Failing to translate all drives randomly.

[StrixLake]

Windows Version

Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.22631.4460]

WSL Version

2.3.26.0

Are you using WSL 1 or WSL 2?

• WSL 2
• WSL 1

Kernel Version

5.15.167.4-1

Distro Version

No response

Other Software

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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.

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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Diagnostic information

Detected appx version: 2.3.26.0

[StrixLake]

Update: This does not happen when starting wsl from admin terminal.

[OneBlue]

Thank you for reporting this @StrixLake. Looking at the logs, I can see that WSL is getting access denied when trying to open the disks:

Microsoft.Windows.HyperV.Worker	FallbackError	11-14-2024 21:45:42.850	"	"	"wilResult: 
{
	callContext: 	
	currentContextId: 	0
	currentContextMessage: 	
	currentContextName: 	
	failureCount: 	1
	failureId: 	1
	failureType: 	0
	fileName: 	onecore\vm\dv\storage\plan9\dll\windows\p9fs.cpp
	function: 	
	hresult: 	0x80070005
	lineNumber: 	673
	message: 	
	module: 	vp9fs.dll
	originatingContextId: 	0
	originatingContextMessage: 	
	originatingContextName: 	
	threadId: 	12056
}"	onecore\vm\dv\storage\plan9\dll\windows\p9fs.cpp	673	 	20724	12056	2		00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000		

What permissions do you have on those disks ? Do you have any installed programs that could interface with WSL accessing those when non-elevated ?

[StrixLake]

I did not change any permissions. For Drive C and D, admins have full control and users have read & execute, as seen from drive properties under security tab.
I do not have any program installed, to my knowledge, that could interface with WSL accessing those drives. I did have docker desktop installed but I was having this problem before that as well and I have also uninstalled docker since and the problem still persists. I have also tried using different distros as well as uninstalling all distros and importing a tar ball.

Let me know if I can send you any other log file.

[OneBlue]

Ok interesting. Could you share which permissions you have the drive's root folders ?

[StrixLake]

All the folders in both the drives have same permissions for admins and users. Creator Owner and System don't have any permissions for C:\Windows, C:\Program files(x86) and C:\Program files but have full permissions for C:\Users and all folders in D:.

[jwefers]

Same issue here. We run BeyondTrust Privilege Management, so maybe there is an issue.

<3>WSL (286) ERROR: UtilTranslatePathList:2852: Failed to translate C:\WINDOWS\system32
<3>WSL (286) ERROR: UtilTranslatePathList:2852: Failed to translate C:\WINDOWS
<3>WSL (286) ERROR: UtilTranslatePathList:2852: Failed to translate C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem
<3>WSL (286) ERROR: UtilTranslatePathList:2852: Failed to translate C:\WINDOWS\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\
<3>WSL (286) ERROR: UtilTranslatePathList:2852: Failed to translate C:\WINDOWS\System32\OpenSSH\
<3>WSL (286) ERROR: UtilTranslatePathList:2852: Failed to translate C:\Program Files\dotnet\
<3>WSL (286) ERROR: UtilTranslatePathList:2852: Failed to translate C:\Program Files\Git\cmd
<3>WSL (286) ERROR: UtilTranslatePathList:2852: Failed to translate C:\Program Files\PowerShell\7\
<3>WSL (286) ERROR: UtilTranslatePathList:2852: Failed to translate C:\Program Files\Docker\Docker\resources\bin
<3>WSL (286) ERROR: UtilTranslatePathList:2852: Failed to translate C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps
<3>WSL (286) ERROR: UtilTranslatePathList:2852: Failed to translate C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Local\Programs\Microsoft VS Code\bin

[Lucide]

Update: This does not happen when starting wsl from admin terminal.

Same issue here, I'm connecting to the machine over ssh, and launching wsl as a standard user (no admin privileges).

$ ssh <user>@<addr>
$ gsudo --integrity Medium
$ gsudo status
Caller Pid: 14452
Running as:
  User: <host>\<user>
  Sid: S-1-5-21-2497331860-208642046-2092648152-1001
  Is Admin: False
  Integrity Level: Medium (8192)
  <...>
$ wsl

<3>WSL (401) ERROR: CreateProcessParseCommon:763: Failed to translate C:\Users\<user>
<3>WSL (401) ERROR: UtilTranslatePathList:2852: Failed to translate C:\Program Files\Microsoft\jdk-17.
0.13.11-hotspot\bin
<3>WSL (401) ERROR: UtilTranslatePathList:2852: Failed to translate C:\WINDOWS
<3>WSL (401) ERROR: UtilTranslatePathList:2852: Failed to translate C:\WINDOWS\system32
<...>
<3>WSL (401) ERROR: UtilTranslatePathList:2852: Failed to translate C:\Portables\local\rust\cargo\bin

But in the local machine, wsl works normally without privileges. I apologize if deemed unrelated.

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