On Fri, 2022-09-30 at 16:15 +0100, Luca Boccassi wrote:
> Control: forwarded -1 https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/8927
> 
> On Thu, 29 Sep 2022 21:44:29 +0000 Sean Whalen <sea...@pm.me> wrote:
> > I just created a bug report in the official Microsoft WSL project
> > on
> > GitHub to track the issue there as well, and maybe get some
> > eyeballs
> > from Microsoft.
> > 
> > https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/8927
> 
> I've talked with both the internal team and the Debian maintainer of
> the WSL image. This is a WSL 1.0 specific issue, and there's not much
> we can do in usrmerge about it, as it's related to the underlying
> filesystem that we can't touch anyway.
> 
> The Debian stable WSL image in the store will be updated shortly to
> be
> merged-usr out of the box, so this won't happen again for new
> installations, and on upgrade to bookworm it will be a no-op. Older
> installations on WSL 1.0 will have to remove and reinstall, unless a
> workaround is found, but for that please use the upstream bug tracker
> as here we really can't figure out what the problem is.
> 
> Also please note that it would be a good idea to just move to WSL 2.0
> for all use cases at this point.
> 
> Hence, setting the forwarded address and closing.

The Debian WSL maintainer uploaded a new version to the store, which is
merged-usr, so the issue will no longer happen for new installations.

-- 
Kind regards,
Luca Boccassi

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