sed: can't read /etc/update-manager/release-upgrades: No such file or directory

[haroldjeshua]

Version

Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.19044.2486]

WSL Version

• WSL 2
• WSL 1

Kernel Version

Ubuntu-22.04

Distro Version

Ubuntu-22.04

Other Software

No response

Repro Steps

sed: can't read /etc/update-manager/release-upgrades: No such file or directory

Expected Behavior

After opening the terminal or running it, it should be directed to the root directory.

Actual Behavior

At startup, sometimes it results to this. Then after a while, like an hour or so, WSL comes back normal and operational.

Diagnostic Logs

I installed first Ubuntu 22.04 on the Microsoft Store early mid last year and it was stable until Dec, it starts to reproduce the error above. Then I run wsl --list --online and still doesn't show 22.04

[elsaco]

@haroldjeshua Ubuntu in wsl --list --online output is Ubuntu 22.04. It is defined in DistributionInfo.json. See details at https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/blob/master/distributions/DistributionInfo.json#L4

[grayhound]

@haroldjeshua Do you have Docker installed?

Try to run

wsl --list

It will show everything installed on your system.

If you have docker you may see something like this:

docker-desktop-data (Default)
docker-desktop
Ubuntu-22.04

In my case docker-desktop-data was by default which is wrong. I couldn't run docker and had the same error as yours trying to log in into Ubuntu. Exactly the same error.

To fix this run:

wsl --set-default Ubuntu-22.04

and then try to log in to your Ubuntu.

This is just a suggestion, your case maybe a little bit different.

The main idea - check that your Ubuntu-22.04 is a default one.

[MartyMcFlyInTheSky]

I got the same error after tinkering with the wsl.conf file under /etc (don't know if its related though...). As I saw it, my user is gone and there's just a default user. I can't even sudo su because 'sudo' is not recognised as a command. Something is utterly broken. I'm reinstalling the distro now, as idk how to recover from that.

[januaraliosada]

I fix it by restarting my pc

[quique0194]

I fixed it by restarting wsl only:

wsl --shutdown

[prithvirajaramesh]

Restart Your Pc it will Work