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I have been using Ubuntu in Windows Subsystem for Linux on Windows 10 for a week. Today after a required system restart it stopped working. It closes soon after opened. I have turned off and back on the WSL feature but it didn't help.

Please let me know if this has a fix.

K7AAY
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Khushboo Soni
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  • Sounds like a Windows update bug. They normally send out updates on Tuesday/Wednesday. – cup Mar 12 '20 at 15:19
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    This is a Windows issue; please consult our sister Q&A site https://superuser.com for Windows support. They will want to know which version of WSL you have; here's how to find out. https://askubuntu.com/questions/1177729/wsl-am-i-running-version-1-or-version-2 – K7AAY Mar 12 '20 at 16:20
  • What do you get if you run ubuntu in CMD? (The command can vary depending on the release you've installed. For example, ubuntu1604 or ubuntu1804 or simply ubuntu) – Kulfy Mar 18 '20 at 23:34

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This happened on my machine, too. After removing and installing Ubuntu completely again, I've noticed that a recent Docker installation caused that issue.

Checking with wsl --list from cmd.exe it showed me

Windows Subsystem for Linux Distributions:
docker-desktop-data (Default)
docker-desktop
Ubuntu

So I set the default back to Ubuntu with

wsl --set-default Ubuntu
Markus Zeller
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I reinstalled Ubuntu and that seems to have fixed the problem. The original problem did start when I was required to restart for a Windows update on my system. After the update I started having the above issue in Ubuntu. Now after reinstallation, it seems to be working fine.

Khushboo Soni
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I had the same problem, in my case, I didn't have the Ubuntu distribution.

So, I installed it, using this command:

wsl --install -d Ubuntu

Then I used the following command to set the Ubuntu distribution as default:

wsl --set-default Ubuntu

Other useful commands:

# To list all installed distributions
wsl --list --verbose
wsl -l -v

To see the available distributions to install


wls --list --online

More details about this issue: https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/6218#issuecomment-1329818462

anayarojo
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