Windows 10: My WSL 2 is not starting, nor responding to any commands.

Hello, I have been using WSL for a while, and today I tried to update WSL.I ran wsl --update in cmd and it completed the update. However, now my WSL will not start.When I try to start WSL, the WSL Console opens, but nothing happens. The Window stays black.I tried to uninstall and Reinstall WSL multiple times, but no luck. The result is the same.I have also tried running the following commands:'wsl -l' to list installed distriburions. This Command hangs infinitely and does nothing, until interrupted by Ctrl-C.'wsl --shutdown' has the same effect. 'wslconfig /l' also hangs. The same for 'wslconf

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My WSL 2 is not starting, nor responding to any commands.

Hello, I have been using WSL for a while, and today I tried to update WSL.

I ran wsl --update in cmd and it completed the update. However, now my WSL will not start.

When I try to start WSL, the WSL Console opens, but nothing happens. The Window stays black.

I tried to uninstall and Reinstall WSL multiple times, but no luck. The result is the same.

I have also tried running the following commands:

'wsl -l' to list installed distriburions. This Command hangs infinitely and does nothing, until interrupted by Ctrl-C.

'wsl --shutdown' has the same effect.

'wslconfig /l' also hangs. The same for 'wslconfig /t Debian'

'wsl --install Debian' tries to install the Distro, but gives the following error message:
"An error occurred while deleting the package's previously existing application data.

Error code: Wsl/InstallDistro/0x80073d05"

My WSL version (shown by 'wsl -v'):

WSL version: 2.0.14.0

Kernel version: 5.15.133.1-1

WSLg version: 1.0.59

MSRDC version: 1.2.4677

Direct3D version: 1.611.1-81528511

DXCore version: 10.0.25131.1002-220531-1700.rs-onecore-base2-hyp

Windows version: 10.0.19045.3930

I would appreciate any help.

 

WSL 2

I want to make use of WSL 2 feature with the new update of Windows version 2004 , in order to use WSL 2 i need to enable Virtualization in my pc bios settings. So when i enable virtualization my windows starts lagging and all the animations of scrolling
etc etc lags...Please suggest me something to fix that so that i could use the new virtualization feature.

 

WSL

Version 2 of WSL uses a new lightweight utility virtual machine capability. To enable the lightweight virtual machine and WSL, you need to enable two Windows features: Virtual Machine Platform and Windows Subsystem for Linux.

To enable these features via the user interface (UI), press the Windows key and enter Windows Features, then click on Turn Windows features on or off.
When the Windows Features dialog appears, check the boxes for Virtual Machine Platform and Windows Subsystem for Linux.




If you want to make version 2 the default for any Linux distros you install then run the following command:


Code:

Now you can install Linux distro from Microsoft Store it will be running version 2 of WSL.

A distro can be converted between versions of WSL after installation. To achieve this, you use the wsl --set-version command.

This command takes two arguments:

• The name of the distro to update
• The version to convert it to

An example of converting the Ubuntu distro to version 2 is shown here:

Code:

Execute wsl --list --verbose versions of WSL installed distro.