installation in server mode fails with Error: 0x80070002 The system cannot find the file specified

[ghost]

• W10 Pro x_64 v2004 b19041.329
• WSL2 with 4.19.104-microsoft-standard #1 SMP Wed Feb 19 06:37:35 UTC 2020 x86_64 GNU/Linux
• FRfWSL 31.5.0

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Installation as per

• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install-on-server
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install-manual

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  fedoraremix.exe install --root

Unpacking Linux filesystem image, this may take a few minutes... WslRegisterDistribution failed with error: 0x80070002 Error: 0x80070002 The system cannot find the file specified

Same installation procedures with other distros works without exhibiting the issue and thus it would appear to be a bug specific to this distro.

wsl --list --verbose

  NAME          STATE           VERSION
* kali-linux    Running         2
  Debian        Running         2

[ghost]

Well, curious fix - moved fedoraremix.exe from \Fedora-Remix\DistroLauncher to \Fedora-Remix and the installation succeeded.

Looks a like an issue with packing fedoraremix.exe into the wrong path

[crramirez]

Hello.

This usually happens when C: is not configured as the default drive for new apps installations in Settings.

We will check what you did.

Thanks for reporting

Regards, Carlos

[ghost]

Did not run the appx installer but went with Extract and install a Linux distribution https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install-on-server#extract-and-install-a-linux-distribution on D:/wsl/Fedora-Remix

[crramirez]

Mmm OK thank you for the information. I have never tried this way.

[ghost]

It helps for more flexible disk(:partition) deployment of those containers.

The other distros are packing the binary into the root instead of \DistroLauncher and thus not exhibit the issue.