Windows 10 21H2 - WSL Ubuntu install never completing problem

Gazb · 24 Jan 2023 at 17:12

So I recently got a new work laptop, and I want to setup WSL on it so I can use Ubuntu for my Linux administration work.

Here's a brief over view of what I've done;

Ran a prompt as Administrator,
Ran wsl --install (this completed fine)
Rebooted the laptop
Ran wsl --update to ensure it was the latest version
Then ran wsl --install Ubuntu
Installation progress completes and then spawns an Ubuntu window.
The Ubuntu window says: 'Installing, this may take a few minutes...'

And that's as far as I've ever gotten Ubuntu to go on this laptop. Nothing I've done, administrator or otherwise makes a difference, I've re-installed Ubuntu more times than I can remember at this point, it just won't go any further.
I've tried other suggestions I've seen such as Ctrl-C on that window to checking the Control Flow Guard security settings for vmcompute.exe but nothings worked so thought I'd throw the question out here to see if anyone's ever experienced this?

Murphy · 24 Jan 2023 at 17:21

You tried gathering the logs to see if they point to what the issue is.

Script here to do the collection.

AthlonXP1800 · 25 Jan 2023 at 04:44

Try this.

Open "Window Security"

Open "App & Browser control"

Click "Exploit protection settings" at the bottom

Switch to "Program settings" tab

Locate "C:\WINDOWS\System32\vmcompute.exe" in the list and expand it

Click "Edit"

Scroll down to "Code flow guard (CFG)" and uncheck "Override system settings"

Start vmcompute from powershell
net start vmcompute

Then run wsl --install Ubuntu. If it not work then try run wsl --install -d Ubuntu

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