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    • Apr 26, 2023
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wsl error: <3>WSL (8) ERROR: CreateProcessEntryCommon:370: getpwuid(0) failed 2



This post shows a workaround to get WSL working again if you see an effort that starts with "Processing fstab with mount -a failed."

Steps

After running:

wsl

If you see:

Processing fstab with mount -a failed.

<3>WSL (8) ERROR: CreateProcessEntryCommon:370: getpwuid(0) failed 2
<3>WSL (8) ERROR: CreateProcessEntryCommon:374: getpwuid(0) failed 2
<3>WSL (8) ERROR: CreateProcessEntryCommon:577: execvpe /bin/sh failed 2
<3>WSL (8) ERROR: CreateProcessEntryCommon:586: Create process not expected to return

Run:

wsl --list

If you see docker-desktop-data set as the default:

Windows Subsystem for Linux Distributions:
docker-desktop-data (Default)
docker-desktop
Debian

Run:

wsl -s Debian

You should see the following:

The operation completed successfully.

Now you can run:

wsl

And wsl should run:

username@LAPTOP-3MCNKKJO:/mnt/c/Users/Zach Pfeffer$

Computer Configuration

wsl --status
# Default Distribution: docker-desktop-data
# Default Version: 2

wsl -v
# WSL version: 1.2.5.0
# Kernel version: 5.15.90.1
# WSLg version: 1.0.51
# MSRDC version: 1.2.3770
# Direct3D version: 1.608.2-61064218
# DXCore version: 10.0.25131.1002-220531-1700.rs-onecore-base2-hyp
# Windows version: 10.0.19045.2846

References


bash fails on WSL2: filesystem mounting error #5923


docker-desktop-data isn't a Linux distro (?) so it should not be settable as a default distro by wsl2 #8727


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