WSL2 doesn't start (/HCS_E_CONNECTION_TIMEOUT) after installing Docker desktop

[rahulghangas]

Windows Version

Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.22621.2283]

WSL Version

1.2.5.0

Are you using WSL 1 or WSL 2?

• WSL 2
• WSL 1

Kernel Version

Default Distribution: Ubuntu Default Version: 2

Distro Version

No response

Other Software

Docker Desktop 4.23.0

Repro Steps

N/A

Expected Behavior

Should be able to access wsl2

Actual Behavior

The operation timed out because a response was not received from the virtual machine or container.
Error code: Wsl/Service/CreateInstance/HCS_E_CONNECTION_TIMEOUT

Diagnostic Logs

WslLogs-2023-09-26_17-32-22.zip

[OneBlue]

Thank you for reporting this @rahulghangas. Unfortunately it looks like the issue is that your distribution disk is corrupted:

79	False	Microsoft.Windows.Lxss.Manager	GuestLog	0	09-26-2023 05:02:50.278	"	"	"text: 	""[  515.260595] JBD2: Invalid checksum recovering data block 21927 in log ""
vmId: 	{04a7f618-e691-413e-9765-90e8b1e12902}"				5008	17024	5		00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000		
80	False	Microsoft.Windows.Lxss.Manager	GuestLog	0	09-26-2023 05:02:50.370	"	"	"text: 	""[  515.351993] JBD2: recovery failed ""
vmId: 	{04a7f618-e691-413e-9765-90e8b1e12902}"				5008	17024	5		00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000		
81	False	Microsoft.Windows.Lxss.Manager	GuestLog	0	09-26-2023 05:02:50.370	"	"	"text: 	""[  515.352336] EXT4-fs (sdc): error loading journal ""
vmId: 	{04a7f618-e691-413e-9765-90e8b1e12902}"				5008	17024	5		00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000		
82	False	Microsoft.Windows.Lxss.Manager	GuestLog	0	09-26-2023 05:02:50.373	"	"	"text: 	""[  515.355146] WSL (1) ERROR: UtilMount:1632: mount(/dev/sdc, /distro, ext4, 0x0, discard,errors=remount-ro,data=ordered ""
vmId: 	{04a7f618-e691-413e-9765-90e8b1e12902}"				5008	17024	5		00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000		

It looks like the file that's corrupted is C:\\Users\\rahul\\AppData\\Local\\Packages\\CanonicalGroupLimited.UbuntuonWindows_79rhkp1fndgsc\\LocalState

You can try these instructions to recover your disk, or if you don't need to recover data you can just reinstall a new distribution and delete the old one via wsl --unregister.