WSL installing error with error code 0x80073701

[ghost]

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• Your Windows build number: (Type ver at a Windows Command Prompt)

Microsoft Windows [版本 10.0.17134.407]

• What you're doing and what's happening: (Copy&paste specific commands and their output, or include screen shots)

PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> Enable-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online -FeatureName Microsoft-Windows-Subsystem-Linux
Enable-WindowsOptionalFeature : 找不到引用的汇编。
所在位置 行:1 字符: 1

• Enable-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online -FeatureName Microsoft-Windows- ...

•   + CategoryInfo          : NotSpecified: (:) [Enable-WindowsOptionalFeature], COMException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : Microsoft.Dism.Commands.EnableWindowsOptionalFeatureCommand
  
  

• What's wrong / what should be happening instead:

It is a WSL installing error.
When I try starting Microsoft Windows Subsystem for Linux, I failed.

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The C:\Windows\Logs\CBS\CBS.log is:

2018-11-20 11:10:21, Error CSI 0000001a@2018/11/20:03:10:21.334 (F) onecore\base\wcp\componentstore\csd_locking.cpp(95): Error STATUS_SXS_ASSEMBLY_MISSING originated in function CCSDirectTransaction::LockComponent expression: (null) [gle=0x80004005]
2018-11-20 11:10:22, Error CSI 0000001b (F) STATUS_SXS_ASSEMBLY_MISSING #412928# from CCSDirectTransaction::OperateEnding at index 0 of 1 operations, disposition 2[gle=0xd015000c]
2018-11-20 11:10:22, Error CSI 0000001c (F) HRESULT_FROM_WIN32(ERROR_SXS_ASSEMBLY_MISSING) #412770# from Windows::ServicingAPI::CCSITransaction::ICSITransaction_PinDeployment(Flags = 0, a = 3aa00062b58770764afae64242747ac3, version 10.0.17134.137, arch amd64, nonSxS, pkt {l:8 b:31bf3856ad364e35}, cb = (null), s = (null), rid = 'Package_1986_for_KB4338819~31bf3856ad364e35~amd64~~10.0.1.4.4338819-4022_neutral', rah = '2', manpath = (null), catpath = (null), ed = 0, disp = 0)[gle=0x80073701]
2018-11-20 11:10:22, Error CBS Failed to process single phase execution. [HRESULT = 0x80073701 - ERROR_SXS_ASSEMBLY_MISSING]
2018-11-20 11:10:22, Error CBS Failed to perform operation. [HRESULT = 0x80073701 - ERROR_SXS_ASSEMBLY_MISSING]
2018-11-20 11:10:24, Error CBS Attempt to change a finalized session [HRESULT = 0x800f0842 - CBS_E_SESSION_FINALIZED]
2018-11-20 11:10:24, Error CBS Attempt to change a finalized session [HRESULT = 0x800f0842 - CBS_E_SESSION_FINALIZED]
2018-11-20 11:10:24, Error CBS Attempt to change a finalized session [HRESULT = 0x800f0842 - CBS_E_SESSION_FINALIZED]
2018-11-20 11:10:24, Error CBS Attempt to change a finalized session [HRESULT = 0x800f0842 - CBS_E_SESSION_FINALIZED]
2018-11-20 11:10:24, Error CBS Attempt to change a finalized session [HRESULT = 0x800f0842 - CBS_E_SESSION_FINALIZED]
2018-11-20 11:10:24, Error CBS Attempt to change a finalized session [HRESULT = 0x800f0842 - CBS_E_SESSION_FINALIZED]
2018-11-20 11:10:24, Error CBS Attempt to change a finalized session [HRESULT = 0x800f0842 - CBS_E_SESSION_FINALIZED]
2018-11-20 11:10:24, Error CBS Attempt to change a finalized session [HRESULT = 0x800f0842 - CBS_E_SESSION_FINALIZED]
2018-11-20 11:10:24, Error CBS Attempt to change a finalized session [HRESULT = 0x800f0842 - CBS_E_SESSION_FINALIZED]
2018-11-20 11:10:24, Error CBS Attempt to change a finalized session [HRESULT = 0x800f0842 - CBS_E_SESSION_FINALIZED]
2018-11-20 11:10:24, Error CBS Attempt to change a finalized session [HRESULT = 0x800f0842 - CBS_E_SESSION_FINALIZED]
2018-11-20 11:10:24, Error CBS Attempt to change a finalized session [HRESULT = 0x800f0842 - CBS_E_SESSION_FINALIZED]
2018-11-20 11:10:24, Error CBS Attempt to change a finalized session [HRESULT = 0x800f0842 - CBS_E_SESSION_FINALIZED]
2018-11-20 11:10:24, Error CBS Attempt to change a finalized session [HRESULT = 0x800f0842 - CBS_E_SESSION_FINALIZED]2018-11-20 11:27:12, Info CBS TI: --- Initializing Trusted Installer ---

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When I try to use control panel to install it, I got an error code 0x80073701.

And also I have tried to use dism or "sfc /scannow" to fix the Windows, but the error doesn't disappear.
(As my native language isn't English, I'm sorry for my poor English.)

[norchai66]

Exactly the same issue here!

[ghost]

Well what distribution are you attempting to run? And where is it from, the Microsoft Store, or are you using a third-party tool & rootfs?

It is Ubuntu and from the Microsoft Store.

[ghost]

Well, after reinstalling Windows 10, I solved the problems. It is like my Windows lost some important files.

[xobs]

I'd like to add that I encountered this error -- 0x80073701 -- when using the GUI to enable WSL. Using the terminal and running Enable-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online -FeatureName Microsoft-Windows-Subsystem-Linux resulted in a working installation.