Recently wsld started failing on one of my machines with an obscure permission denied message. After fumbling with it for a while, I figured out that this is an issue of not being able to remove /tmp/.X11-unix/X0, and sudo-removing it made things good again.
Two things are relevant here:
I think that this has started recently because I did a new ubuntu setup -- and it now starts wslg as part of the setup, which means that you're left with a root-owned directory.
It would therefore be nice to revise the code a bit and say what exactly caused the error rather than a vague "permission denied" -- it would at least save me a couple of hours trying to run in random directions.
Recently wsld started failing on one of my machines with an obscure
permission deniedmessage. After fumbling with it for a while, I figured out that this is an issue of not being able to remove/tmp/.X11-unix/X0, and sudo-removing it made things good again.Two things are relevant here:
wslgas part of the setup, which means that you're left with a root-owned directory.I think that the offending code is
https://github.com/nbdd0121/wsld/blob/c2247984e58de386a52e7f937f98a0d0712e627a/client/src/x11socket.rs#L66-L67
which looks like it's ignoring the prospect of not being able to write that, and fails in a generic way rather that just telling you what went wrong.
(This is probably a duplicate of a few other issues, and adding an error would mean not spending time telling people about removing the files :)