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I'm on Windows 10 Pro 10.0.21337 (windows insider program) and installed WSL with Ubuntu and Windows Terminal. After a firmware update the ubuntu bash wouldn't start anymore. In a cmd.exe the response was:

The operation timed out because a response was not received from the virtual machine or container.

I found this message in a few pages on the www but they were mostly related to docker containers.

user829755
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A faster solution than a full PC restart is to run:

wsl --shutdown

...which will restart just the WSL service.

Jan Pokorný
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This question is a bit different in terms of the symptoms but its solution solved this problem: A full reboot of Windows10, by opening Windows > Start Menu > Power > Restart while holding the shift key.

user829755
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After having failed trying wsl --install and wsl --install -d ubuntu, I got the list of available distro with wsl --list --online and finally used wsl --install -d Ubuntu notice Ubuntu is Capitalized and this worked.

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I was able to solve the issue by performing the following steps:

  1. Uninstall WSL2

  2. Enable Virtual Machine Platform:

    Open PowerShell as Administrator and run:
    dism.exe /online /enable-feature /featurename:VirtualMachinePlatform /all /norestart

  3. Enable Hyper-V:

    • Go to Windows settings and search for Turn windows feature on / off
    • Check/select Windows Hypervisor Platform and Windows Machine Platform

  4. Restart the machine to implement the changes.

  5. Download the following Linux kernel update package and install

https://wslstorestorage.blob.core.windows.net/wslblob/wsl_update_x64.msi

rahul13579
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