The contents of `/tmp` are cleared few seconds after start up

[LeonardoMor]

Windows Version

Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.22621.3737]

WSL Version

WSL version: 2.2.4.0 Kernel version: 5.15.153.1-2 WSLg version: 1.0.61 MSRDC version: 1.2.5326 Direct3D version: 1.611.1-81528511 DXCore version: 10.0.26091.1-240325-1447.ge-release Windows version: 10.0.22621.3737

Are you using WSL 1 or WSL 2?

• [X] WSL 2
• [ ] WSL 1

Kernel Version

Linux version 5.15.153.1-microsoft-standard-WSL2 (root@941d701f84f1) (gcc (GCC) 11.2.0, GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.37) #1 SMP Fri Mar 29 23:14:13 UTC 2024

Distro Version

NAME="Arch Linux" PRETTY_NAME="Arch Linux" ID=arch BUILD_ID=rolling VERSION_ID=20240101.0.204074 ANSI_COLOR="38;2;23;147;209" HOME_URL="https://archlinux.org/" DOCUMENTATION_URL="https://wiki.archlinux.org/" SUPPORT_URL="https://bbs.archlinux.org/" BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.archlinux.org/" PRIVACY_POLICY_URL="https://terms.archlinux.org/docs/privacy-policy/" LOGO=archlinux-logo

Other Software

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Repro Steps

1. On startup touch /tmp/file
2. Wait a few seconds. The file will be gone.

Expected Behavior

Feature parity to bare-metal Linux. That is, files created under /tmp on startup should not be removed after such a short period.

Actual Behavior

The file is removed.

I learned this because I use blesh. See this discussion

Diagnostic Logs

WslLogs-2024-07-02_20-47-17.zip

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• /tmp not being cleared on boot (#3406), similarity score: 0.74
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[LeonardoMor]

Related #8441

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Diagnostic information

``` Issue was edited and new log file was found: https://github.com/user-attachments/files/16076419/WslLogs-2024-07-02_20-47-17.zip Detected appx version: 2.2.4.0 ```

[akinomyoga]

This is the same issue as #8441, but #8441 is closed for some inactivity. It's not solved. The problem is not specific to ble.sh, but there are also problems with other frameworks.

• https://github.com/romkatv/gitstatus/issues/234#issuecomment-1097968209
• https://github.com/romkatv/gitstatus/issues/317
• https://github.com/romkatv/gitstatus/issues/325
• https://github.com/romkatv/gitstatus/issues/332
• https://github.com/romkatv/gitstatus/issues/333
• https://github.com/romkatv/gitstatus/issues/424
• https://github.com/akinomyoga/ble.sh/discussions/462

Clearing /tmp on startup of WSL is fine, but it should not happen after programs start to use /tmp. Clearing /tmp should be finished in the booting-up process of the system before any programs that may use /tmp start. The current behavior would affect all the programs that use /tmp in their initialization stage.

[OneBlue]

@LeonardoMor Do you have systemd enabled in your distro ?

This is most likely caused by the systemd-tmpfiles-clean.service unit. Can you try running:

systemctl mask systemd-tmpfiles-clean.service and see if that solves the issue ?

Also if doesn't, can you share the output of cat /proc/self/mountinfo before and after the file is deleted ?

[LeonardoMor]

systemd is indeed enabled:

❯ ps --no-headers -o comm 1
systemd

cat /proc/self/mountinfo before and after:

❯ printf '%s: %s: $ cat /proc/self/mountinfo\n%s\n' Before "$(date -Iseconds)" "$(cat /proc/self/mountinfo)"                                                                                                                                
Before: 2024-07-09T19:25:26-06:00: $ cat /proc/self/mountinfo                                                                                                                                                                               
74 82 0:26 / /mnt/wsl rw,relatime shared:1 - tmpfs none rw                                                                                                                                                                                  
75 82 0:28 / /usr/lib/wsl/drivers ro,nosuid,nodev,noatime - 9p drivers ro,dirsync,aname=drivers;fmask=222;dmask=222,mmap,access=client,msize=65536,trans=fd,rfd=7,wfd=7                                                                     
80 82 0:36 / /usr/lib/modules rw,relatime - tmpfs none rw                                                                                                                                                                                   
81 80 0:33 / /usr/lib/modules/5.15.153.1-microsoft-standard-WSL2 rw,nosuid,nodev,noatime - overlay none rw,lowerdir=/modules,upperdir=/modules_overlay/rw/upper,workdir=/modules_overlay/rw/work                                            
82 66 8:32 / / rw,relatime - ext4 /dev/sdc rw,discard,errors=remount-ro,data=ordered                                                                                                                                                        
83 82 0:38 / /mnt/wslg rw,relatime shared:2 - tmpfs none rw                                                                                                                                                                                 
84 83 8:32 / /mnt/wslg/distro ro,relatime shared:3 - ext4 /dev/sdc rw,discard,errors=remount-ro,data=ordered                                                                                                                                
100 82 0:46 / /usr/lib/wsl/lib rw,nosuid,nodev,noatime - overlay none rw,lowerdir=/gpu_lib_packaged:/gpu_lib_inbox,upperdir=/gpu_lib/rw/upper,workdir=/gpu_lib/rw/work                                                                      
101 82 0:2 /init /init ro - rootfs rootfs rw,size=8107332k,nr_inodes=2026833                                                                                                                                                                
113 82 0:5 / /dev rw,nosuid,relatime shared:15 - devtmpfs none rw,size=8107332k,nr_inodes=2026833,mode=755                                                                                                                                  
117 82 0:20 / /sys rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,noatime shared:19 - sysfs sysfs rw                                                                                                                                                                
118 82 0:63 / /proc rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,noatime shared:20 - proc proc rw                                                                                                                                                                 
119 113 0:64 / /dev/pts rw,nosuid,noexec,noatime shared:21 - devpts devpts rw,gid=5,mode=620,ptmxmode=000                                                                                                                                   
120 82 0:65 / /run rw,nosuid,nodev shared:22 - tmpfs none rw,mode=755                                                                                                                                                                       
121 120 0:66 / /run/lock rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,noatime shared:23 - tmpfs none rw                                                                                                                                                           
122 120 0:67 / /run/shm rw,nosuid,nodev,noatime shared:24 - tmpfs none rw                                                                                                                                                                   
123 113 0:67 / /dev/shm rw,nosuid,nodev,noatime shared:24 - tmpfs none rw                                                                                                                                                                   
124 120 0:68 / /run/user rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,noatime shared:25 - tmpfs none rw,mode=755                                                                                                                                                  
125 118 0:27 / /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc rw,relatime shared:26 - binfmt_misc binfmt_misc rw                                                                                                                                                  
126 117 0:69 / /sys/fs/cgroup ro,nosuid,nodev,noexec shared:27 - tmpfs tmpfs ro,size=4096k,nr_inodes=1024,mode=755                                                                                                                          
127 126 0:21 / /sys/fs/cgroup/unified rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime shared:28 - cgroup2 cgroup2 rw,nsdelegate                                                                                                                             
130 126 0:60 / /sys/fs/cgroup/cpuset rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime shared:31 - cgroup cgroup rw,cpuset                                                                                                                                    
131 126 0:61 / /sys/fs/cgroup/cpu rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime shared:32 - cgroup cgroup rw,cpu                                                                                                                                          
132 126 0:62 / /sys/fs/cgroup/cpuacct rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime shared:33 - cgroup cgroup rw,cpuacct                                                                                                                                  
133 126 0:70 / /sys/fs/cgroup/blkio rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime shared:34 - cgroup cgroup rw,blkio                                                                                                                                      
134 126 0:71 / /sys/fs/cgroup/memory rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime shared:35 - cgroup cgroup rw,memory                                                                                                                                    
138 126 0:72 / /sys/fs/cgroup/devices rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime shared:39 - cgroup cgroup rw,devices                                                                                                                                  
140 126 0:73 / /sys/fs/cgroup/freezer rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime shared:41 - cgroup cgroup rw,freezer                                                                                                                                  
142 126 0:74 / /sys/fs/cgroup/net_cls rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime shared:43 - cgroup cgroup rw,net_cls                                                                                                                                  
143 126 0:75 / /sys/fs/cgroup/perf_event rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime shared:44 - cgroup cgroup rw,perf_event                                                                                                                            
145 126 0:76 / /sys/fs/cgroup/net_prio rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime shared:46 - cgroup cgroup rw,net_prio                                                                                                                                
146 126 0:77 / /sys/fs/cgroup/hugetlb rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime shared:47 - cgroup cgroup rw,hugetlb                                                                                                                                  
148 126 0:78 / /sys/fs/cgroup/pids rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime shared:49 - cgroup cgroup rw,pids                                                                                                                                        
150 126 0:79 / /sys/fs/cgroup/rdma rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime shared:51 - cgroup cgroup rw,rdma                                                                                                                                        
152 126 0:80 / /sys/fs/cgroup/misc rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime shared:53 - cgroup cgroup rw,misc                                                                                                                                        
156 83 0:40 /etc/versions.txt /mnt/wslg/versions.txt rw,relatime shared:54 - overlay none rw,lowerdir=/systemvhd,upperdir=/system/rw/upper,workdir=/system/rw/work                                                                          
158 83 0:40 /usr/share/doc /mnt/wslg/doc rw,relatime shared:55 - overlay none rw,lowerdir=/systemvhd,upperdir=/system/rw/upper,workdir=/system/rw/work                                                                                      
160 82 0:38 /.X11-unix /tmp/.X11-unix ro,relatime shared:2 - tmpfs none rw                                                                                                                                                                  
161 82 0:83 / /mnt/c rw,noatime - 9p C:\134 rw,dirsync,aname=drvfs;path=C:\;uid=1000;gid=1000;symlinkroot=/mnt/,mmap,access=client,msize=65536,trans=fd,rfd=5,wfd=5                                                                         
162 124 0:38 /run/user /run/user rw,relatime shared:2 - tmpfs none rw                                                                                                                                                                       
163 126 0:84 / /sys/fs/cgroup/systemd rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime shared:56 - cgroup cgroup rw,xattr,name=systemd

❯ touch /tmp/test.tmp; while true; do printf '%s: $ ls -lat /tmp | head\n%s\n\n' "$(date -Iseconds)" "$(ls -lat /tmp | head)"; sleep 2; done                                                                                                
2024-07-09T19:25:36-06:00: $ ls -lat /tmp | head                                                                                                                                                                                            
total 3448                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  
-rw-r--r--  1 leo  leo       0 Jul  9 19:25 test.tmp                                                                                                                                                                                        
drwxrwxrwt 47 root root   4096 Jul  9 19:25 .                                                                                                                                                                                               
drwx------  2 leo  leo    4096 Jul  9 19:25 ssh-XXXXXXnIkT5N                                                                                                                                                                                
drwxr-xr-x 18 root root   4096 Jul  9 19:25 ..                                                                                                                                                                                              
drwxrwxrwx  2 root root     60 Jul  9 19:25 .X11-unix                                                                                                                                                                                       
drwx------  2 leo  leo    4096 Jul  9 19:24 ssh-XXXXXXmAvC2x                                                                                                                                                                                
drwx------  2 leo  leo    4096 Jul  9 19:23 tmux-1000                                                                                                                                                                                       
drwx------  2 leo  leo    4096 Jul  9 19:23 ssh-XXXXXXrBaswW                                                                                                                                                                                
drwx------  2 leo  leo    4096 Jul  9 19:22 ssh-XXXXXXFg5aZ

...

2024-07-09T19:25:42-06:00: $ ls -lat /tmp | head                                                                                                                                                                                            
total 3448                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  
-rw-r--r--  1 leo  leo       0 Jul  9 19:25 test.tmp                                                                                                                                                                                        
drwxrwxrwt 47 root root   4096 Jul  9 19:25 .                                                                                                                                                                                               
drwx------  2 leo  leo    4096 Jul  9 19:25 ssh-XXXXXXnIkT5N                                                                                                                                                                                
drwxr-xr-x 18 root root   4096 Jul  9 19:25 ..                                                                                                                                                                                              
drwxrwxrwx  2 root root     60 Jul  9 19:25 .X11-unix                                                                                                                                                                                       
drwx------  2 leo  leo    4096 Jul  9 19:24 ssh-XXXXXXmAvC2x                                                                                                                                                                                
drwx------  2 leo  leo    4096 Jul  9 19:23 tmux-1000                                                                                                                                                                                       
drwx------  2 leo  leo    4096 Jul  9 19:23 ssh-XXXXXXrBaswW                                                                                                                                                                                
drwx------  2 leo  leo    4096 Jul  9 19:22 ssh-XXXXXXFg5aZw                                                                                                                                                                                

2024-07-09T19:25:44-06:00: $ ls -lat /tmp | head                                                                                                                                                                                            
total 4                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     
drwxrwxrwt  8 root root  160 Jul  9 19:25 .                                                                                                                                                                                                 
drwx------  3 root root   60 Jul  9 19:25 systemd-private-8cae43c7d3124da9be80e2796f378d53-systemd-logind.service-6nGJTr                                                                                                                    
drwx------  3 root root   60 Jul  9 19:25 systemd-private-8cae43c7d3124da9be80e2796f378d53-dbus-broker.service-7Y68yN                                                                                                                       
drwxrwxrwt  2 root root   40 Jul  9 19:25 .font-unix                                                                                                                                                                                        
drwxrwxrwt  2 root root   40 Jul  9 19:25 .ICE-unix                                                                                                                                                                                         
drwxrwxrwt  2 root root   40 Jul  9 19:25 .X11-unix                                                                                                                                                                                         
drwxrwxrwt  2 root root   40 Jul  9 19:25 .XIM-unix                                                                                                                                                                                         
drwxr-xr-x 18 root root 4096 Jul  9 19:25 ..  
...

❯ printf '%s: %s: $ cat /proc/self/mountinfo\n%s\n' After "$(date -Iseconds)" "$(cat /proc/self/mountinfo)"
After: 2024-07-09T19:25:59-06:00: $ cat /proc/self/mountinfo
74 82 0:26 / /mnt/wsl rw,relatime shared:1 - tmpfs none rw
75 82 0:28 / /usr/lib/wsl/drivers ro,nosuid,nodev,noatime - 9p drivers ro,dirsync,aname=drivers;fmask=222;dmask=222,mmap,access=client,msize=65536,trans=fd,rfd=7,wfd=7
80 82 0:36 / /usr/lib/modules rw,relatime - tmpfs none rw
81 80 0:33 / /usr/lib/modules/5.15.153.1-microsoft-standard-WSL2 rw,nosuid,nodev,noatime - overlay none rw,lowerdir=/modules,upperdir=/modules_overlay/rw/upper,workdir=/modules_overlay/rw/work
82 66 8:32 / / rw,relatime - ext4 /dev/sdc rw,discard,errors=remount-ro,data=ordered
83 82 0:38 / /mnt/wslg rw,relatime shared:2 - tmpfs none rw
84 83 8:32 / /mnt/wslg/distro ro,relatime shared:3 - ext4 /dev/sdc rw,discard,errors=remount-ro,data=ordered
100 82 0:46 / /usr/lib/wsl/lib rw,nosuid,nodev,noatime - overlay none rw,lowerdir=/gpu_lib_packaged:/gpu_lib_inbox,upperdir=/gpu_lib/rw/upper,workdir=/gpu_lib/rw/work
101 82 0:2 /init /init ro - rootfs rootfs rw,size=8107332k,nr_inodes=2026833
113 82 0:5 / /dev rw,nosuid,relatime shared:15 - devtmpfs none rw,size=8107332k,nr_inodes=2026833,mode=755
117 82 0:20 / /sys rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,noatime shared:19 - sysfs sysfs rw
118 82 0:63 / /proc rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,noatime shared:20 - proc proc rw
119 113 0:64 / /dev/pts rw,nosuid,noexec,noatime shared:21 - devpts devpts rw,gid=5,mode=620,ptmxmode=000
120 82 0:65 / /run rw,nosuid,nodev shared:22 - tmpfs none rw,mode=755
121 120 0:66 / /run/lock rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,noatime shared:23 - tmpfs none rw
122 120 0:67 / /run/shm rw,nosuid,nodev,noatime shared:24 - tmpfs none rw
123 113 0:67 / /dev/shm rw,nosuid,nodev,noatime shared:24 - tmpfs none rw
124 120 0:68 / /run/user rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,noatime shared:25 - tmpfs none rw,mode=755
125 118 0:27 / /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc rw,relatime shared:26 - binfmt_misc binfmt_misc rw
126 117 0:69 / /sys/fs/cgroup ro,nosuid,nodev,noexec shared:27 - tmpfs tmpfs ro,size=4096k,nr_inodes=1024,mode=755
127 126 0:21 / /sys/fs/cgroup/unified rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime shared:28 - cgroup2 cgroup2 rw,nsdelegate
130 126 0:60 / /sys/fs/cgroup/cpuset rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime shared:31 - cgroup cgroup rw,cpuset
131 126 0:61 / /sys/fs/cgroup/cpu rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime shared:32 - cgroup cgroup rw,cpu
132 126 0:62 / /sys/fs/cgroup/cpuacct rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime shared:33 - cgroup cgroup rw,cpuacct
133 126 0:70 / /sys/fs/cgroup/blkio rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime shared:34 - cgroup cgroup rw,blkio
134 126 0:71 / /sys/fs/cgroup/memory rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime shared:35 - cgroup cgroup rw,memory
138 126 0:72 / /sys/fs/cgroup/devices rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime shared:39 - cgroup cgroup rw,devices
140 126 0:73 / /sys/fs/cgroup/freezer rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime shared:41 - cgroup cgroup rw,freezer
142 126 0:74 / /sys/fs/cgroup/net_cls rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime shared:43 - cgroup cgroup rw,net_cls
143 126 0:75 / /sys/fs/cgroup/perf_event rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime shared:44 - cgroup cgroup rw,perf_event
145 126 0:76 / /sys/fs/cgroup/net_prio rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime shared:46 - cgroup cgroup rw,net_prio
146 126 0:77 / /sys/fs/cgroup/hugetlb rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime shared:47 - cgroup cgroup rw,hugetlb
148 126 0:78 / /sys/fs/cgroup/pids rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime shared:49 - cgroup cgroup rw,pids
150 126 0:79 / /sys/fs/cgroup/rdma rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime shared:51 - cgroup cgroup rw,rdma
152 126 0:80 / /sys/fs/cgroup/misc rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime shared:53 - cgroup cgroup rw,misc
156 83 0:40 /etc/versions.txt /mnt/wslg/versions.txt rw,relatime shared:54 - overlay none rw,lowerdir=/systemvhd,upperdir=/system/rw/upper,workdir=/system/rw/work
158 83 0:40 /usr/share/doc /mnt/wslg/doc rw,relatime shared:55 - overlay none rw,lowerdir=/systemvhd,upperdir=/system/rw/upper,workdir=/system/rw/work
160 82 0:38 /.X11-unix /tmp/.X11-unix ro,relatime shared:2 - tmpfs none rw
161 82 0:83 / /mnt/c rw,noatime - 9p C:\134 rw,dirsync,aname=drvfs;path=C:\;uid=1000;gid=1000;symlinkroot=/mnt/,mmap,access=client,msize=65536,trans=fd,rfd=5,wfd=5
162 124 0:38 /run/user /run/user rw,relatime shared:2 - tmpfs none rw
163 126 0:84 / /sys/fs/cgroup/systemd rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime shared:56 - cgroup cgroup rw,xattr,name=systemd
164 113 0:85 / /dev/hugepages rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime shared:57 - hugetlbfs hugetlbfs rw,pagesize=2M
165 117 0:6 / /sys/kernel/debug rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime shared:58 - debugfs debugfs rw
166 113 0:37 / /dev/mqueue rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime shared:59 - mqueue mqueue rw
167 117 0:11 / /sys/kernel/tracing rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime shared:60 - tracefs tracefs rw
168 82 0:86 / /tmp rw,nosuid,nodev - tmpfs tmpfs rw,nr_inodes=1048576
231 120 0:87 / /run/credentials/systemd-journald.service ro,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,nosymfollow shared:61 - ramfs none rw,mode=700
233 120 0:88 / /run/credentials/systemd-tmpfiles-setup-dev-early.service ro,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,nosymfollow shared:62 - ramfs none rw,mode=700
235 120 0:89 / /run/credentials/systemd-udev-load-credentials.service ro,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,nosymfollow shared:63 - ramfs none rw,mode=700
169 117 0:90 / /sys/fs/fuse/connections rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime shared:64 - fusectl fusectl rw
239 120 0:91 / /run/credentials/systemd-sysctl.service ro,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,nosymfollow shared:65 - ramfs none rw,mode=700
241 120 0:92 / /run/credentials/systemd-tmpfiles-setup-dev.service ro,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,nosymfollow shared:66 - ramfs none rw,mode=700
309 120 0:93 / /run/credentials/systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service ro,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,nosymfollow shared:105 - ramfs none rw,mode=700
312 120 0:94 / /run/credentials/systemd-vconsole-setup.service ro,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,nosymfollow shared:119 - ramfs none rw,mode=700
465 120 0:97 / /run/credentials/console-getty.service ro,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,nosymfollow shared:211 - ramfs none rw,mode=700

Does systemctl mask systemd-tmpfiles-clean.service survives shutdown? because I need to run wsl --shutdown Arch in order to reproduce the problem.

[OneBlue]

Here's probably what's causing the issue:

168 82 0:86 / /tmp rw,nosuid,nodev - tmpfs tmpfs rw,nr_inodes=1048576

There something that's mounting a tmpfs over /tmp, which masks the files in there. Can you share the output of:

systemctl -t mount

?

[LeonardoMor]

Here's probably what's causing the issue:

168 82 0:86 / /tmp rw,nosuid,nodev - tmpfs tmpfs rw,nr_inodes=1048576

There something that's mounting a tmpfs over /tmp, which masks the files in there. Can you share the output of:

systemctl -t mount

?

❯ systemctl -t mount
  UNIT                                                                       LOAD   ACTIVE SUB     DESCRIPTION
  -.mount                                                                    loaded active mounted Root Mount
  dev-hugepages.mount                                                        loaded active mounted Huge Pages File System
  dev-mqueue.mount                                                           loaded active mounted POSIX Message Queue File System
  init.mount                                                                 loaded active mounted /init
  mnt-c.mount                                                                loaded active mounted /mnt/c
  mnt-wsl.mount                                                              loaded active mounted /mnt/wsl
  mnt-wslg-distro.mount                                                      loaded active mounted /mnt/wslg/distro
  mnt-wslg-doc.mount                                                         loaded active mounted /mnt/wslg/doc
  mnt-wslg-versions.txt.mount                                                loaded active mounted /mnt/wslg/versions.txt
  mnt-wslg.mount                                                             loaded active mounted /mnt/wslg
  proc-sys-fs-binfmt_misc.mount                                              loaded active mounted Arbitrary Executable File Formats File System
  run-credentials-console\x2dgetty.service.mount                             loaded active mounted /run/credentials/console-getty.service
  run-credentials-systemd\x2djournald.service.mount                          loaded active mounted /run/credentials/systemd-journald.service
  run-credentials-systemd\x2dsysctl.service.mount                            loaded active mounted run-credentials-systemd\x2dsysctl.service.mount
  run-credentials-systemd\x2dsysusers.service.mount                          loaded active mounted run-credentials-systemd\x2dsysusers.service.mount
  run-credentials-systemd\x2dtmpfiles\x2dsetup.service.mount                 loaded active mounted run-credentials-systemd\x2dtmpfiles\x2dsetup.service.mount
  run-credentials-systemd\x2dtmpfiles\x2dsetup\x2ddev.service.mount          loaded active mounted run-credentials-systemd\x2dtmpfiles\x2dsetup\x2ddev.service.mount
  run-credentials-systemd\x2dtmpfiles\x2dsetup\x2ddev\x2dearly.service.mount loaded active mounted run-credentials-systemd\x2dtmpfiles\x2dsetup\x2ddev\x2dearly.service.mount
  run-credentials-systemd\x2dudev\x2dload\x2dcredentials.service.mount       loaded active mounted run-credentials-systemd\x2dudev\x2dload\x2dcredentials.service.mount
  run-credentials-systemd\x2dvconsole\x2dsetup.service.mount                 loaded active mounted run-credentials-systemd\x2dvconsole\x2dsetup.service.mount
  run-lock.mount                                                             loaded active mounted /run/lock
  run-shm.mount                                                              loaded active mounted /run/shm
  run-user.mount                                                             loaded active mounted /run/user
  sys-fs-fuse-connections.mount                                              loaded active mounted FUSE Control File System
  sys-kernel-debug.mount                                                     loaded active mounted Kernel Debug File System
  sys-kernel-tracing.mount                                                   loaded active mounted Kernel Trace File System
  tmp-.X11\x2dunix.mount                                                     loaded active mounted /tmp/.X11-unix
  tmp.mount                                                                  loaded active mounted Temporary Directory /tmp
  usr-lib-modules-5.15.153.1\x2dmicrosoft\x2dstandard\x2dWSL2.mount          loaded active mounted /usr/lib/modules/5.15.153.1-microsoft-standard-WSL2
  usr-lib-modules.mount                                                      loaded active mounted /usr/lib/modules
  usr-lib-wsl-drivers.mount                                                  loaded active mounted /usr/lib/wsl/drivers
  usr-lib-wsl-lib.mount                                                      loaded active mounted /usr/lib/wsl/lib

Legend: LOAD   → Reflects whether the unit definition was properly loaded.
        ACTIVE → The high-level unit activation state, i.e. generalization of SUB.
        SUB    → The low-level unit activation state, values depend on unit type.

32 loaded units listed. Pass --all to see loaded but inactive units, too.
To show all installed unit files use 'systemctl list-unit-files'.

[OneBlue]

This is probably the unit that's causing this behavior:

  tmp.mount                                                                  loaded active mounted Temporary Directory /tmp

Does running systemctl mask tmp.mount, followed by wsl --shutdown resolve the issue ?

[LeonardoMor]

This is probably the unit that's causing this behavior:

  tmp.mount                                                                  loaded active mounted Temporary Directory /tmp

Does running systemctl mask tmp.mount, followed by wsl --shutdown resolve the issue ?

Tested this. This does not fix the issue.

[suiryc]

Hello,

Is your systemd version 256(.2-1) ? It seems systemd behaviour changed since version 255, somehow as if we are logged in the WSL instance before systemd is actually fully ready/started.

Maybe related, a systemd ticket that was closed as "WSL issue": https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/33483

Unexpectedly, when I enable the experimental autoMemoryReclaim setting (windows-side WSL configuration in .wslconfig), the issue does not appear to happen:

[experimental]
autoMemoryReclaim = gradual

Alternatively as a temporary workaround, you may try to revert to systemd 255 to confirm this is due to the 256 version.

[LeonardoMor]

Indeed:

systemd 256 (256.2-1-arch)
+PAM +AUDIT -SELINUX -APPARMOR -IMA +SMACK +SECCOMP +GCRYPT +GNUTLS +OPENSSL +ACL +BLKID +CURL +ELFUTILS +FIDO2 +IDN2 -IDN +IPTC +KMOD +LIBCRYPTSETUP +LIBCRYPTSETUP_PLUGINS +LIBFDISK +PCRE2 +PWQUALITY +P11KIT +QRENCODE +TPM2 +BZIP2 +LZ4 +XZ +ZLIB +ZSTD +BPF_FRAMEWORK +XKBCOMMON +UTMP -SYSVINIT +LIBARCHIVE

Where is this .wslconfig file?

[suiryc]

In the user home directory (%UserProfile%), e.g. C:\Users\your-user-name. By default the file is not there (all parameters have default values), so the first time you want to set a specific setting value, you have to create the file in this directory.

There are some details here.

Edit: it is important to note that, as explained in the doc, you usually have to shutdown the WSL (wsl --shutdown) and then restart the WSL instance for the changes to take effect

[LeonardoMor]

This resolves the issue.

[suiryc]

Glad to hear this also works for you. I don't know what is exactly the underlying issue between WSL 2 and systemd 256. Fixing it this way seems more like an unexpected side effect of enabling this setting, but at least that's a workaround for now.