that needed to be upgraded.

After updating, just remove the packages from the array and restart ST2: no more weird ignored packages in the array.