It's 99% disabled (for some reason, I suspect a bug in PC itself). Check your ignored_packages setting in the user settings file.

@wbond, maybe it's worth adding this to the troubleshooting section at packagecontrol.io?

same here, its not working on OSX, tried reinstalling package control of no avail.

Also trying to install it again I'm getting:
174110

I don't know what does that mean.

I figured out what the problem was. There seems to be some sort of bug that popped up during the most recent update so what you need to do is go into the default settings and scroll down to where it says "ignored packages" and remove Package Control from the ignored packages list. Then just restart Sublime. Hope this helps.

This fix worked for me ^
However instead of default mine appeared in user settings. removed and then restarted sublime now its running like a dime again.

Thansk for info, this method worked for me :)

👍

This issue and solution exists for ST2 as well!

Package Control was ignored in Settings - User for me as well.

Same for me it was an ignored package

Same here. Annoying bug!

@CLaBruno Thanks a lot for the heads up!

This happened to me as well after removing the sublime text 3 beta version and going back to using sublime text 2. Removing it from Settings - user worked for me.

Thanks for posting the resolution to this issue @FichteFoll . It saved me from more hours of frustration!

Anyone know why this happened in the first place?

I had this on ST3 for Xubuntu.

Thank god i arrived here too. Same problem for me, removed from ignored_packages and solved

Thanks

As of build 3076, Sublime Text prints the list of ignored packages on startup to help users diagnose a situation like this. Example output:

startup, version: 3076 osx x64 channel: dev
executable: /Applications/Sublime Text.app/Contents/MacOS/Sublime Text
working dir: /
packages path: /Users/wbond/Library/Application Support/Sublime Text 3/Packages
state path: /Users/wbond/Library/Application Support/Sublime Text 3/Local
zip path: /Applications/Sublime Text.app/Contents/MacOS/Packages
zip path: /Users/wbond/Library/Application Support/Sublime Text 3/Installed Packages
ignored_packages: ["Vintage"]
pre session restore time: 0.343877
using gpu buffer for window
first paint time: 0.480893
startup time: 0.519892

Also, there is wbond/packagecontrol.io#45 tracking the change to packagecontrol.io to tell users to check for this.

Hi,
the same issue - Packagae Control is not showing in Command Palette.
And ignored_packages does not have PC there. Only ["Tag", "Vintage"]

startup, version: 3083 osx x64 channel: stable
executable: /Applications/Sublime Text.app/Contents/MacOS/Sublime Text
working dir: /
packages path: /Users/salf/Library/Application Support/Sublime Text 3/Packages
state path: /Users/salf/Library/Application Support/Sublime Text 3/Local
zip path: /Applications/Sublime Text.app/Contents/MacOS/Packages
zip path: /Users/salf/Library/Application Support/Sublime Text 3/Installed Packages
ignored_packages: ["Tag", "Vintage"]
pre session restore time: 0.47122
first paint time: 0.598068
startup time: 1.03038
error: plugin_host has exited unexpectedly, plugin functionality won't be available until Sublime Text has been restarted

Thanks for helping

@salf This issue is closed.

Your issue seems to be that something is causing plugin_host to crash. Try https://www.sublimetext.com/docs/3/revert.html to get to a known good state and then try reinstalling packages one at a time. Be sure to save a copy of your old user folder so you do not lose any customizations.

Absolutely new install of ST3 without packages leads to plugin_host error and package control cannot be installed :( Something wrong with my system I guess...

@salf Did you try installing package control.Try this method and ask if you have any issues :

https://packagecontrol.io/installation

Same here, after a fresh install I can't install package_control:
error: plugin_host has exited unexpectedly, plugin functionality won't be available until Sublime Text has been restarted

Thanks a lot! removing Package Control from the ignored list works for me.But I am still confused about why PC is in the ignored list

@rrevanth It was unsuccessful install of PC (manually, by copied plugin into packages folder, and using script) - silent result with nonworking plugin.
What I did: updated xcode with installation of command tools, installed all security updates, fix all errors/warnings in homebrew.

Highly required a notification part of package_control or ST3, to be absolutely sure what's wrong!

Removing "package control" from "ignored_packages" in Sublimetext > Preferences > Settings - User worked for me.

I can't imagine how the package_control could get into ignoring list?? It's a most important and useful thing in Sublime Text

ignored_packages +1

it work for me! thanks!

For me; SublimeCodeIntel was crashing Package Control, so I ignored and then removed.

"ignored_packages":
[
	"Vintage",
    "SublimeCodeIntel"
],

Everything has gone OK.

Package control was showing up in ignored_packages. Works fine once removed from the ignored_packages

Yes, a bug in ignore packages in settings..definately. Thank you for all!

The very same bug exists in the just released Sublime Text 3.0
Going to Preferences -> Settings and removing the line containing [Package Control] in the "ignored_packages" section then restarting Sublime remedies it.

@ArthurZ

The very same bug exists in the just released Sublime Text 3.0
Going to Preferences -> Settings and removing the line containing [Package Control] in the "ignored_packages" section then restarting Sublime remedies it.

Then reinstall Package Control from https://packagecontrol.io/installation

It works to me.

Just comment out package control in Settings User > ignored packages

Just comment out package control in Settings User > ignored packages

package control is installed, not in ignored_packages array in settings but it's still not available

Ran into the today as well. Removed package control from ignored_packages and we're back in business.

package control is installed, not in ignored_packages array in settings but it's still not available

Win 10 - Just had to remove it from ignored_packages myself

Win 10 - Removed in the ingored packages

It had worked straight in the past while installing on Windows, but recently tried on MacOS had this issue. Thanks to @CLaBruno. Followed it under the default user settings, and removed package control from the list and it worked.

I recently updated to ST 3147 on OS X, and now discovered this issue. In settings - user I removed the package manager from the ignored packages, and there it is again. I swear I did not add it to the ignore list by myself.

Thanks! Same issue here (Build 3143).

Same bug happened to me on win8 x64 build 3143.

if you use Linux based system you may have to check permission table of your /home/[USER]/.config/sublime-text-3
check it all directory is own by your current USER. if not change USER for that directory.

and it will work for you.

Same issue，solved.
It was caused by other application's global key binding conflict.

Thanks, removing Package Control from Ignored Packages worked (MacOS High Sierra). Really appreciate the time savings of finding this answer.

same issue again :(

Dears, my error message:

DPI mode: per-monitor v2
startup, version: 3176 windows x64 channel: stable
executable: /C/Program Files/Sublime Text 3/sublime_text.exe
working dir: /C/Program Files/Sublime Text 3
packages path: /C/Users/hb2ar/AppData/Roaming/Sublime Text 3/Packages
state path: /C/Users/hb2ar/AppData/Roaming/Sublime Text 3/Local
zip path: /C/Program Files/Sublime Text 3/Packages
zip path: /C/Users/hb2ar/AppData/Roaming/Sublime Text 3/Installed Packages
ignored_packages: []
pre session restore time: 0.265958
startup time: 0.341958
first paint time: 0.346958
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Package Control: No updated packages

I removed 3 packages: PersistentPython, BioPythonUtils and Python Open Module (New) and package control has come back.

It is horrible to see that sublime text 3 included package control in the ignored package list in the settings. I spent 2 days to fix this. I really hate the author for making this disgusting change and wasting my time.

I have the same problem in fedora 28

I figured out what the problem was. There seems to be some sort of bug that popped up during the most recent update so what you need to do is go into the default settings and scroll down to where it says "ignored packages" and remove Package Control from the ignored packages list. Then just restart Sublime. Hope this helps.

This worked for me ^^^