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✅ 1.11.1 works ⛔ 1.12.x do not work

joys of WSL being an MSIX, MSI, and OS feature all in one "thing". Did you try and make sure WSL was installed and working manually before installing RD? I know for any apps dependent on WSL I have switched to that happening before (including reboot) rather than make the tools try and orchestrate that. too many gotchas.

For RD 1.11.1 the wsl installation looks good. For 1.12.x an error occurs when performing

wsl -update

. Is there some compatibilty matrix which wsl version is required for which RD version and which Windows version?

i know

wsl --update

should run in user context and also has a bug because of that requiring UAC for Host Network Service so could be tripping over the install context.

The question is, what to do about it?

For the next version, we'll need WSL with kernel 5.15 or higher; but otherwise, we shouldn't have been trying to run

wsl --update

automatically as of 1.12… Either way, the thing to do is probably to either • Install the store version of WSL (or the

.msixbundle

from https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/releases) before starting the Rancher Desktop installer. • Force the installer to stop checking for WSL by setting

WSLINSTALLED=1

as an msiexec property. Note that this means you're responsible for manually installing a version of WSL that works; otherwise we'll still fail to start.