Cannot change the default user with arch.exe

[ray24777]

Describe the issue Error with strange text (shown below) was shown when trying to change the default user with "Arch.exe config --default-user".

C:\Arch>Arch.exe config --default-user ray
ERR: wsl: �hKm0R localhost �NtM�n
�FO*g\��P0R WSL0NAT !j_
N/ec localhost �Nt0
1000
&errors.errorString{s:"w\x00s\x00l\x00:\x00 \x00\xc0hKm0R \x00l\x00o\x00c\x00a\x00l\x00h\x00o\x00s\x00t\x00 \x00\xe3N\x06tM\x91n\u007f\f\xffFO*g\\\x95\xcfP0R \x00W\x00S\x00L\x00\x020N\x00A\x00T\x00 \x00!j\x0f_\vN\x84v \x00W\x00S\x00L\x00 \x00\rN/e\x01c \x00l\x00o\x00c\x00a\x00l\x00h\x00o\x00s\x00t\x00 \x00\xe3N\x06t\x020\r\x00\n\x001000"}

To Reproduce Install the package, set a new user and run above command in windows.

Expected behavior A change of default user of wsl.

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Enviroment:

• Windows build number: [10.0.22631.3007]
• Security Software: Windows Defender
• WSL version 1/2: WSL2
• ArchWSL version: 22.10.16.0
• ArchWSL Installer type: zip
• Launcher version: wsldl2, version 22020900 (amd64)

[ray24777]

Sloved.

Just disable the system proxy of Windows, and then the command could be executed. Still very strange. Is there a bug?

[mrcaidev]

Setting wsl2.networkingMode to mirrored also solves the problem.

Here is my current .wslconfig below.

[wsl2]
networkingMode=mirrored
dnsTunneling = true
autoProxy = true

[experimental]
autoMemoryReclaim = gradual

Adding the line networkingMode=mirrored solves the problem.

[whyXVI]

LOL I edited .wslconfig before trying wsl -d Arch -u {username} and succeeded. I thought the bug can be solved by an alternative way of adding default user before I read this issue