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microsoft / WSL-DistroLauncher

Sample/reference launcher app for WSL distro Microsoft Store packages.
MIT License
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WSL installer claims success even on failure #13

Closed zadjii-msft closed 7 years ago

zadjii-msft commented 7 years ago

MSFT:12254696

  1. Install distro (sideload or store, whatever)
  2. Register distro.
  3. Delete Distro's registration from lxss key (Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Lxss)
  4. Launch distro

Installing, this may take a few minutes... Installation successful! Please create a default UNIX user account. The username does not need to match your Windows username. For more information visit: https://aka.ms/wslusers Enter new UNIX username: foo Error: 0x80040302 Press any key to continue...