Win-Kex Not Working

[Coolis1362]

I Know It's Only For Kali-Linux But Win-Kex Is not Working

Version Using

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WSL 2.5.7

Expected Behavior

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Start Win-Kex

Actual Behavior

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┌──(tadeo㉿TADEOLAPTOP2)-[~]
└─$ kex
Starting Win-KeX server (Win)
        Win-KeX server (Win) is stopped

Error connecting to the Win-KeX server (Win)
Please try "/usr/bin/kex start" to start the service
If the server fails to start, please try "/usr/bin/kex kill" or restart your WSL 2 session and try again


Starting Win-KeX client (Win)

┌──(tadeo㉿TADEOLAPTOP2)-[~]
└─$

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[Coolis1362]

Aslo I'm Your Biggest Fan Microsoft So Please Fix this Microsoft 🥹

(And Also Kali Linux Devs Please Fix this!)

[OneBlue]

@Coolis1362: Can you share more technical details ? What exactly is causing that service to fail to start ?

Trying to understand if this is caused by WSL, or if it should be tracked from the kali side

[Coolis1362]

Here:

┌──(tadeo㉿TADEOLAPTOP2)-[~]
└─$ kex
Starting Win-KeX server (Win)
        Win-KeX server (Win) is stopped

Error connecting to the Win-KeX server (Win)
Please try "/usr/bin/kex start" to start the service
If the server fails to start, please try "/usr/bin/kex kill" or restart your WSL 2 session and try again


Starting Win-KeX client (Win)

┌──(tadeo㉿TADEOLAPTOP2)-[~]
└─$

[OneBlue]

@Coolis1362: Can you share more details about why exactly the service is failing to start ? We'd need logs explaining what caused this, or an strace if there aren't.

[Coolis1362]

i don't Know @OneBlue ! When I Was Stsrtting It But It Crashed I Tryed Microsft 365 Copliot To Help Me But Did Not!

[OneBlue]

Unfortunately we need a clear failure signal to diagnose this. if you don't have access to those I'd recommend raising this issue with Win-Kex directly, and reopening this one if additional help is needed from the WSL side.

Closing since there's not enough information to root cause the issue.