WSL2 fails to start

[Aerocatia]

Windows Version

Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.22621.2283]

WSL Version

2.0.0.0

Are you using WSL 1 or WSL 2?

• WSL 2
• WSL 1

Kernel Version

No response

Distro Version

Arch Linux

Other Software

No response

Repro Steps

I'm not sure what happened here. I upgraded to 2.0.0 and it seemed to work fine, however now WSL2 fails to start.

Catastrophic failure
Error code: Wsl/Service/E_UNEXPECTED

[process exited with code 4294967295 (0xffffffff)]
You can now close this terminal with Ctrl+D, or press Enter to restart.

Expected Behavior

WSL Starts

Actual Behavior

Does not start.

Diagnostic Logs

No response

[Aerocatia]

Logs: WslLogs-2023-09-26_00-05-01.zip

[benhillis]

@Aerocatia - looks like you have systemd enabled and executing /sbin/init is failing with errno 8 (ENOEXEC). I would suggest enabling safe mode and disabling systemd so you can see what's going on in your distro.

%userprofile%\.wslconfig

[wsl2]
safeMode=true

[Aerocatia]

After that it I get a different error.

sl: SAFE MODE ENABLED - many features will be disabled
<3>WSL (5) ERROR: CreateProcessEntryCommon:505: execvpe /bin/bash failed 5
<3>WSL (5) ERROR: CreateProcessEntryCommon:508: Create process not expected to return

[process exited with code 1 (0x00000001)]
You can now close this terminal with Ctrl+D, or press Enter to restart.

The system distro starts correctly if I run wsl --system, so somehow the distro instance broke.

[OneBlue]

Thank you @Aerocatia. Based on the logs it looks like your distribution is either corrupted, or not matching your CPU. Are running on arm ?

Does installing a distribution via wsl --install (wsl --install -d debian) work ?

[Aerocatia]

I am not using arm, it has always been x86_64.
I got it running again by importing an older copy of the exact same distro install from another computer. It still works after updating it, so I can only assume it was corrupted somehow.

I'll close this as the fault was with the installed Linux filesystem, although I'm not sure how that happened.

[Morrigan-Ship]

same problem
but when disabling safemod this error again