WSL2 devcontainer on windows host wslpath -w vs -u

[kdarby-cqg]

"same here, rolled back and it now works..."

Originally posted by @tukutela in #9064 (comment)

This issue seems not to be resolved in later version, a rollback to Dev Containers 0.309.0 is still necessary. Am I missing something?

[chrmarti]

Make sure you are using the latest versions of VS Code and the Remote-SSH and Dev Containers extensions.

If it still doesn't work, please append the Dev Containers log from when this happens. (F1 > Dev Containers: Show Container Log)

[WillPresley]

For what it's worth, I am setting up a relatively new machine, and having this exact issue. I setup Devcontainers on Windows 11 according to the documentation (Docker for Windows with WSL2 backend, 'Execute in WSL' enabled).

When I try to load a container, the path that is shown and fails is clearly a Windows-style one, and the command above it uses the -w flag. As soon as I rolled the Extension back to 0.309.0 and reloaded things, the pathing issue was fixed and the container spun up perfectly.

I can try to dig in and provide better logs later, I just needed to get this working as quickly as possible, and the extension downgrade did it!

[kdarby-cqg]

Here's the relevant piece

[3394 ms] Start: Run in Host: wslpath -w c:/code/cqg/bts/spark_sdk_sample [3617 ms] Command failed: ls -a c:/code/cqg/bts/spark_sdk_sample [3617 ms] ls: cannot access 'c:/code/cqg/bts/spark_sdk_sample': No such file or directory [3617 ms] Exit code 2

Here's the full log

[314 ms] Dev Containers 0.362.0 in VS Code 1.89.1 (dc96b837cf6bb4af9cd736aa3af08cf8279f7685).
[313 ms] Start: Run: wsl -d Ubuntu-20.04 -e wslpath -u c:\code\cqg\bts\spark_sdk_sample
[1034 ms] Start: Run: wsl -d Ubuntu-20.04 -e /bin/sh -c cd '/mnt/c/code/cqg/bts/spark_sdk_sample' && /bin/sh
[1073 ms] Start: Run in host: id -un
[1192 ms] darby
[1192 ms]
[1193 ms] Start: Run in host: (command -v getent >/dev/null 2>&1 && getent passwd 'darby' || grep -E '^darby|^[^:]:[^:]:darby:' /etc/passwd || true)
[1195 ms] Start: Run in host: echo ~
[1196 ms] /home/darby
[1196 ms]
[1197 ms] Start: Run in host: test -f '/home/darby/.vscode-server/cli/servers/Stable-dc96b837cf6bb4af9cd736aa3af08cf8279f7685/server/node'
[1198 ms]
[1198 ms]
[1198 ms] Exit code 1
[1199 ms] Start: Run in host: test -f '/home/darby/.vscode/cli/servers/Stable-dc96b837cf6bb4af9cd736aa3af08cf8279f7685/server/node'
[1200 ms]
[1200 ms]
[1200 ms] Exit code 1
[1201 ms] Start: Run in host: test -f '/home/darby/.vscode-server/bin/dc96b837cf6bb4af9cd736aa3af08cf8279f7685/node'
[1202 ms]
[1202 ms]
[1202 ms] Exit code 1
[1202 ms] Start: Run in host: test -f '/home/darby/.vscode-remote-containers/bin/dc96b837cf6bb4af9cd736aa3af08cf8279f7685/node'
[1203 ms]
[1204 ms]
[1204 ms] Start: Run in host: test -f '/home/darby/.vscode-remote-containers/bin/dc96b837cf6bb4af9cd736aa3af08cf8279f7685/node_modules/node-pty/package.json'
[1206 ms]
[1206 ms]
[1207 ms] Start: Run in host: test -f '/home/darby/.vscode-remote-containers/dist/vscode-remote-containers-server-0.362.0.js'
[1208 ms]
[1208 ms]
[1209 ms] userEnvProbe: loginInteractiveShell (default)
[1209 ms] userEnvProbe: not found in cache
[1209 ms] userEnvProbe shell: /bin/bash
[1760 ms] userEnvProbe PATHs:
Probe: '/home/darby/.local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games:/usr/lib/wsl/lib:/mnt/c/Program Files/Microsoft Visual Studio/2022/Professional/VC/Tools/MSVC/14.35.32215/bin/HostX86/x86:/mnt/c/Program Files/Microsoft Visual Studio/2022/Professional/Common7/IDE/VC/VCPackages:/mnt/c/Program Files/Microsoft Visual Studio/2022/Professional/Common7/IDE/CommonExtensions/Microsoft/TestWindow:/mnt/c/Program Files/Microsoft Visual Studio/2022/Professional/Common7/IDE/CommonExtensions/Microsoft/TeamFoundation/Team Explorer:/mnt/c/Program Files/Microsoft Visual Studio/2022/Professional/MSBuild/Current/bin/Roslyn:/mnt/c/Program Files/Microsoft Visual Studio/2022/Professional/Team Tools/Performance Tools:/mnt/c/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft Visual Studio/Shared/Common/VSPerfCollectionTools/vs2019/:/mnt/c/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft SDKs/Windows/v10.0A/bin/NETFX 4.8 Tools/:/mnt/c/Program Files/Microsoft Visual Studio/2022/Professional/Common7/IDE/CommonExtensions/Microsoft/FSharp/Tools:/mnt/c/Program Files (x86)/Windows Kits/10/bin/10.0.22621.0/x86:/mnt/c/Program Files (x86)/Windows Kits/10/bin/x86:/mnt/c/Program Files/Microsoft Visual Studio/2022/Professional/MSBuild/Current/Bin/amd64:/mnt/c/Windows/Microsoft.NET/Framework/v4.0.30319:/mnt/c/Program Files/Microsoft Visual Studio/2022/Professional/Common7/IDE/:/mnt/c/Program Files/Microsoft Visual Studio/2022/Professional/Common7/Tools/:/mnt/c/Python310/Scripts/:/mnt/c/Python310/:/mnt/c/Python39/Scripts/:/mnt/c/Python39/:/mnt/c/Program Files/NVIDIA GPU Computing Toolkit/CUDA/v11.8/bin:/mnt/c/Program Files/NVIDIA GPU Computing Toolkit/CUDA/v11.8/libnvvp:/mnt/c/Program Files (x86)/Common Files/Oracle/Java/javapath:/mnt/c/Program Files/Microsoft Visual Studio/2022/Professional/Common7/IDE/CommonExtensions/Microsoft/CMake/CMake/bin:/mnt/c/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft Visual Studio/2019/Professional/Common7/IDE/CommonExtensions/Microsoft/CMake/CMake/bin:/mnt/c/Program Files/Microsoft Visual Studio/2022/Professional/MSBuild/Current/Bin:/mnt/c/Python38/Scripts/:/mnt/c/Python38/:/mnt/c/Python27/:/mnt/c/Python27/Scripts:/mnt/c/WINDOWS/system32:/mnt/c/Program Files/Git/usr/bin:/mnt/c/WINDOWS:/mnt/c/WINDOWS/System32/Wbem:/mnt/c/WINDOWS/System32/WindowsPowerShell/v1.0/:/mnt/c/WINDOWS/System32/OpenSSH/:/mnt/c/ProgramData/chocolatey/bin:/mnt/c/Program Files/Git/cmd:/mnt/c/Program Files/dotnet/:/mnt/c/Program Files/Microsoft SQL Server/130/Tools/Binn/:/mnt/c/Program Files/Microsoft VS Code/bin:/mnt/c/Program Files/PuTTY/:/mnt/c/code/cqg/bts/spark/tools:/mnt/c/Program Files/Microsoft VS Code Insiders/bin:/mnt/c/Program Files/Amazon/AWSCLIV2/:/mnt/c/Program Files/TortoiseHg/:/mnt/c/Program Files/LLVM/bin:/mnt/c/Program Files (x86)/Common Files/Intuit/QBPOSSDKRuntime:/mnt/c/Program Files (x86)/Plantronics/Spokes3G/:/mnt/c/code/lurium/quick/tools:/mnt/c/code/lurium/quick/tools/ant/apache-ant-1.9.15/bin:/mnt/c/Program Files (x86)/dotnet/:/mnt/c/Program Files/gevorkyan.org/MicroProfiler/:/mnt/c/Program Files (x86)/HP/HP OCR/DB_Lib/:/mnt/c/Program Files/HP/Common/HPDestPlgIn/:/mnt/c/Program Files (x86)/HP/Common/HPDestPlgIn/:/mnt/c/Program Files/nodejs/:/mnt/c/Program Files/Wasmtime/bin:/mnt/c/Program Files/NVIDIA Corporation/Nsight Compute 2022.3.0/:/mnt/c/Program Files (x86)/NVIDIA Corporation/PhysX/Common:/mnt/c/Users/Kevin/AppData/Local/Microsoft/WindowsApps:/mnt/c/Users/Kevin/.dotnet/tools:/mnt/c/Users/Kevin/AppData/Local/Microsoft/WindowsApps:/mnt/c/Program Files/Java/jdk1.8.0_291/bin:/mnt/c/Users/Kevin/.dotnet/tools:/mnt/c/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft Visual Studio/2019/Professional/VC/Tools/MSVC/14.29.30133/bin/Hostx86/x64:/mnt/c/program files (x86)/microsoft visual studio/2017/professional/common7/ide/extensions/microprofiler:/mnt/c/Program Files/HP/Common/HPDestPlgIn/:/mnt/c/Program Files (x86)/HP/Common/HPDestPlgIn/:/mnt/c/Users/Kevin/AppData/Roaming/npm:/mnt/c/Program Files/Wasmtime/bin:/mnt/c/Program Files/Microsoft Visual Studio/2022/Professional/VC/Tools/Llvm/bin:/mnt/c/Program Files/Microsoft Visual Studio/2022/Professional/Common7/IDE/CommonExtensions/Microsoft/CMake/CMake/bin:/mnt/c/Program Files/Microsoft Visual Studio/2022/Professional/Common7/IDE/CommonExtensions/Microsoft/CMake/Ninja:/mnt/c/Program Files/Microsoft Visual Studio/2022/Professional/Common7/IDE/VC/Linux/bin/ConnectionManagerExe:/snap/bin:/home/darby/.dotnet/tools'
Container: None
[1793 ms] Initializing configuration support...
[1794 ms] Internal initialization of dev container support package...
[3372 ms] Start: Run in Host: docker version --format {{json .}}
[3391 ms] {"Client":{"Platform":{"Name":"Docker Engine - Community"},"Version":"26.1.2","ApiVersion":"1.45","DefaultAPIVersion":"1.45","GitCommit":"211e74b","GoVersion":"go1.21.10","Os":"linux","Arch":"amd64","BuildTime":"Wed May 8 13:59:58 2024","Context":"default"},"Server":{"Platform":{"Name":"Docker Engine - Community"},"Components":[{"Name":"Engine","Version":"26.1.2","Details":{"ApiVersion":"1.45","Arch":"amd64","BuildTime":"Wed May 8 13:59:58 2024","Experimental":"false","GitCommit":"ef1912d","GoVersion":"go1.21.10","KernelVersion":"5.15.146.1-microsoft-standard-WSL2","MinAPIVersion":"1.24","Os":"linux"}},{"Name":"containerd","Version":"1.6.31","Details":{"GitCommit":"e377cd56a71523140ca6ae87e30244719194a521"}},{"Name":"runc","Version":"1.1.12","Details":{"GitCommit":"v1.1.12-0-g51d5e94"}},{"Name":"docker-init","Version":"0.19.0","Details":{"GitCommit":"de40ad0"}}],"Version":"26.1.2","ApiVersion":"1.45","MinAPIVersion":"1.24","GitCommit":"ef1912d","GoVersion":"go1.21.10","Os":"linux","Arch":"amd64","KernelVersion":"5.15.146.1-microsoft-standard-WSL2","BuildTime":"2024-05-08T13:59:58.000000000+00:00"}}
[3394 ms] Start: Run in Host: wslpath -w c:/code/cqg/bts/spark_sdk_sample
[3617 ms] Command failed: ls -a c:/code/cqg/bts/spark_sdk_sample
[3617 ms] ls: cannot access 'c:/code/cqg/bts/spark_sdk_sample': No such file or directory
[3617 ms] Exit code 2

[kdarby-cqg]

Hi @chrmarti do you need any other info here?

Thanks!

[chrmarti]

@kdarby-cqg Could you share your devcontainer.json and user settings JSON? Are you starting from a local window open on c:\code\cqg\bts\spark_sdk_sample?