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Merge pull request #835 from licanhua/patch-1
Add troubleshooting for Error: 0x1bc
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## Common issues
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### Error: 0x1bc when `wsl --set-default-version 2`
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This may happen when 'Display Language' or 'System Locale' setting is not English.
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wsl --set-default-version 2
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Error: 0x1bc
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For information on key differences with WSL 2 please visit https://aka.ms/wsl2
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THe actual error for `0x1bc` is:
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WSL 2 requires an update to its kernel component. For information please visit https://aka.ms/wsl2kernel
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For more information, please refer to issue [5749](https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/5749)
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### Cannot access WSL files from Windows
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A 9p protocol file server provides the service on the Linux side to allow Windows to access the Linux file system. If you cannot access WSL using `\\wsl$` on Windows, it could be because 9P did not start correctly.
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