[windows-2022] WSL fails to install distribution image in Azure DevOps Pipelines

Description

Running a pipeline which attempts to install a WSL distribution image on windows-2022 is seeing failures.

Platforms affected

[X] Azure DevOps
[ ] GitHub Actions - Standard Runners
[ ] GitHub Actions - Larger Runners

Runner images affected

[ ] Ubuntu 20.04
[ ] Ubuntu 22.04
[ ] Ubuntu 24.04
[ ] macOS 12
[ ] macOS 13
[ ] macOS 13 Arm64
[ ] macOS 14
[ ] macOS 14 Arm64
[ ] macOS 15
[ ] macOS 15 Arm64
[ ] Windows Server 2019
[X] Windows Server 2022

Image version and build link

20241015.1.0

Is it regression?

Yes, 20240310.1.0 is OK.

Expected behavior

Run a pipeline which attempts to install a WSL image like Ubuntu-22.04 on windows-2022

Actual behavior

Result of running wsl --install -d Ubuntu-22.04

wsl --install --distribution Ubuntu-22.04 --web-download --no-launch
Downloading: Ubuntu 22.04 LTS

Installing: Ubuntu 22.04 LTS

There are no more endpoints available from the endpoint mapper. 

Error code: Wsl/InstallDistro/0x800706d9

Repro steps

jobs:
  - job: TryWsl
    pool:
      name: Azure Pipelines
      vmImage: windows-2022

    steps:
      - pwsh: |
          $distribution = "Ubuntu-22.04"
          Write-Host "wsl --update --web-download" 
          $wslupd = wsl --update --web-download | Out-String
          $wslupd
          if ($wslupd) {
            Write-Host "wsl --version" 
            wsl --version
            Write-Host "wsl --status" 
            wsl --status 
            Write-Host "wsl --set-default-version 1" 
            wsl --set-default-version 1
            Write-Host "wsl --status" 
            wsl --status 
            Write-Host "wsl --install --distribution $distribution --web-download --no-launch" 
            wsl --install --distribution $distribution --web-download --no-launch
          }

        displayName: Install WSL

actions / runner-images

[windows-2022] WSL fails to install distribution image in Azure DevOps Pipelines #10837