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Error line during ExtractPrograms

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Difficulty
2/5
Estimated time
1-3 hours
Newbie friendliness
70/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Active
Tech stack
powershell, shell, xml
Domain
tooling

Research direction

Read install/ExtractPrograms.ps1 around lines 156–165, where the manifest is loaded as XML and the conversion fails for malformed input. Reproduce with a manifest whose DisplayName tag is unclosed, then check how the script handles that manifest. Done means extraction continues safely past the malformed manifest; the issue suggests wrapping these lines in try-catch.

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What happened?

Error lines in ~/.local/share/winapps/detected:

Cannot convert value "System.Object[]" to type "System.Xml.XmlDocument". Error: "The 'DisplayName' start tag on line 5 
position 6 does not match the end of 'Properties'. Line 8, position 5."
At \\tsclient\home\.local\share\winapps\ExtractPrograms.ps1:156 char:2
+     [xml]$manifest = Get-Content $manifestPath
+     ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    + CategoryInfo          : InvalidArgument: (:) [], RuntimeException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : InvalidCastToXmlDocument

At https://github.com/winapps-org/winapps/blob/42c7e8318280c6fc3426c7afebfc7f43b895f4c8/install/ExtractPrograms.ps1#L156-L165

It is fine if wrap these lines with try-catch

Your FreeRDP version and where you got it from

FreeRDP 3.10 (nixpkgs)

Your Linux distribution and version

Debian Buster

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  • I am running the latest version.
  • To the best of my knowledge, this is a bug and not a setup nor a FreeRDP problem.
  • I have checked for duplicate issues.
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