René's URL Explorer Experiment

{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"Start-Process fails to launch new powershell.exe instance with -UseNewEnvironment switch","articleBody":"Steps to reproduce\r\n------------------\r\nI dont know why would anyone do this, but here it goes: you cannot launch another `powershell.exe` using `Start-Process` cmdlet with `-UseNewEnvironment` switch.\r\n\r\nWindows PowerShell:\r\n```\r\nStart-Process -FilePath C:\\Windows\\System32\\WindowsPowerShell\\v1.0\\powershell.exe -NoNewWindow -UseNewEnvironment\r\n```\r\n\r\nPowerShell Core (Debug build):\r\n```\r\nStart-Process -FilePath .\\powershell.exe -NoNewWindow -UseNewEnvironment\r\n```\r\n\r\nExpected behavior\r\n-----------------\r\nA new instance of powershell.exe console should start.\r\n\r\nActual behavior\r\n---------------\r\nWindows PowerShell outputs error and dies:\r\n```\r\nInternal Windows PowerShell error.  Loading managed Windows PowerShell failed with error 8009001d.\r\n```\r\n\r\nPowerShell Core (Debug build) outputs more errors + assert message and dies:\r\n```\r\nError resolving full path []\r\nError resolving full path []\r\nPowerShell\r\nCopyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.\r\n\r\nThe shell cannot be started. A failure occurred during initialization:\r\nASSERT: caller makes sure it's not null or empty\r\n```\r\n\r\nEnvironment data\r\n----------------\r\n\r\n\u003c!-- provide the output of $PSVersionTable --\u003e\r\n\r\n```powershell\r\n\u003e $PSVersionTable\r\nName                           Value\r\n----                           -----\r\nPSVersion                      5.1.14409.1005\r\nPSEdition                      Desktop\r\nPSCompatibleVersions           {1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0...}\r\nBuildVersion                   10.0.14409.1005\r\nCLRVersion                     4.0.30319.42000\r\nWSManStackVersion              3.0\r\nPSRemotingProtocolVersion      2.3\r\nSerializationVersion           1.1.0.1\r\n\r\n\u003e $PSVersionTable\r\nName                           Value\r\n----                           -----\r\nPSVersion                      6.0.0-alpha\r\nGitCommitId                    v6.0.0-alpha.18-9-g8d4db01a5d4b5dcd981ef216d3d7f24b484c7c60-dirty\r\nWSManStackVersion              3.0\r\nCLRVersion\r\nPSCompatibleVersions           {1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0...}\r\nBuildVersion                   3.0.0.0\r\nPSRemotingProtocolVersion      2.3\r\nPSEdition                      Core\r\nSerializationVersion           1.1.0.1\r\n```","author":{"url":"https://github.com/0xfeeddeadbeef","@type":"Person","name":"0xfeeddeadbeef"},"datePublished":"2017-04-12T19:58:47.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":4},"url":"https://github.com/3545/PowerShell/issues/3545"}