Windows 7 WMF 5.0 Prod preview Powershell get not working

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Hi guys,

I wish I could give you some better information about this, but here goes.

I am having problems getting powershellget to work properly on my windows 7 box. As soon as I try to use any of it it just refuses to do anything and I can do no more.

For example I start off with a Get-Module -ListAvailable which give me the following:

PS Z:\> Get-Module -ListAvailable


    Directory: C:\Program Files\WindowsPowerShell\Modules


ModuleType Version    Name                                ExportedCommands                                                                                
---------- -------    ----                                ----------------                                                                                
Binary     1.0.0.0    PackageManagement                   {Find-Package, Get-Package, Get-PackageProvider, Get-PackageSource...}                          
Script     1.0        PowerShellGet                       {Install-Module, Find-Module, Save-Module, Update-Module...}

So it seems to be there ready to go, so I follow up with a import-module on it and get the following

PS Z:\> Import-Module PowerShellGet -Verbose
VERBOSE: Loading module from path 'C:\Program Files\WindowsPowerShell\Modules\PowerShellGet\PowerShellGet.psd1'.
VERBOSE: Loading 'FormatsToProcess' from path 'C:\Program Files\WindowsPowerShell\Modules\PowerShellGet\PSGet.Format.ps1xml'.
VERBOSE: Loading module from path 'C:\Program Files\WindowsPowerShell\Modules\PowerShellGet\PSGet.psm1'.
VERBOSE: Importing function 'Find-Module'.
VERBOSE: Importing function 'Get-InstalledModule'.
VERBOSE: Importing function 'Get-PSRepository'.
VERBOSE: Importing function 'Install-Module'.
VERBOSE: Importing function 'Publish-Module'.
VERBOSE: Importing function 'Register-PSRepository'.
VERBOSE: Importing function 'Save-Module'.
VERBOSE: Importing function 'Set-PSRepository'.
VERBOSE: Importing function 'Uninstall-Module'.
VERBOSE: Importing function 'Unregister-PSRepository'.
VERBOSE: Importing function 'Update-Module'.
VERBOSE: Importing alias 'fimo'.
VERBOSE: Importing alias 'inmo'.
VERBOSE: Importing alias 'pumo'.
VERBOSE: Importing alias 'upmo'.

However now my powershell session is totally broken, auto-complete will not work anymore if I type Get-He tab it does not auto complete, if I do a Get-Module return nothing happens, the cursor is still there and I can continue to type, but it will not execute the command. If I hit Ctrl+C it will delete what I have typed but then if I type it again it will still do nothing. So need to close down powershell ise and open a new instance to get it working again.

So now we have our new ise I can try Find-Module DSC now the cursor moves onto the next line and it looks like it is working. However it just hangs like that for ever and does not complete. I can hit Ctrl+c to get back control and maybe I can execute a command again after that maybe not, possibly depends on how long I leave the Find-Module command running. If I can’t I need to close and open a new ise just like before.

Running the Find-Module command with -Verbose provides no output. :frowning:

Not really sure what I can do to find out what is going on with it.

There are a bunch of warning in the Applications and Services\Microsoft\Windows\Powershell\Operational event log when I do import-package PowershellGet or Find-Module: EventId:4104 TaskCategory: Execute a remote command but this does not seem to point to an error.

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I’ve not tested on Win7, but the correct procedure would be to stand up a fresh Win7 VM to test on. If you can duplicate the results, bug it on Connect.

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I have now tested this on a fresh install of windows 7 and it works fine. Obviously something to do with my box. I do remember when I ran Find-Module for the first time on my Win 7 machine I was expecting to be prompted to install nuget-anycpu.exe like I was prompted on the server box I was testing previously. I quite distinctly remember this didn’t happen. I ended up coping nuget-anycpu.exe to $env:ProgramFiles\PackageManagement\ProviderAssemblies in the hope that would work. When I ran it on the fresh windows 7 machine I was prompted to install it as expected.

I really hope I don’t have to do a reinstall on my development machine in order to get this working :confused: Does anyone know what powershellGet depends on? I have tried uninstalling and re-installing WMF 5.0 to no avail.