WSL network was not found

[soroshsabz]

Windows Version

Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.22621.1702]

WSL Version

WSL version: 1.2.5.0

Are you using WSL 1 or WSL 2?

• WSL 2
• WSL 1

Kernel Version

No response

Distro Version

Ubuntu 22.04

Other Software

No response

Repro Steps

After I run wsl, I see below error

Error code: Wsl/Service/CreateInstance/CreateVm/ConfigureNetworking/0x803b0001
The network was not found.

Expected Behavior

Run WSL Correctly

Actual Behavior

Error code: Wsl/Service/CreateInstance/CreateVm/ConfigureNetworking/0x803b0001
The network was not found.

Diagnostic Logs

No response

[soroshsabz]

related to https://superuser.com/q/1783419/167405

[benhillis]

/logs

[soroshsabz]

After I remove WSL vEthernet on all Hyper-V virtual machine, this error has gone, but I get another error, that my WSL does not connect to internet

What is your info needed to provide some help to me?

thanks

[soroshsabz]

@benhillis After restarting my PC, this problem is gone :|

this system is not reliable enough

[Raven-Singularity]

I had a similar incident after installing then uninstalling VMware, which left my Hyper-V Extensible Virtual Switch entirely broken. I was unable to load WSL2 for about 10 days due to the missing virtual network adapter.

What fixed it for me was removing this registry key which VMware left behind:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\{3d09c1ca-2bcc-40b7-b9bb-3f3ec143a87b}

After removing this registry key manually, then clicking Network Reset on the Networking Control Panel page, my system came back up with fully working networking, including my WSL2 launching again!

Note: Network Reset made me wait 5 minutes before it rebooted the system.

Hope it helps other people who are stuck!

Other error codes and error messages I experienced:

Windows is still setting up class configuration for this device. (Code 56)
0x80071779
0x80041002