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Failed to update Help for the module(s) 'PSDesiredStateConfiguration' and 'ThreadJob'

See original GitHub issue

Steps to reproduce

(With Pwsh launched as elevated)

update-help

update-help -Module PSDesiredStateConfiguration -Verbose

Expected behavior

Update-help either updates or continues on

Actual behavior

update-help : Failed to update Help for the module(s) 'PSDesiredStateConfiguration' with UI culture(s) {en-US} : One or more errors occurred. (Response status code does not indicate success: 404 (Not Found).)                                                                                                    At line:1 char:1                                                                                                                                          + update-help -Module PSDesiredStateConfiguration -Verbose                                                                                                + ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo          : InvalidOperation: (:) [Update-Help], Exception
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : UnknownErrorId,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.UpdateHelpCommand

Environment data

Name                           Value
----                           -----
PSVersion                      7.0.0-preview.4
PSEdition                      Core
GitCommitId                    7.0.0-preview.4
OS                             Darwin 18.7.0 Darwin Kernel Version 18.7.0: Tue Aug 20 16:57:14 PDT 2019; root:xnu-4903.271.2~2/RELEASE_X86_64
Platform                       Unix
PSCompatibleVersions           {1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0…}
PSRemotingProtocolVersion      2.3
SerializationVersion           1.1.0.1
WSManStackVersion              3.0

Current module info:

    Directory: /usr/local/microsoft/powershell/7-preview/Modules

ModuleType Version    PreRelease Name                                PSEdition ExportedCommands
---------- -------    ---------- ----                                --------- ----------------

Script     2.0.3                 PSDesiredStateConfiguration         Core      {Configuration, New-DscChecksum, Get-DscResource, Invoke-DscResource}

As it’s a 404, I assume the help just doesn’t exist (or manifest has a bad URL or something), but I’m not familiar enough w/ the source to track that down yet.

Issue Analytics

State:
Created 4 years ago
Reactions:3
Comments:10 (2 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

3reactions

BreD1810commented, Jul 7, 2020

Also seeing the same for 7.0.2 on Ubuntu

PS /> update-help       
Update-Help: Failed to update Help for the module(s) 'PSDesiredStateConfiguration, ThreadJob' with UI culture(s) {en-GB} : One or more errors occurred. (Response status code does not indicate success: 404 (The specified blob does not exist.).).                                                                                                                                                                                        English-US help content is available and can be installed using: Update-Help -UICulture en-US.
PS /> $PSVersionTable                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
Name                           Value
----                           -----
PSVersion                      7.0.2
PSEdition                      Core
GitCommitId                    7.0.2
OS                             Linux 5.4.0-40-generic #44-Ubuntu SMP Tue Jun 23 00:01:04 UTC 2020
Platform                       Unix
PSCompatibleVersions           {1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0…}
PSRemotingProtocolVersion      2.3
SerializationVersion           1.1.0.1
WSManStackVersion              3.0

3reactions

bugrasancommented, Jun 27, 2020

still the same on 7.0.2

PS /> Update-Help -UICulture en-US
Update-Help: Failed to update Help for the module(s) 'PSDesiredStateConfiguration, ThreadJob' with UI culture(s) {en-US} : One or more errors occurred. (Response status code does not indicate success: 404 (The specified blob does not exist.).).                      English-US help content is available and can be installed using: Update-Help -UICulture en-US. 
PS /> $PSVersionTable                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     
Name                           Value
----                           -----
PSVersion                      7.0.2
PSEdition                      Core
GitCommitId                    7.0.2
OS                             Linux 5.6.16-1-MANJARO #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed Jun 3 14:26:28 UTC 2020
Platform                       Unix
PSCompatibleVersions           {1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0…}
PSRemotingProtocolVersion      2.3
SerializationVersion           1.1.0.1
WSManStackVersion              3.0