Script duplication / Upgrade issues

PowerShell Universal
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Product: PowerShell Universal
Version: 5.5.3 / 5.5.4

Good Morning,

We are currently running version 5.5.3. we have two issues:

  1. Yesterday I upgraded it to 5.5.4
  • According to my MSI logs the installation was successful but the console for PSU was just stuck at loading.

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  • I now rolled back to 5.5.3, and it is operating. But I am concerned, what went wrong? How to prevent it ?
  1. The other issue:
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  • it seems most script folder shows duplicates of the scripts
  • i.e. the one on the screenshot has one script physically on the file system, but shows the same script 8x on the PSU
  • (this is happening across all the folders, with all the scripts, so you can see how problematic is this)

Is there any way to prevent / reverse this?

Thanks,
Fabrice

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Typically, the spinning is a result of the server failing to start fully. You should check the system logs for Failed to Start PowerShell Universal.

As for the scripts duplicating, take a look in your scripts.ps1 in the universal folder to see if there are duplicate entries.

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I am seeing a very large number of duplicates in my scripts as well. I cleared them out yesterday, restarted, and scripts.ps1 didnt have duplicates but there were still several scripts duplicated in the GUI.

Just looked again today, and we have a very large number of duplicates in scripts.ps1 again. I think I worked with you on a similar issue sometime last year on an earlier version but the duplication stopped.

also.. Just upgraded from 5.5.3 to 5.5.4

Support email sent.. I included files form our environment so I didn’t want to open straight to Github

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I’ve open an issue to track this here: [5.5.4] Script Duplication · Issue #4847 · ironmansoftware/powershell-universal · GitHub

Do either of you have the Disable Auto Reload setting set in settings.ps1? I ask because in v5.6, I was seeing the file system watcher cause some weird behavior. Not duplication, but some inconsistencies in our integration tests. That said, I did not see this in 5.5.4, so it may be unrelated.

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We did not, but I just set it and will monitor

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Sorry for the late reply.

We currently run two instances. Both is on 5.5.4

  1. The “DEV” (which had these issues) I have rebuilt from scratch, and it is for now does not have duplicates (this was the one I initially wrote about).

the settings.ps1:

cat C:\ProgramData\UniversalAutomation\Repository\.universal\settings.ps1
$Parameters = @{
        EnhancedAppTokenSecurity = $true
        ApiSecurityModel = "Medium"
}
Set-PSUSetting @Parameters
  1. The “PROD” instance shows duplicates, and I see this in the settings:
PS C:\Users\admin-FSemti> cat C:\ProgramData\UniversalAutomation\Repository\.universal\settings.ps1
$Parameters = @{
        DefaultEnvironment = "Windows PowerShell 5.1"
        SessionTimeout = 0
        EnhancedAppTokenSecurity = $true
        ApiSecurityModel = "Medium"
        DefaultRunOn = "INFR-VL-RRX-01"
}
Set-PSUSetting @Parameters

Not sure if any of these related to the duplication?

On the “PROD”:

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This is in contrast with what the “repository” actually contains (no duplicates)

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I know the card is already closed and I had updated it there, but turning Disable Auto Reload on, stopping the service, and cleaning up the duplicates in the scripts.ps1 file, did fix the issue for 5.5.4.

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Yep, that done it.
Thanks for the input all.

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