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Expanding VHDX broke my WSL #2022

Closed GavBurke closed 2 months ago

GavBurke commented 2 months ago

Type of issue

Code doesn't work

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I followed the expanding WSL2 VHDX and now I cannot launch wsl.exe at all, not even from an admin CMD, getting Access Denied in the CLI but a popup saying "This app can't run on your PC" BrokenWSL

Page URL

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/disk-space

Content source URL

https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/wsl/blob/main/WSL/disk-space.md

Author

@craigloewen-msft

Document Id

73eaaa84-4649-3c39-6116-1c62b713a4c3

crramirez commented 2 months ago

Try uninstalling the Window Subsytem for Linux app, restart and if the wsl command works again run wsl --update, this procedure won't destroy your linux installation

GavBurke commented 2 months ago

Try uninstalling the Window Subsytem for Linux app, restart and if the wsl command works again run wsl --update, this procedure won't destroy your linux installation

Will give this a try thanks. Opening the "Ubuntu on Windows" app itself actually does work and open WSL in fact, it's just the wsl.exe via Command Prompt/Powershell seems to now have the Access Denied.

GavBurke commented 2 months ago

I'm wondering if this was user or error, or even how this happened, but the problem turned out to be inside my users gavinbu folder, an empty wsl.exe had been created!! So then when I was running wsl.exe from a default cmd, it ran this wsl.exe instead of the one from the windows path, hence the error. Changing directory to say root of C:\ then allowed my wsl.exe -l -v still able to run, so this issue for me is now fixed, but not sure if those steps listed causes this, or it was me running an incorrect command....

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