Exception at creating System.Net.Http.HttpClient without libcurl3 in ubuntu-16.04 #1937
Description
Steps to reproduce
- create minimum ubuntu-16.04 env with vagrant
- do https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/blob/master/docs/installation/linux.md#ubuntu-1604
- run powershell
- execute
New-Object System.Net.Http.HttpClient
Expected behavior
output the following text
DefaultRequestHeaders BaseAddress Timeout MaxResponseContentBufferSize
--------------------- ----------- ------- ----------------------------
{} 00:01:40 2147483647
Actual behavior
occured following exception
New-Object : Exception calling ".ctor" with "0" argument(s): "The type
initializer for 'System.Net.Http.CurlHandler' threw an exception."
At line:1 char:1
+ New-Object System.Net.Http.HttpClient
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : InvalidOperation: (:) [New-Object], MethodInvoca
tionException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : ConstructorInvokedThrowException,Microsoft.Power
Shell.Commands.NewObjectCommand
and do not work the PowerShellGet module commands(Find-Module,Install-Module,etc)
Environment data
> $PSVersionTable
Name Value
---- -----
PSVersion 6.0.0-alpha
PSEdition Core
PSCompatibleVersions {1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0...}
BuildVersion 3.0.0.0
GitCommitId v6.0.0-alpha.9
CLRVersion
WSManStackVersion 3.0
PSRemotingProtocolVersion 2.3
SerializationVersion 1.1.0.1
Finally,I resolved it by installing libcurl3 package by apt-get.
I guess it is caused by dependency of System.Net.Http.CurlHandler.