error 0x80070002 when launching most commands against WSL2

[danielkcz]

Environment

Windows build number: 10.0.19041.0
Windows Terminal version (if applicable): 1.3.2651.0
PowerShell: 7.0.1

Steps to reproduce

Running wt top within Powershell while having WSL Ubuntu-20.04 as the default profile.
Specifying -p "Ubuntu-20.04 yields the same result.
Tried several other commands that work when executed manually from bash.

Expected behavior

I want to run wt yarn (among other commands in split panes) to set up my environment for development easily.

Actual behavior

The new terminal opens with the correct profile and only shows the error

I have a feeling that WT is trying to run these commands too soon before WSL is properly initialized.

[zadjii-msft]

Yea, that's not exactly how the commandline parameter to wt works. When you pass in foo as the commandline, it doesn't append it to the profile's commandline, it overrides the commandline of the profile. So in your examples, above, the Terminal is literally looking for top.exe, pwd.exe, yarn.exe, when what you really want is wsl -d Ubuntu-20.04 top.

"Add support for appending a commandline to a profile's commandline" is being tracked over in /dup #5528

[ghost]

Hi! We've identified this issue as a duplicate of another one that already exists on this Issue Tracker. This specific instance is being closed in favor of tracking the concern over on the referenced thread. Thanks for your report!

[danielkcz]

Wait, how is wsl going to help me here? I mean sure it will run top inside Powershell, but that's not what I am looking for. I want to set up a one-liner that would line launch a new WT window with several split panes and run some command in each.

I guess I will follow #5528 as that indeed seems the same problem I am facing. Thanks!

[zadjii-msft]

When you're running a WSL profile, the commandline is technically wsl.exe -d <the distro's name>. So the commandline for the Ubuntu-20.04 profile is wsl.exe -d Ubuntu-20.04. So you definitely could get what you're looking for with the wt parameters, it'll just be V E R B O S E

wt wsl -d Ubuntu-20.04 top ; sp wsl -d Ubuntu-20.04 yarn ; wsl -d Ubuntu-20.04 pwd

(using sp as the short form of split-pane, introduced in #6576)