WSL distro corrupted

[maicol07]

Hi,
I've successfully shrinked my WSL image but when I enter Ubuntu it seems corrupted: all files in /etc/ are binaries and therefore the OS can't use them. How can I fix this or do I have to reinstall all?
Thanks

[thusinh1969]

Do you know why ? I am about to run one... !

[maicol07]

I've tried on another PC with other distros and it worked fine. Also, I've retried on the same PC with other Ubuntu distros, and it also worked fine. The only difference between the first run and the other ones is that the temp folder was set to a folder in an external drive (instead it worked when using a different disk partition). Probably this was the issue. I suggest you to export the distro before shrinking the image, in case something goes wrong.

[bezaisingh]

I used the temp folder on the D drive as the C drive didn't have enough space, and it shrunk the virtual drive from 48GB to 28GB but then corrupted the virtual drive "ext4.vhdx". Also, I want to highlight that my Ubuntu-20.04 was already moved to the D drive, the directory was D:\WpSystem\S-1-5-21-1570390811-2750708149-32824043-1001\AppData\Local\Packages\CanonicalGroupLimited.Ubuntu20.04LTS_79rhkp1fndgsc\LocalState\ext4.vhdx.

And now when I try to launch wsl it says

Failed to attach disk 'C:\Users\bijay\AppData\Local\Packages\CanonicalGroupLimited.Ubuntu20.04LTS_79rhkp1fndgsc\LocalState\ext4.vhdx' to WSL2: The APPX file can not be accessed because it is not encrypted as expected.
Error code: Wsl/Service/CreateInstance/MountVhd/0x80070199