Failing to translate all drives randomly.
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Description
### Windows Version
Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.22631.4460]
### WSL Version
2.3.26.0
### Are you using WSL 1 or WSL 2?
- [x] WSL 2
- [ ] WSL 1
### Kernel Version
5.15.167.4-1
### Distro Version
_No response_
### Other Software
_No response_
### Repro Steps
Just starting WSL.
### Expected Behavior
Windows directories should be available inside wsl and wsl should start without errors.
### Actual Behavior
My PC only has C: and D: drive. Both never been changed, removed or renamed.
Running dir inside wsl for c and d in /mnt prints nothing.
Sometimes it happens randomly and just fixes itself randomly too.
Here is the terminal output when starting wsl.
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PS C:\Users\yasha> wsl
<3>WSL (23) ERROR: CreateProcessParseCommon:763: Failed to translate C:\Users\yasha
<3>WSL (23) ERROR: UtilTranslatePathList:2852: Failed to translate C:\Program Files\PowerShell\7
<3>WSL (23) ERROR: UtilTranslatePathList:2852: Failed to translate C:\Program Files\NVIDIA GPU Computing Toolkit\CUDA\v12.6\bin\
<3>WSL (23) ERROR: UtilTranslatePathList:2852: Failed to translate C:\Program Files\NVIDIA GPU Computing Toolkit\CUDA\v12.6\libnvvp\
<3>WSL (23) ERROR: UtilTranslatePathList:2852: Failed to translate C:\Windows\system32\
<3>WSL (23) ERROR: UtilTranslatePathList:2852: Failed to translate C:\Windows
<3>WSL (23) ERROR: UtilTranslatePathList:2852: Failed to translate C:\Windows\System32\Wbem\
<3>WSL (23) ERROR: UtilTranslatePathList:2852: Failed to translate C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\
<3>WSL (23) ERROR: UtilTranslatePathList:2852: Failed to translate C:\Windows\System32\OpenSSH\
<3>WSL (23) ERROR: UtilTranslatePathList:2852: Failed to translate C:\Program Files (x86)\NVIDIA Corporation\PhysX\Common\
<3>WSL (23) ERROR: UtilTranslatePathList:2852: Failed to translate C:\Program Files\NVIDIA Corporation\NVIDIA NvDLISR\
<3>WSL (23) ERROR: UtilTranslatePathList:2852: Failed to translate C:\Program Files\dotnet\
<3>WSL (23) ERROR: UtilTranslatePathList:2852: Failed to translate C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\Windows Performance Toolkit\
<3>WSL (23) ERROR: UtilTranslatePathList:2852: Failed to translate C:\Program Files\NVIDIA Corporation\Nsight Compute 2024.3.2\
<3>WSL (23) ERROR: UtilTranslatePathList:2852: Failed to translate C:\Program Files\PowerShell\7\
<3>WSL (23) ERROR: UtilTranslatePathList:2852: Failed to translate C:\Users\yasha\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps\
<3>WSL (23) ERROR: UtilTranslatePathList:2852: Failed to translate C:\Users\yasha\AppData\Local\Programs\Microsoft VS Code\bin\
<3>WSL (23) ERROR: UtilTranslatePathList:2852: Failed to translate C:\Users\yasha\.dotnet\tools\
<3>WSL (23) ERROR: UtilTranslatePathList:2852: Failed to translate C:\Users\yasha\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WinGet\Packages\Gyan.FFmpeg.Shared_Microsoft.Winget.Source_8wekyb3d8bbwe\ffmpeg-7.1-full_build-shared\bin
<3>WSL (23) ERROR: UtilTranslatePathList:2852: Failed to translate C:\Users\yasha\AppData\Local\Programs\Microsoft VS Code\bin
<3>WSL (23) ERROR: UtilTranslatePathList:2852: Failed to translate C:\Users\yasha\AppData\Local\Programs\Git\cmd
[root@Zephyrus ~]#
### Diagnostic Logs
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Research direction
Start by reproducing WSL 2 startup with the reported Windows 10 setup and compare the CreateProcessParseCommon and UtilTranslatePathList errors. Investigate the intermittent failure to translate the listed Windows paths and mount C: and D: under /mnt; done means WSL starts without errors and both drives are accessible.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- cpp, linux
- Domain
- operating-systems
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 30/100