Failing to install fresh NixOS-WSL [2311.5.3] Timely Tapir on WSL2 2.1.5.0

[00prometheus]

After downloading https://github.com/nix-community/NixOS-WSL/releases/download/2311.5.3/nixos-wsl.tar.gz, opening a CMD and trying to install NixOs for the first time, I get this:

$ wsl --import NixOs I:\wsl2\NixOs\ nixos-wsl.tar.gz
$ wsl -d NixOs
<3>WSL (125) ERROR: CreateProcessParseCommon:711: Failed to translate C:\Users\<myaccount>\Downloads\Crud
<3>WSL (125) ERROR: CreateProcessParseCommon:757: getpwuid(0) failed 2
<3>WSL (125) ERROR: UtilTranslatePathList:2866: Failed to translate C:\Windows\system32
<3>WSL (125) ERROR: UtilTranslatePathList:2866: Failed to translate C:\Windows
<3>WSL (125) ERROR: UtilTranslatePathList:2866: Failed to translate C:\Windows\System32\Wbem
<3>WSL (125) ERROR: UtilTranslatePathList:2866: Failed to translate C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\
<3>WSL (125) ERROR: UtilTranslatePathList:2866: Failed to translate C:\Windows\System32\OpenSSH\
<3>WSL (125) ERROR: UtilTranslatePathList:2866: Failed to translate C:\Program Files\NVIDIA Corporation\NVIDIA NvDLISR
<3>WSL (125) ERROR: UtilTranslatePathList:2866: Failed to translate C:\Program Files (x86)\NVIDIA Corporation\PhysX\Common
<3>WSL (125) ERROR: UtilTranslatePathList:2866: Failed to translate C:\Program Files\Calibre2\
<3>WSL (125) ERROR: UtilTranslatePathList:2866: Failed to translate C:\Program Files\PuTTY\
<3>WSL (125) ERROR: UtilTranslatePathList:2866: Failed to translate C:\Program Files\dotnet\
<3>WSL (125) ERROR: UtilTranslatePathList:2866: Failed to translate C:\WINDOWS\system32
<3>WSL (125) ERROR: UtilTranslatePathList:2866: Failed to translate C:\WINDOWS
<3>WSL (125) ERROR: UtilTranslatePathList:2866: Failed to translate C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem
<3>WSL (125) ERROR: UtilTranslatePathList:2866: Failed to translate C:\WINDOWS\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\
<3>WSL (125) ERROR: UtilTranslatePathList:2866: Failed to translate C:\WINDOWS\System32\OpenSSH\
<3>WSL (125) ERROR: UtilTranslatePathList:2866: Failed to translate C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\Windows Performance Toolkit\
<3>WSL (125) ERROR: UtilTranslatePathList:2866: Failed to translate C:\Users\<myaccount>\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps
<3>WSL (125) ERROR: UtilTranslatePathList:2866: Failed to translate C:\Users\<myaccount>\AppData\Local\Programs\Hyper\resources\bin
Processing fstab with mount -a failed.
Failed to mount C:\, see dmesg for more details.
Failed to mount D:\, see dmesg for more details.
Failed to mount E:\, see dmesg for more details.
Failed to mount F:\, see dmesg for more details.
Failed to mount G:\, see dmesg for more details.
Failed to mount H:\, see dmesg for more details.
Failed to mount I:\, see dmesg for more details.

<3>WSL (125) ERROR: CreateProcessEntryCommon:334: getpwuid(0) failed 2
<3>WSL (125) ERROR: CreateProcessEntryCommon:505: execvpe /bin/sh failed 2
<3>WSL (125) ERROR: CreateProcessEntryCommon:508: Create process not expected to return

wsl --list shows that it is registered and I can see the install from Windows Explorer as a Linux partition. I have a previous Ubuntu install that works fine and sees all Windows-drives:

$ wsl --list
Windows Subsystem for Linux Distributions:
Ubuntu (Default)
docker-desktop-data
Ubuntu-old
NixOs
docker-desktop

My %USERPROFILE%\.wslconfig contains:

[wsl2]
memory=8GB
swap=2GB

and my WSL2 is the Windows Store version:

$ wsl --version
WSL version: 2.1.5.0
Kernel version: 5.15.146.1-2
WSLg version: 1.0.60
MSRDC version: 1.2.5105
Direct3D version: 1.611.1-81528511
DXCore version: 10.0.25131.1002-220531-1700.rs-onecore-base2-hyp
Windows version: 10.0.22631.3374

Any ideas?

[nzbr]

It seems that WSL can't run /bin/sh for some reason

Check if you're able to access the recovery shell:

wsl -d nix-dbg --user root --system /mnt/wslg/distro/bin/nixos-wsl-recovery

Also check the hash of the tarball you downloaded if you haven't already, just to make sure that there was no file corruption

[00prometheus]

Wow, the checksum was wrong! I haven't seen that in decades, not since I used old 28k8 modems! 😂 After re-downloading, everything is working fine.

[nzbr]

You're the second person this happened to on this repo, actually. And the previous one was with a different release. Makes me believe there might be some rare bug on GitHub's end