Cannot lauch any gui app after update

[PietroValerio]

Windows Version

Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.22631.4169]

WSL Version

2.2.4.0

Are you using WSL 1 or WSL 2?

• [X] WSL 2
• [ ] WSL 1

Kernel Version

5.15.153.1-2

Distro Version

Ubuntu 24.04

Other Software

xcb version 2.4-8build2 ros2 version jazzy xeyes version 1.3.0 xcalc version 1.1.2

Repro Steps

For xcb: -sudo apt install xcb

• runxcb on terminal

For ros2: For installation follow this:

locale  # check for UTF-8

sudo apt update && sudo apt install locales
sudo locale-gen en_US en_US.UTF-8
sudo update-locale LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
export LANG=en_US.UTF-8

locale  # verify settings

sudo apt install software-properties-common
sudo add-apt-repository universe

sudo apt update && sudo apt install curl -y
sudo curl -sSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ros/rosdistro/master/ros.key -o /usr/share/keyrings/ros-archive-keyring.gpg

echo "deb [arch=$(dpkg --print-architecture) signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/ros-archive-keyring.gpg] http://packages.ros.org/ros2/ubuntu $(. /etc/os-release && echo $UBUNTU_CODENAME) main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ros2.list > /dev/null

sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade sudo apt install ros-jazzy-desktop

• run ros2 run turtlesim turtlesim_node

For xcalc: -sudo apt install x11-apps

• run xcalc on terminal

For xeyes: -sudo apt install x11-apps

• run xeyes on terminal

Expected Behavior

The window should open and the program should be displayed as a linux window on windows

Actual Behavior

for xcb, xcalc, xeyes the output is: Error: Can't open display: :0

for ros2 the output is:

qt.qpa.xcb: could not connect to display :0
qt.qpa.plugin: Could not load the Qt platform plugin "xcb" in "" even though it was found.
This application failed to start because no Qt platform plugin could be initialized. Reinstalling the application may fix this problem.

Available platform plugins are: eglfs, linuxfb, minimal, minimalegl, offscreen, vnc, wayland-egl, wayland, wayland-xcomposite-egl, wayland-xcomposite-glx, xcb.

[ros2run]: Aborted

• the logs collected with collect logs tool ros2log.zip xcalc_log.zip xcb_log.zip

• strace logs ros_strace.zip strace_xcalc.txt strace_xcb.txt

current workaround found(that doesn't survive reboot): sudo rm -rf /tmp/.X11-unix && ln -s /mnt/wslg/.X11-unix /tmp/

Diagnostic Logs

No response

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Diagnostic information

Multiple log files found, using: https://github.com/user-attachments/files/17041292/ros2log.zip
Detected appx version: 2.2.4.0

[OneBlue]

/logs

[PietroValerio]

the logs are already provided

[OneBlue]

We need logs provided by the collect-wsl-logs script.

/logs

[OneBlue]

Ok I see that those are already included, the zip files are just changed.

Is systemd enabled in your distribution ? Does disabling it solve the issue ?

[PietroValerio]

Ok I see that those are already included, the zip files are just changed.

Is systemd enabled in your distribution ? Does disabling it solve the issue ?

systemd is enabled, can you explain better on how i disable it?

[OneBlue]

You can disable systemd via /etc/wsl.conf

[boot]
systemd=false

[PietroValerio]

Disabling systemd solves the issue apparently