Problem running code and code-insiders on Ubuntu distro 23.04

[mwoodpatrick]

Windows Version

Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.22624.1391]

WSL Version

1.1.3.0

Are you using WSL 1 or WSL 2?

• WSL 2
• WSL 1

Kernel Version

No response

Distro Version

Un

Other Software

No response

Repro Steps

Download ubuntu distro:

wget https://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/lunar/current/lunar-server-cloudimg-amd64-root.tar.xz

wsl --import westie_lunar westie_lunar lunar-server-cloudimg-amd64-root.tar.xz

Expected Behavior

code and code insiders should be startable from inside the distro

Actual Behavior

which code
/mnt/c/Users/mlwp/AppData/Local/Programs/Microsoft VS Code/bin/code

which code-insiders
	/mnt/c/Users/mlwp/AppData/Local/Programs/Microsoft VS Code Insiders/bin/code-insiders
	
code .bashrc
	/mnt/c/Users/mlwp/AppData/Local/Programs/Microsoft VS Code/bin/code: 61: /mnt/c/Users/mlwp/AppData/Local/Programs/Microsoft VS Code/Code.exe: Exec format error


code
	/mnt/c/Users/mlwp/AppData/Local/Programs/Microsoft VS Code/bin/code: 61: /mnt/c/Users/mlwp/AppData/Local/Programs/Microsoft VS Code/Code.exe: Exec format error

code-insiders
	/mnt/c/Users/mlwp/AppData/Local/Programs/Microsoft VS Code Insiders/bin/code-insiders: 61: /mnt/c/Users/mlwp/AppData/Local/Programs/Microsoft VS Code Insiders/Code - Insiders.exe: Exec format error

Running from windows and opening distro

[2023-03-12 15:59:36.334] Resolving wsl+westie_lunar, resolveAttempt: 1
[2023-03-12 15:59:37.218] Starting VS Code Server inside WSL (wsl2)
[2023-03-12 15:59:37.218] Extension version: 0.76.1
[2023-03-12 15:59:37.218] Windows build: 22624. Multi distro support: available. WSL path support: enabled
[2023-03-12 15:59:37.219] No shell environment set or found for current distro.
[2023-03-12 15:59:37.635] WSL daemon log file:
[2023-03-12 15:59:37.638] Probing if server is already installed: C:\WINDOWS\System32\wsl.exe -d westie_lunar -e sh -c "if [ -d ~/.vscode-server/bin/5e805b79fcb6ba4c2d23712967df89a089da575b ]; then printf 'install-found '; fi; if [ -f /etc/alpine-release ]; then printf alpine-; fi; uname -m"
[2023-03-12 16:00:08.311] Unable to detect if server is already installed: Error: Command failed: C:\WINDOWS\System32\wsl.exe -d westie_lunar -e sh -c "if [ -d ~/.vscode-server/bin/5e805b79fcb6ba4c2d23712967df89a089da575b ]; then printf 'install-found '; fi; if [ -f /etc/alpine-release ]; then printf alpine-; fi; uname -m"
[2023-03-12 16:00:08.311] A connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly respond after a period of time, or established connection failed because connected host has failed to respond.
[2023-03-12 16:00:08.311] Error code: Wsl/Service/0x8007274c
[2023-03-12 16:00:08.311]
[2023-03-12 16:00:08.312] Launching C:\WINDOWS\System32\wsl.exe -d westie_lunar sh -c '"$VSCODE_WSL_EXT_LOCATION/scripts/wslServer.sh" 5e805b79fcb6ba4c2d23712967df89a089da575b stable code-server .vscode-server --host=127.0.0.1 --port=0 --connection-token=2709892688-3028382815-892257566-4007814312 --use-host-proxy --without-browser-env-var --disable-websocket-compression --accept-server-license-terms --telemetry-level=all'
[2023-03-12 16:00:08.506] Catastrophic failure
[2023-03-12 16:00:08.506] Error code: Wsl/Service/E_UNEXPECTED
[2023-03-12 16:00:08.506]
[2023-03-12 16:00:08.507] VS Code Server for WSL closed unexpectedly.
[2023-03-12 16:00:08.507] For help with startup problems, go to https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/remote/troubleshooting#_wsl-tips
[2023-03-12 16:00:08.517] WSL Daemon exited with code 0
[2023-03-12 16:00:32.662] Download in background is enabled

Diagnostic Logs

No response

[elsaco]

@mwoodpatrick the VS Code Server fails to install inside your instance. Using the latest lunar-server-cloudimg it didn't repro on my system.

This is output when running code on Windows side:

VSCode log

[2023-03-12 18:10:08.209] Resolving wsl+Lunar, resolveAttempt: 1 [2023-03-12 18:10:08.303] Starting VS Code Server inside WSL (wsl2) [2023-03-12 18:10:08.303] Extension version: 0.76.1 [2023-03-12 18:10:08.303] Windows build: 19045. Multi distro support: available. WSL path support: enabled [2023-03-12 18:10:08.303] No shell environment set or found for current distro. [2023-03-12 18:10:08.407] WSL daemon log file: [2023-03-12 18:10:08.407] Probing if server is already installed: C:\Windows\System32\wsl.exe -d Lunar -e sh -c "if [ -d ~/.vscode-server/bin/5e805b79fcb6ba4c2d23712967df89a089da575b ]; then printf 'install-found '; fi; if [ -f /etc/alpine-release ]; then printf alpine-; fi; uname -m" [2023-03-12 18:10:11.337] Probing result: x86_64 [2023-03-12 18:10:11.337] No server install found in WSL, needs linux-x64 [2023-03-12 18:10:11.338] Launching C:\Windows\System32\wsl.exe -d Lunar sh -c '"$VSCODE_WSL_EXT_LOCATION/scripts/wslServer.sh" 5e805b79fcb6ba4c2d23712967df89a089da575b stable code-server .vscode-server --host=127.0.0.1 --port=0 --connection-token=1481452266-1054740942-4059009518-3605358721 --use-host-proxy --without-browser-env-var --disable-websocket-compression --accept-server-license-terms --disable-telemetry --telemetry-level=off' [2023-03-12 18:10:11.652] Setting up server environment: Looking for /root/.vscode-server/server-env-setup. Not found. [2023-03-12 18:10:11.652] WSL version: 5.15.90.1-microsoft-standard-WSL2 Lunar [2023-03-12 18:10:11.652] Installing VS Code Server from tar available at /mnt/c/Users/valli/AppData/Local/Temp/vscode-remote-wsl/5e805b79fcb6ba4c2d23712967df89a089da575b/vscode-server-stable-linux-x64.tar.gz [2023-03-12 18:10:12.870] Unpacking: 0% 1% 2% 3% 4% 5% 6% 7% 8% 9% 10% 11% 12% 13% 14% 15% 16% 17% 18% [2023-03-12 18:10:13.172] 19% 20% 21% 22% 23% 24% 25% 26% 27% 28% 29% 30% 31% 32% 33% 34% 35% 36% 37% 38% 39% 40% 41% 42% 43% 44% 45% 46% 47% 48% 49% 50% 51% 52% 53% 54% 55% 56% 57% 58% 59% 60% 61% 62% 63% 64% 65% 66% 67% 68% [2023-03-12 18:10:13.487] 69% 70% 71% 72% 73% 74% 75% 76% 77% 78% 79% 80% 81% 82% 83% 84% 85% 86% 87% 88% 89% 90% 91% 92% 93% 94% 95% 96% 97% 98% 99% [2023-03-12 18:10:14.090] 100% [2023-03-12 18:10:14.090] Unpacked 2399 files and folders to /root/.vscode-server/bin/5e805b79fcb6ba4c2d23712967df89a089da575b. [2023-03-12 18:10:14.090] WSL-shell-PID: 14 [2023-03-12 18:10:14.090] Node executable: /root/.vscode-server/bin/5e805b79fcb6ba4c2d23712967df89a089da575b/node [2023-03-12 18:10:14.090] Starting server: /root/.vscode-server/bin/5e805b79fcb6ba4c2d23712967df89a089da575b/bin/code-server --host=127.0.0.1 --port=0 --connection-token=1481452266-1054740942-4059009518-3605358721 --use-host-proxy --without-browser-env-var --disable-websocket-compression --accept-server-license-terms --disable-telemetry --telemetry-level=off [2023-03-12 18:10:14.090] * [2023-03-12 18:10:14.090] * Visual Studio Code Server [2023-03-12 18:10:14.090] * [2023-03-12 18:10:14.090] * By using the software, you agree to [2023-03-12 18:10:14.090] * the Visual Studio Code Server License Terms (https://aka.ms/vscode-server-license) and [2023-03-12 18:10:14.090] * the Microsoft Privacy Statement (https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-US/privacystatement). [2023-03-12 18:10:14.090] * [2023-03-12 18:10:14.090] Server bound to 127.0.0.1:46659 (IPv4) [2023-03-12 18:10:14.090] Extension host agent listening on 46659 [2023-03-12 18:10:14.090] [2023-03-12 18:10:14.096] Started local proxy server on 54444. [2023-03-12 18:10:14.096] WSL resolver response: 127.0.0.1:54444 [2023-03-12 18:10:14.096] To debug connection issues, open a local browser on http://127.0.0.1:54444/version [2023-03-12 18:10:14.096] Using 'wslExeProxy' to connect to the VS Code server as configured by setting 'remote.WSL2.connectionMethod' [2023-03-12 18:10:14.096] 'wslExeProxy' should fix reconnection issues after sleep and network adapter changes. [2023-03-12 18:10:14.096] Please report issues related with the new setting to https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-remote-release/issues/5894 [2023-03-12 18:10:14.096] To revert back to the old way of connecting, change setting 'remote.WSL2.connectionMethod' to 'wsl2VMAddress'. [2023-03-12 18:10:14.635] Download in background is enabled

and this lines are of interest:

[2023-03-12 18:10:11.337] No server install found in WSL, needs linux-x64
[2023-03-12 18:10:11.338] Launching C:\Windows\System32\wsl.exe -d Lunar sh -c '"$VSCODE_WSL_EXT_LOCATION/scripts/wslServer.sh" 5e805b79fcb6ba4c2d23712967df89a089da575b stable code-server .vscode-server --host=127.0.0.1 --port=0 --connection-token=1481452266-1054740942-4059009518-3605358721 --use-host-proxy --without-browser-env-var --disable-websocket-compression --accept-server-license-terms --disable-telemetry --telemetry-level=off'

No server found, install a new one. Why is your log referring Alpine Linux if you're using Ubuntu? Is alpine your default WSL distro?

[mwoodpatrick]

Disabling fixes the issue so seems related to [WSL2][systemd][interop] Unable to Execute Windows Binary when systemd enabled · Issue #8843 · microsoft/WSL (github.com)

However, I get

wget https://github.com/arkane-systems/bottle-imp/blob/master/othersrc/usr-lib/binfmt.d/WSLInterop.conf
--2023-03-14 11:47:13-- https://github.com/arkane-systems/bottle-imp/blob/master/othersrc/usr-lib/binfmt.d/WSLInterop.conf
Resolving github.com (github.com)... 192.30.255.112
Connecting to github.com (github.com)|192.30.255.112|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found
2023-03-14 11:47:13 ERROR 404: Not Found.

arkane-systems/bottle-imp: A spinoff of genie to supplement WSL's new built-in systemd support. (github.com)

[Dragon1573]

Windows Version

Microsoft Windows 11 Professional 22H2 (10.0.22621.1555)

WSL Version

v1.2.5.0

Are you using WSL 1 or WSL 2?

• WSL1
• WSL2

Kernel Version

v5.15.90.1

Distro Version

Ubuntu 23.04 Lunar Lobster

Other software

Nothing related.

Reproduce steps

1. Normally running Ubuntu 22.10 Kinetic Kudu
2. Execute do-release-upgrade and automatically upgrading to 23.04
3. (Accidentally) the WSL2 exited, relaunch the instance and this issue occurs

Expected Behaviour

All the same as running 22.10 instance.

Actual Behaviour

Unable to run code, typora and other Windows applications. Important WSLInterop application is missing.

Diagnostic Logs

Nope.

[DeForestDiamond]

WSL extension in vs code only adds the server to your distro if they are installed within a two-week of it. So, anything installed after doesn't get it.

uninstall the WSL extension in VS Code, restart VS Code, install WSL extension, reboot your computer, open your distro and type code .

I didn't see this till after I had done the above, but this may also work: find the WSL extension, click on the settings "gear", go to extension settings, to the left of "Remote.WSL: Download in Background" there is another settings "gear" click it (if its not there move your mouse over that area and it will appear), hit reset setting, reboot and see if it worked. If not do option one.

[jdblischak]

@DeForestDiamond Thanks for sharing your experience. I tried both of your suggested workarounds and neither worked for me. I had to resort to running this one-liner to fix the problem: #8843 (comment)

Though I'm confused why this error just surfaced today, since I enabled systemd support in WSL a while ago

[microsoft-github-policy-service]

This issue has been automatically closed since it has not had any activity for the past year. If you're still experiencing this issue please re-file this as a new issue or feature request.

Thank you!