Windows 10: [WSL] All my files in wsl are missing after updating and restart

Hi,It seems that wsl has a big update recently for win 10. I did update before, and after I restarted my computer, all my files in wsl were missing and the only thing left in wsl was an empty account called wslg. my win 10 version is 21H2The following is the output of wsl -vWSL 1.1.3.0 5.15.90.1 WSLg 1.0.49 MSRDC 1.2.3770 Direct3D 1.608.2-61064218 DXCore 10.0.25131.1002-220531-1700.rs-onecore-base2-hyp Windows 10.0.19044.2604

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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.

 

WSL problem -- all wsl commands don't work

Hello everyone,

I got an issue with the windows subsystem for Linux (WSL).

Context :

I'm using a Windows 10 lap-top shared by my company

How I got to the problem :

- I first reinstall windows 10

- I installed WSL through this link .

- Everything was working though with the Ubuntu 20.04 installed though I wanted Ubuntu 22.04

- When I was looking at wich distro I could install by using the command :

wsl --list --online

- So I was like, hey maybe, I could use the command wsl --update to update my wsl, maybe it was not fully updated. I was wrong, it was my Windows not updated.

But anyway, I tried the command, it hungs, nothing was happening...
- I Ctrl+C to stop the execution of the cmd ; from here I could not do any command in admin power-shell, it would just hung forever.

- But I've seen that I could still use the command in User mode not admin, though I needed to launch the distro in admin mode otherwise I had a credential issue.

- The thing is the WSL used in non-root mode was not updated

I didn't have the new feature with the GUI which I need for my project.

- So in non-root powershell, I did the update command:

wsl --update

- And now, I can have the GUI but at that point, in my distro. Every apt update, apt install commands don't work anymore.

- So I have to uninstall wsl in user mode to use the apt install, and reinstall it everytime to have the GUI

That's not really what I want. I obviously already tried to uninstall everything distro and WSL. By not forgetting to remove every windows features about virtual machine, wsl and the hypervisor.

I used this method to uninstall WSL : here is the link

And now after reinstalling wsl in root mode. Even after uninstalling it hung forever...

Do you have any idea to have a WSL working without reinstalling again windows ?

 

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