DISM Languages and International Servicing Command-Line Options not working with offline image inside container

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#577 opened on Mar 23, 2025 12 comments 0 reactions 0 assignees View on GitHub

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Assessment

Difficulty: 4/5
Estimated time: 3-5 days
Newbie friendliness: 48/100

Issue type: Bug
Clarity: Mostly clear
Activity status: Active
Tech stack: docker
Domain: operating-systems

Research direction

Start with the WinPE update guidance in issue 494 and compare the language-servicing commands with the working Add-Package step. Then inspect dism.log around CDISMIntlManager and error 183. Done means reproducing the failure in the container and either identifying a supported correction or documenting the limitation and affected command-line options.

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Description

🔖 ADO question

I have been using the guidance in https://github.com/microsoft/Windows-Containers/issues/494 to update a WinPE image.

The Add-Package works to add features and updates.

I have tried to change the language but it returns an error.

Error: 87                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      
ERROR: dism.exe has encountered an error.

In the dism.log are entries:

Error                 DISM   DISM Intl Provider: PID=1112 TID=1572  - CDISMIntlManager::DisplayOfflineAPIError
Error                 DISM   DISM Intl Provider: PID=1112 TID=1572 ERROR: API call failed with following error(s): 183. - CDISMIntlManager::DisplayAPIErrorMessage
Error                 DISM   DISM Intl Provider: PID=1112 TID=1572 
	183 = Cannot create a file when that file already exists.

 - CDISMIntlManager::DisplayAPIErrorMessage
Error                 DISM   DISM Intl Provider: PID=1112 TID=1572 
ERROR: dism.exe has encountered an error.
 - CDISMIntlManager::DisplayOfflineAPIError

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