Running Windows 2019 server produces an exit code of 1

[peter-ro]

When integrating the following into my repo:

• uses: Vampire/setup-wsl@v1
  with:
  cache: 'false'
  distribution: Ubuntu-18.04
  set-as-default: 'true'

Returns an exit code of 1 but the installation of file and directories looks like it ran successfully - unsure if the distribution is installed on the system. We are running this within an Azure cloud environment on a Windows 2019 Server - which is a self-hosted github runner.

Is it because the following command needs to be ran?
wsl-shell-command: bash -c "sudo -u test bash --noprofile --norc -euo pipefail "

[peter-ro]

Please see above comment: #10 (comment)

[peter-ro]

The exit code 1 occurs when it tries to install Ubuntu-18.04

[Vampire]

Besides that cache is not a valid input to my action, but use-cache would be, what is the output of the action?
Can you provide the log files?

Maybe also set a repository secret with name ACTIONS_STEP_DEBUG and value true first and rerun the job to get more verbose logging.

[peter-ro]

Apologies, I did not mean cache but use-cache. The output of the job is:

Run actions/[email protected]
Verify Windows Environment
Install Distribution
Error: The process 'C:\actions-runner_work_tool\Ubuntu\16.4.0\x64\ubuntu1604.exe' failed with exit code 1

Attached are the logs.

GA-WSL-01-logs.zip

[peter-ro]

Here is a more detailed look at the logs with ACTIONS_STEP_DEBUG set to true.

GA-WSL-02-logs.zip

[Vampire]

I moved this to a discussion, as I don't think this is an issue with my action.
I tried the very same options on the GHA hosted windows server 2019 environment and there it worked flawlessly.
So I can just assume that something on your self-hosted runner is not setup properly.
Did you maybe not enable WSL on it? That's nothing my action can do as it requires administrative privileges and a restart.
The logs you attached show this:

2021-07-23T14:24:00.7669754Z Installing, this may take a few minutes...
2021-07-23T14:24:00.7685570Z 
2021-07-23T14:24:00.7728886Z WslRegisterDistribution failed with error: 0x80070005
2021-07-23T14:24:00.7736104Z 
2021-07-23T14:24:00.7744752Z Error: 0x80070005 Access is denied.
2021-07-23T14:24:00.7745257Z 
2021-07-23T14:24:00.7745579Z 
2021-07-23T14:24:00.7745842Z 
2021-07-23T14:24:00.7746705Z ::endgroup::
2021-07-23T14:24:00.7747013Z ##[endgroup]
2021-07-23T14:24:01.4524429Z ##[debug]Error: The process 'C:\actions-runner\_work\_tool\Ubuntu\16.4.0\x64\ubuntu1604.exe' failed with exit code 1

So you should probably Google for how to resolve error 0x80070005 when installing ubuntu wsl distribution and try to fix that.