Receiving error: "New-IntuneWinPackage : The type initializer for 'PerTypeValues`1' threw an exception." about contentprep

[svrooij]

Someone warned me about the fact that supporting regular Powershell will make your life as a developer so much harder.

[svrooij]

1. You should not package to a sub folder of the folder you want to package.

I do agree that it could give a better error message, and that is should check that the destination is not in the source

[juharuotsalainen]

Using the same folder for source and destination (and also using full path for setup) did not solve the issue:

PS C:\Program Files\WindowsPowerShell\Scripts> New-IntuneWinPackage -SourcePath "C:\temp\" -DestinationPath "C:\temp\" -SetupFile "C:\temp\test.exe" -verbose -Debug
VERBOSE: Begin creating package
VERBOSE: Trying to create package for C:\temp\test.exe

Confirm
The type initializer for 'PerTypeValues`1' threw an exception.
[Y] Yes  [A] Yes to All  [H] Halt Command  [S] Suspend  [?] Help (default is "Y"): y
New-IntuneWinPackage : The type initializer for 'PerTypeValues`1' threw an exception.
At line:1 char:1
+ New-IntuneWinPackage -SourcePath "C:\temp\" -DestinationPath "C:\temp ...
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    + CategoryInfo          : InvalidOperation: (:) [New-IntuneWinPackage], TypeInitializationException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : 1,SvR.ContentPrep.Cmdlet.NewIntuneWinPackageCommand

Is it possible I'm missing some dependencies? I tried installing recent versions of .NET SDK's and frameworks to no avail.

I'm running Windows 10 Enterprise, 22H2 version.

[juharuotsalainen]

Here's the inner exception:

PS C:\Program Files\WindowsPowerShell\Scripts> $Error[0].Exception.InnerException
Could not load file or assembly 'System.Runtime.CompilerServices.Unsafe, Version=4.0.4.1,
Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a' or one of its dependencies. The system
cannot find the file specified.

[svrooij]

Are you running Powershell core or regular Powershell?

And you cannot package to the same folder!

Source c:\temp\source\....
Destination c:\temp\destination\...

[juharuotsalainen]

Same error even with New-IntuneWinPackage -SourcePath "C:\temp\source" -DestinationPath "C:\temp\destination" -SetupFile "C:\temp\source\test.exe" -verbose -Debug

I'm running the regular PowerShell that came bundled with Windows.

[juharuotsalainen]

With PowerShell 7 it works great, thanks for the suggestion.