Update-Help fails silently for UICulture en-GB #17696
Description
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Steps to reproduce
Help pages for about_topics are missing and cannot be downloaded on en-GB locale. Verbose output shows only redirects and zero downloads. Issue can be fixed by passing -UICulture en-US to Update-Help. I understand that the help pages are set to specific locale, but if it causes them to be completely missing in a different locale of same language, it's a bad user experience. Either show a warning "Help pages for UICulture en-GB not found, but available in en-US, try calling with -UICulture en-US", or just download them automatically. Get-Help already works with partial locale matches, just Update-Help needs fixing.
> Get-UICulture
LCID Name DisplayName
---- ---- -----------
2057 en-GB English (United Kingdom)
> Update-Help -Force -VerboseExpected behavior
> Get-Help about_operators
ABOUT_OPERATORS
Short description
Describes the operators that are supported by PowerShell.Actual behavior
> Get-Help about_operators
Get-Help: Get-Help could not find about_operators in a help file in this session. To download updated help topics type: "Update-Help". To get help online, search for the help topic in the TechNet library at https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=107116.Error details
> get-error
Exception :
Type : Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.HelpNotFoundException
ErrorRecord :
Exception :
Type : System.Management.Automation.ParentContainsErrorRecordException
Message : Get-Help could not find about_operators in a help file in this session.
To download updated help topics type: "Update-Help". To get help online, search for the help
topic in the TechNet library at https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=107116.
HResult : -2146233087
CategoryInfo : ResourceUnavailable: (:) [],
ParentContainsErrorRecordException
FullyQualifiedErrorId : HelpNotFound
ErrorDetails :
HelpTopic : about_operators
Message : Get-Help could not find about_operators in a help file in this session. To
download updated help topics type: "Update-Help". To get help online, search for the help
topic in the TechNet library at https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=107116.
HResult : -2146233087
CategoryInfo : ResourceUnavailable: (:) [Get-Help], HelpNotFoundException
FullyQualifiedErrorId : HelpNotFound,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.GetHelpCommand
InvocationInfo :
MyCommand : Get-Help
ScriptLineNumber : 1
OffsetInLine : 1
HistoryId : 8
Line : get-help about_operators
PositionMessage : At line:1 char:1
+ get-help about_operators
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
InvocationName : get-help
CommandOrigin : Internal
ScriptStackTrace : at <ScriptBlock>, <No file>: line 1
PipelineIterationInfo :Environment data
> $PSVersionTable
Name Value
---- -----
PSVersion 7.3.0-preview.5
PSEdition Core
GitCommitId 7.3.0-preview.5
OS Linux 5.15.0-1011-raspi #13-Ubuntu SMP PREEMPT Thu Jun 2 11:44…
Platform Unix
PSCompatibleVersions {1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0…}
PSRemotingProtocolVersion 2.3
SerializationVersion 1.1.0.1
WSManStackVersion 3.0Visuals
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