Vscode-remote-release: wsl2: Failed to install 'ms-vscode-remote.remote-wsl'

[imoldfella]

Hoping you can give me some things to try, I'm probably doing something wrong? This worked for a couple weeks, then just stopped connecting after recent windows update. This is a custom kernel, but I haven't had problems with it on anything but vs code. When I use the debug address from bash/wsl I get 6849775440496504e0677ffcf2a46d47ad9130f5. Strangely from windows I can connect to that debug address as localhost, but not as 127.0.0.1. Both localhost and 127.0.0.1 work from ubuntu. Thanks, visual studio code is great.

log.txt

[Shahaed]

I am also getting this on WSL2

[tautomer]

For me the problem was that the folder %userprofile%\.vscode\extensions\ms-vscode-remote.remote-wsl-0.44.2 was locked bywslhost, so VS Code won't be able to delete the folder and reinstall remote-wsl.

Qutting VS code, killing wsl host and deleting the folder allowed me to reinstall remote-wsl.

[WSLUser]

That didn't work for me. I also was using Clear Linux on WSL2 if that makes a difference.

[Msadr471]

I am also getting this on WSL2

what should I do?

[PavelSosin-320]

Aware of incompatible changes in WSL 2 release since 20151! I Only Distros installed after upgrade started for me smoothly. All others required some manipulations like re-install. It works! It only starts differently! WSL does some things once, during 1st distro start. There is no automatic dependents upgrade.

[Msadr471]

Aware of incompatible changes in WSL 2 release since 20151! I Only Distros installed after upgrade started for me smoothly. All others required some manipulations like re-install. It works! It only starts differently! WSL does some things once, during 1st distro start. There is no automatic dependents upgrade.

thank you. Yes, I was able to find the problem and fix it.

[haslinghuis]

Cannot install any extensions due to XHR failure? (At least I could install the WSL Remote Extension manually)

• I am not behind a proxy or enterprise firewall
• Windows 10 Pro build 2004 with fresh installed WSL2 using fresh installed Ubuntu 20.04
• Removed Visual Studio 2017

[haslinghuis]

Two rules in Defender Firewall were blocking access. Guess a telemetry blocking script I forget I had installed is now begging for attention 😦

telemetry_cs1.wpc.v0cdn.net
telemetry_az361816.vo.msecnd.net

Note: It is not about being tracked. I use my smartphone as router with unlimited data plan but still like to minimize traffic because a 5GB day limit with free SMS upgrades which are annoying, so I like to keep my daily traffic below the 5GB limit.

[aeschli]

Looking at the logs in the original description, WSL2 is detected but in the end we try to connect it as WSL1.

There has been fixes for that in 0.44.4.

@imoldfella Do you still see the issue?

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