Opened 4 years ago
Last modified 4 years ago
#20081 new defect
Installing Linux subsystem on windows 10 caused read/write error inside running linux mint (in virtual box)
| Reported by: | Nemesis 77 | Owned by: | |
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| Component: | virtual disk | Version: | VirtualBox 6.1.16 |
| Keywords: | failure | Cc: | |
| Guest type: | Linux | Host type: | Windows |
Description
I'm not used to write these, but if this is a real but, it's a serious one.
I don't have any log files, because during the search for a solution, things have been purged and reinstall many times.
but I'll try to describe as good as I can.
Basically, I installed Linux subsystem on my windows 10 2004 machine.
Then I upgraded the wsl1 to wsl2 on windows.
Now after the night, I had some scripts running on my linux, scanning and identifying images /copying/sorting.
on the morning it had crashed, and in the terminal running the script it said something about "segmentation fault core dumped"
I didn't realize it was so serious so I only restarted it.
I got a few screenshots from a boot, don't remember what I booted, if it was a rescue disc or linux mint installation disc, but it shows some error info.
I uninstalled linux subsystem and Ubuntu 20 that I had installed on Windows, and tried to install linux mint on a new virtual box, but after a while updates started to fail, and installation of software resulted in read/write error.
after a while I remembered that I didn't uninstall the wsl2 update from windows.
I uninstalled it, tried to reinstall linux mint, an now everything worked fine, no issues, no errors, everything worked as it should.
so apparently did the wsl2 update interfere with how virtual box was accessing the .vdi files?
well, that's basically what happened.. sorry I can't give any logs, but this issue might be worth investigating..
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You're not the first one who has been hit by this: https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/WSL/issues/536