Arch.exe not opening.

[TheAwesomeGuy47]

Describe the issue Just extracted the Arch.zip folder, and tried opening Arch.exe, however it opens and closes immediately.

To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior: Download latest release of ArchWSL. Extract Arch.zip and run Arch.exe.

Expected behavior ArchWSL installer to open.

Enviroment:

• Windows build number: 10.0.19043.1586
• Security Software: AVG Antivirus Free, Malwarebytes Free
• WSL version 1/2: 2
• ArchWSL version: 22.3.18.0
• ArchWSL Installer type zip/appx/other clean/update: zip
• Launcher version: 22020900

[rffontenelle]

If you run Arch.exe from a command-line interface (Command Prompt, PowerShell, Windows Terminal, etc.), can you tell if any message presented to you?

[JayBeavers]

Here is my experience using Arch installed via Scoop on Win11:

PS C:\Users\Jay\scoop\apps\archwsl\current> .\Arch.exe
Using: rootfs.tar.gz
Installing...
ERR: The system cannot find the file specified.
HRESULT: 0x80070002
Press enter to exit...

PS C:\Users\Jay\scoop\apps\archwsl\current> dir


    Directory: C:\Users\Jay\scoop\apps\archwsl\current


Mode                 LastWriteTime         Length Name
----                 -------------         ------ ----
d-r--l         5/31/2022   6:09 AM                data
-a----          2/8/2022   5:43 PM        5837824 Arch.exe
-a----         5/31/2022   6:09 AM             60 install.json
-a----         5/31/2022   6:08 AM           2270 manifest.json

[JayBeavers]

In my case it was because I didn't have the wsl2 kernel update applied. After applying this and uninstall/reinstall, worked fine.

[Quorsor]

Same thing happens to me. First install of mine worked fine but did some things and GLIBC problem happened so I tried reinstalling to fix and now I can't open Arch on Terminal or Exe.