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wsl --install catastrophic failure on version 2.4.11 #12672

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d4lk0s opened this issue Mar 9, 2025 · 3 comments
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wsl --install catastrophic failure on version 2.4.11 #12672

d4lk0s opened this issue Mar 9, 2025 · 3 comments
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d4lk0s commented Mar 9, 2025

Windows Version

Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.26100.3194]

WSL Version

2.4.11.0

Are you using WSL 1 or WSL 2?

  • WSL 2
  • WSL 1

Kernel Version

5.15.167.4-1

Distro Version

No response

Other Software

No response

Repro Steps

  1. Enable WSL and Virtual Machine Platform via optionalfeatures.exe
  2. Reboot
  4. Open command prompt
  5. Enter the command: wsl --install

Expected Behavior

I expected the default distro (Ubuntu) to install

Actual Behavior

I receive the following error:

Downloading: Ubuntu
Installing: Ubuntu
Catastrophic failure
Error code: Wsl/InstallDistro/Service/RegisterDistro/E_UNEXPECTED

Diagnostic Logs

WslLogs-2025-03-09_15-59-42.zip
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Diagnostic information 
.wslconfig found
Detected appx version: 2.4.11.0
Detected user visible error: Wsl/InstallDistro/Service/RegisterDistro/E_UNEXPECTED
Found evidence of kernel panic: [    0.746100] Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception

@benhillis benhillis added the install Failure to install label Mar 10, 2025
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OneBlue commented Mar 10, 2025

Thank you for reporting this @d4lk0s. The logs show a kernel panic while trying to format the disk:

1538	False	Microsoft.Windows.Lxss.Manager	GuestLog	0	03-09-2025 13:00:09.208	"	"	"text: 	""[    0.738366] general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0x1a8ca2800000060: 0000 [#1] SMP NOPTI ""
vmId: 	{50319176-6d20-4472-9996-938007e9f818}"				4880	4960	5		00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000		
1539	False	Microsoft.Windows.Lxss.Manager	GuestLog	0	03-09-2025 13:00:09.209	"	"	"text: 	""[    0.739566] CPU: 0 PID: 126 Comm: bsdtar Not tainted 5.15.167.4-microsoft-standard-WSL2 #1 ""
vmId: 	{50319176-6d20-4472-9996-938007e9f818}"				4880	4960	5		00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000		
1540	False	Microsoft.Windows.Lxss.Manager	GuestLog	0	03-09-2025 13:00:09.209	"	"	"text: 	""[    0.739783] RIP: 0010:ext4_mark_iloc_dirty+0x573/0xb00 ""
vmId: 	{50319176-6d20-4472-9996-938007e9f818}"				4880	4960	5		00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000		
1541	False	Microsoft.Windows.Lxss.Manager	GuestLog	0	03-09-2025 13:00:09.209	"	"	"text: 	""[    0.739892] Code: 00 00 49 8b 7e 28 44 89 e1 ba 54 14 00 00 48 c7 c6 00 93 44 b1 e8 8d 65 03 00 48 85 ed 74 08 48 89 ef e8 80 4a f7 ff 48 8b 03 <f0> ff 48 60 48 83 c4 48 44 89 e0 5b 5d 41 5c 41 5d 41 5e 41 5f c3 ""
vmId: 	{50319176-6d20-4472-9996-938007e9f818}"				4880	4960	5		00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000		
1542	False	Microsoft.Windows.Lxss.Manager	GuestLog	0	03-09-2025 13:00:09.209	"	"	"text: 	""[    0.740237] RSP: 0018:ffffac218213bbf0 EFLAGS: 00010202 ""
vmId: 	{50319176-6d20-4472-9996-938007e9f818}"				4880	4960	5		00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000		
1543	False	Microsoft.Windows.Lxss.Manager	GuestLog	0	03-09-2025 13:00:09.209	"	"	"text: 	""[    0.740350] RAX: 01a8ca2800000000 RBX: ffffac218213bcbc RCX: 0000000000000000 ""
vmId: 	{50319176-6d20-4472-9996-938007e9f818}"				4880	4960	5		00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000		
1544	False	Microsoft.Windows.Lxss.Manager	GuestLog	0	03-09-2025 13:00:09.209	"	"	"text: 	""[    0.740493] RDX: ffff9061035b7800 RSI: ffff90610b55c478 RDI: ffff90610b55c478 ""
vmId: 	{50319176-6d20-4472-9996-938007e9f818}"				4880	4960	5		00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000		
1545	False	Microsoft.Windows.Lxss.Manager	GuestLog	0	03-09-2025 13:00:09.210	"	"	"text: 	""[    0.740631] RBP: ffff90610b55c478 R08: ffff90610b55c478 R09: 0000000000000004 ""
vmId: 	{50319176-6d20-4472-9996-938007e9f818}"				4880	4960	5		00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000		
1546	False	Microsoft.Windows.Lxss.Manager	GuestLog	0	03-09-2025 13:00:09.210	"	"	"text: 	""[    0.740771] R10: 0000000000000064 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 0000000000000000 ""
vmId: 	{50319176-6d20-4472-9996-938007e9f818}"				4880	4960	5		00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000		
1547	False	Microsoft.Windows.Lxss.Manager	GuestLog	0	03-09-2025 13:00:09.210	"	"	"text: 	""[    0.740911] R13: 000000000000003c R14: ffff906101a8ca28 R15: ffff906101aca000 ""
vmId: 	{50319176-6d20-4472-9996-938007e9f818}"				4880	4960	5		00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000		
1548	False	Microsoft.Windows.Lxss.Manager	GuestLog	0	03-09-2025 13:00:09.210	"	"	"text: 	""[    0.741048] FS:  00007f5ca837ddc0(0000) GS:ffff9061ffc00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 ""
vmId: 	{50319176-6d20-4472-9996-938007e9f818}"				4880	4960	5		00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000		
1549	False	Microsoft.Windows.Lxss.Manager	GuestLog	0	03-09-2025 13:00:09.210	"	"	"text: 	""[    0.741185] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 ""
vmId: 	{50319176-6d20-4472-9996-938007e9f818}"				4880	4960	5		00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000		
1550	False	Microsoft.Windows.Lxss.Manager	GuestLog	0	03-09-2025 13:00:09.210	"	"	"text: 	""[    0.741301] CR2: 0000561f4658288c CR3: 0000000101c98005 CR4: 0000000000370eb0 ""
vmId: 	{50319176-6d20-4472-9996-938007e9f818}"				4880	4960	5		00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000		
1551	False	Microsoft.Windows.Lxss.Manager	GuestLog	0	03-09-2025 13:00:09.210	"	"	"text: 	""[    0.741442] Call Trace: ""
vmId: 	{50319176-6d20-4472-9996-938007e9f818}"				4880	4960	5		00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000		
1552	False	Microsoft.Windows.Lxss.Manager	GuestLog	0	03-09-2025 13:00:09.210	"	"	"text: 	""[    0.741499]  <TASK> ""
vmId: 	{50319176-6d20-4472-9996-938007e9f818}"				4880	4960	5		00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000		
1553	False	Microsoft.Windows.Lxss.Manager	GuestLog	0	03-09-2025 13:00:09.210	"	"	"text: 	""[    0.741549]  ? __die_body.cold+0x1a/0x1f ""
vmId: 	{50319176-6d20-4472-9996-938007e9f818}"				4880	4960	5		00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000		
1554	False	Microsoft.Windows.Lxss.Manager	GuestLog	0	03-09-2025 13:00:09.211	"	"	"text: 	""[    0.741621]  ? die_addr+0x39/0x60 ""
vmId: 	{50319176-6d20-4472-9996-938007e9f818}"				4880	4960	5		00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000		
1555	False	Microsoft.Windows.Lxss.Manager	GuestLog	0	03-09-2025 13:00:09.211	"	"	"text: 	""[    0.741693]  ? exc_general_protection+0x1b6/0x340 ""
vmId: 	{50319176-6d20-4472-9996-938007e9f818}"				4880	4960	5		00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000		
1556	False	Microsoft.Windows.Lxss.Manager	GuestLog	0	03-09-2025 13:00:09.211	"	"	"text: 	""[    0.741786]  ? asm_exc_general_protection+0x22/0x30 ""
vmId: 	{50319176-6d20-4472-9996-938007e9f818}"				4880	4960	5		00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000		
1557	False	Microsoft.Windows.Lxss.Manager	GuestLog	0	03-09-2025 13:00:09.211	"	"	"text: 	""[    0.741879]  ? ext4_mark_iloc_dirty+0x573/0xb00 ""
vmId: 	{50319176-6d20-4472-9996-938007e9f818}"				4880	4960	5		00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000		
1558	False	Microsoft.Windows.Lxss.Manager	GuestLog	0	03-09-2025 13:00:09.211	"	"	"text: 	""[    0.741973]  __ext4_mark_inode_dirty+0x7e/0x200 ""
vmId: 	{50319176-6d20-4472-9996-938007e9f818}"				4880	4960	5		00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000		
1559	False	Microsoft.Windows.Lxss.Manager	GuestLog	0	03-09-2025 13:00:09.211	"	"	"text: 	""[    0.742066]  ? __ext4_journal_start_sb+0xf8/0x110 ""
vmId: 	{50319176-6d20-4472-9996-938007e9f818}"				4880	4960	5		00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000		
1560	False	Microsoft.Windows.Lxss.Manager	GuestLog	0	03-09-2025 13:00:09.211	"	"	"text: 	""[    0.742158]  ext4_dirty_inode+0x57/0x80 ""
vmId: 	{50319176-6d20-4472-9996-938007e9f818}"				4880	4960	5		00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000		
1561	False	Microsoft.Windows.Lxss.Manager	GuestLog	0	03-09-2025 13:00:09.211	"	"	"text: 	""[    0.742229]  __mark_inode_dirty+0x53/0x320 ""
vmId: 	{50319176-6d20-4472-9996-938007e9f818}"				4880	4960	5		00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000		
1562	False	Microsoft.Windows.Lxss.Manager	GuestLog	0	03-09-2025 13:00:09.211	"	"	"text: 	""[    0.742301]  generic_write_end+0xed/0x160 ""
vmId: 	{50319176-6d20-4472-9996-938007e9f818}"				4880	4960	5		00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000		
1563	False	Microsoft.Windows.Lxss.Manager	GuestLog	0	03-09-2025 13:00:09.211	"	"	"text: 	""[    0.742371]  generic_perform_write+0x113/0x210 ""
vmId: 	{50319176-6d20-4472-9996-938007e9f818}"				4880	4960	5		00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000		
1564	False	Microsoft.Windows.Lxss.Manager	GuestLog	0	03-09-2025 13:00:09.211	"	"	"text: 	""[    0.742474]  ext4_buffered_write_iter+0x9f/0x160 ""
vmId: 	{50319176-6d20-4472-9996-938007e9f818}"				4880	4960	5		00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000		
1565	False	Microsoft.Windows.Lxss.Manager	GuestLog	0	03-09-2025 13:00:09.212	"	"	"text: 	""[    0.742566]  new_sync_write+0x119/0x1b0 ""
vmId: 	{50319176-6d20-4472-9996-938007e9f818}"				4880	4960	5		00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000		
1566	False	Microsoft.Windows.Lxss.Manager	GuestLog	0	03-09-2025 13:00:09.212	"	"	"text: 	""[    0.742637]  vfs_write+0x1db/0x280 ""
vmId: 	{50319176-6d20-4472-9996-938007e9f818}"				4880	4960	5		00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000		
1567	False	Microsoft.Windows.Lxss.Manager	GuestLog	0	03-09-2025 13:00:09.212	"	"	"text: 	""[    0.742707]  ksys_write+0x5f/0xe0 ""
vmId: 	{50319176-6d20-4472-9996-938007e9f818}"				4880	4960	5		00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000		
1568	False	Microsoft.Windows.Lxss.Manager	GuestLog	0	03-09-2025 13:00:09.212	"	"	"text: 	""[    0.742775]  do_syscall_64+0x35/0xb0 ""
vmId: 	{50319176-6d20-4472-9996-938007e9f818}"				4880	4960	5		00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000		
1569	False	Microsoft.Windows.Lxss.Manager	GuestLog	0	03-09-2025 13:00:09.212	"	"	"text: 	""[    0.742845]  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6c/0xd6 ""
vmId: 	{50319176-6d20-4472-9996-938007e9f818}"				4880	4960	5		00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000		
1570	False	Microsoft.Windows.Lxss.Manager	GuestLog	0	03-09-2025 13:00:09.212	"	"	"text: 	""[    0.742938] RIP: 0033:0x7f5ca89fea47 ""
vmId: 	{50319176-6d20-4472-9996-938007e9f818}"				4880	4960	5		00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000		
1571	False	Microsoft.Windows.Lxss.Manager	GuestLog	0	03-09-2025 13:00:09.212	"	"	"text: 	""[    0.743007] Code: 0f 00 f7 d8 64 89 02 48 c7 c0 ff ff ff ff eb b7 0f 1f 00 f3 0f 1e fa 64 8b 04 25 18 00 00 00 85 c0 75 10 b8 01 00 00 00 0f 05 <48> 3d 00 f0 ff ff 77 51 c3 48 83 ec 28 48 89 54 24 18 48 89 74 24 ""
vmId: 	{50319176-6d20-4472-9996-938007e9f818}"				4880	4960	5		00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000		
1572	False	Microsoft.Windows.Lxss.Manager	GuestLog	0	03-09-2025 13:00:09.212	"	"	"text: 	""[    0.743350] RSP: 002b:00007ffe77ff45b8 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000001 ""
vmId: 	{50319176-6d20-4472-9996-938007e9f818}"				4880	4960	5		00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000		
1573	False	Microsoft.Windows.Lxss.Manager	GuestLog	0	03-09-2025 13:00:09.212	"	"	"text: 	""[    0.743489] RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 00007f5ca89fea47 ""
vmId: 	{50319176-6d20-4472-9996-938007e9f818}"				4880	4960	5		00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000		
1574	False	Microsoft.Windows.Lxss.Manager	GuestLog	0	03-09-2025 13:00:09.213	"	"	"text: 	""[    0.743625] RDX: 0000000000010000 RSI: 0000560243d979b0 RDI: 0000000000000003 ""
vmId: 	{50319176-6d20-4472-9996-938007e9f818}"				4880	4960	5		00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000		
1575	False	Microsoft.Windows.Lxss.Manager	GuestLog	0	03-09-2025 13:00:09.213	"	"	"text: 	""[    0.743761] RBP: 0000560243d6f070 R08: 00007f5ca8b9b760 R09: 0000000000008000 ""
vmId: 	{50319176-6d20-4472-9996-938007e9f818}"				4880	4960	5		00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000		
1576	False	Microsoft.Windows.Lxss.Manager	GuestLog	0	03-09-2025 13:00:09.213	"	"	"text: 	""[    0.743899] R10: 000000000000004e R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000010000 ""
vmId: 	{50319176-6d20-4472-9996-938007e9f818}"				4880	4960	5		00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000		
1577	False	Microsoft.Windows.Lxss.Manager	GuestLog	0	03-09-2025 13:00:09.213	"	"	"text: 	""[    0.744036] R13: 0000000000010000 R14: 0000560243d979b0 R15: 0000000000010000 ""
vmId: 	{50319176-6d20-4472-9996-938007e9f818}"				4880	4960	5		00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000		
1578	False	Microsoft.Windows.Lxss.Manager	GuestLog	0	03-09-2025 13:00:09.213	"	"	"text: 	""[    0.744173]  </TASK> ""
vmId: 	{50319176-6d20-4472-9996-938007e9f818}"				4880	4960	5		00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000		
1579	False	Microsoft.Windows.Lxss.Manager	GuestLog	0	03-09-2025 13:00:09.213	"	"	"text: 	""[    0.744218] Modules linked in: ""
vmId: 	{50319176-6d20-4472-9996-938007e9f818}"				4880	4960	5		00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000		
1580	False	Microsoft.Windows.Lxss.Manager	GuestLog	0	03-09-2025 13:00:09.213	"	"	"text: 	""[    0.744304] ---[ end trace 04f4b5732ffa8bec ]--- ""
vmId: 	{50319176-6d20-4472-9996-938007e9f818}"				4880	4960	5		00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000		
1581	False	Microsoft.Windows.Lxss.Manager	GuestLog	0	03-09-2025 13:00:09.213	"	"	"text: 	""[    0.744464] RIP: 0010:ext4_mark_iloc_dirty+0x573/0xb00 ""
vmId: 	{50319176-6d20-4472-9996-938007e9f818}"				4880	4960	5		00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000		
1582	False	Microsoft.Windows.Lxss.Manager	GuestLog	0	03-09-2025 13:00:09.214	"	"	"text: 	""[    0.744557] Code: 00 00 49 8b 7e 28 44 89 e1 ba 54 14 00 00 48 c7 c6 00 93 44 b1 e8 8d 65 03 00 48 85 ed 74 08 48 89 ef e8 80 4a f7 ff 48 8b 03 <f0> ff 48 60 48 83 c4 48 44 89 e0 5b 5d 41 5c 41 5d 41 5e 41 5f c3 ""
vmId: 	{50319176-6d20-4472-9996-938007e9f818}"				4880	4960	5		00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000		
1583	False	Microsoft.Windows.Lxss.Manager	GuestLog	0	03-09-2025 13:00:09.214	"	"	"text: 	""[    0.744876] RSP: 0018:ffffac218213bbf0 EFLAGS: 00010202 ""
vmId: 	{50319176-6d20-4472-9996-938007e9f818}"				4880	4960	5		00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000		
1584	False	Microsoft.Windows.Lxss.Manager	GuestLog	0	03-09-2025 13:00:09.214	"	"	"text: 	""[    0.744968] RAX: 01a8ca2800000000 RBX: ffffac218213bcbc RCX: 0000000000000000 ""
vmId: 	{50319176-6d20-4472-9996-938007e9f818}"				4880	4960	5		00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000		
1585	False	Microsoft.Windows.Lxss.Manager	GuestLog	0	03-09-2025 13:00:09.214	"	"	"text: 	""[    0.745107] RDX: ffff9061035b7800 RSI: ffff90610b55c478 RDI: ffff90610b55c478 ""
vmId: 	{50319176-6d20-4472-9996-938007e9f818}"				4880	4960	5		00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000		
1586	False	Microsoft.Windows.Lxss.Manager	GuestLog	0	03-09-2025 13:00:09.214	"	"	"text: 	""[    0.745244] RBP: ffff90610b55c478 R08: ffff90610b55c478 R09: 0000000000000004 ""
vmId: 	{50319176-6d20-4472-9996-938007e9f818}"				4880	4960	5		00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000		
1587	False	Microsoft.Windows.Lxss.Manager	GuestLog	0	03-09-2025 13:00:09.214	"	"	"text: 	""[    0.745383] R10: 0000000000000064 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 0000000000000000 ""
vmId: 	{50319176-6d20-4472-9996-938007e9f818}"				4880	4960	5		00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000		
1588	False	Microsoft.Windows.Lxss.Manager	GuestLog	0	03-09-2025 13:00:09.215	"	"	"text: 	""[    0.745524] R13: 000000000000003c R14: ffff906101a8ca28 R15: ffff906101aca000 ""
vmId: 	{50319176-6d20-4472-9996-938007e9f818}"				4880	4960	5		00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000		
1589	False	Microsoft.Windows.Lxss.Manager	GuestLog	0	03-09-2025 13:00:09.215	"	"	"text: 	""[    0.745707] FS:  00007f5ca837ddc0(0000) GS:ffff9061ffc00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 ""
vmId: 	{50319176-6d20-4472-9996-938007e9f818}"				4880	4960	5		00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000		
1590	False	Microsoft.Windows.Lxss.Manager	GuestLog	0	03-09-2025 13:00:09.215	"	"	"text: 	""[    0.745846] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 ""
vmId: 	{50319176-6d20-4472-9996-938007e9f818}"				4880	4960	5		00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000		
1591	False	Microsoft.Windows.Lxss.Manager	GuestLog	0	03-09-2025 13:00:09.215	"	"	"text: 	""[    0.745961] CR2: 0000561f4658288c CR3: 0000000101c98005 CR4: 0000000000370eb0 ""
vmId: 	{50319176-6d20-4472-9996-938007e9f818}"				4880	4960	5		00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000		
1592	False	Microsoft.Windows.Lxss.Manager	GuestLog	0	03-09-2025 13:00:09.215	"	"	"text: 	""[    0.746100] Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception ""
vmId: 	{50319176-6d20-4472-9996-938007e9f818}"				4880	4960	5		00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000

I wonder if this could be caused by the custom memory or default disk size. Can you try remove everything from .wslconfig, and see if the issue reproduces again (and if so, please capture logs of a repro so we can drill down).

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