Opening Bash as Administrator returns error 0x80070005

[techracer]

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  I used to be able to open the bash shell as administrator, now i cannot

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[techracer]

I've tried that, several times actually

[voidsteed]

doesn't work, install and uninstall so many times

[ghost]

try installing in windows store instead bash.exe or /lxrun

[voidsteed]

I tried from windows store, doesn't either.

error message:

Installing, this may take a few minutes...
Installation Failed!
Error: 0x80070005
Press any key to continue...

[phelix001]

Error: 0x80070005 When I click on Ubuntu icon I get this error. No recent updates to uninstall. Just started as of yesterday. Was originally installed from WIndows Store. Windows Debian works.

Yesterday, I did mistakenly start running a windows command that would hide folders in my Ubuntu filesystem. I hit cancel.

[ghost]

Try Repair on "Add Or Remove Programs" then click advanced options. but this methods only works in ubuntu from microsoft store

[ghost]

Same issue...hitting Repair (and Reset) from "Add/Remove Programs" did nothing.

[phelix001]

I ended up having to completely uninstall and reinstall. Lost everything.

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[ghost]

Please help fix this!

[raghav710]

I am facing this issue as well. Is there any timeline for a fix?

[onomatopellan]

I had the exactly opposite problem. Error 0x80070005 appeared unless I launched the distro in Elevated shell (open as Admin). It was a permissions issue. This is what I did to fix it.

• open elevated cmd.exe.
• cd to the distro executable location folder. (in my case cd G:\WSL\Alpine)
• type icacls.exe . /grant "%username%:(OI)(CI)(F)"
  After that I can install the distro without launching it as Admin.

So if you have problems with opening bash as Admin you should first locate the distro executable and update the permissions of that folder for Administrators user.
icacls.exe . /grant "Administrators:(OI)(CI)(F)"

[voidsteed]

Hi all, I resolved my problem with this solution: #3020 (comment)

[dominik-ba]

I have the same issue and #3020 did not help. I don't have such a file in CodeIntegrity

[melanie-idl]

Having the same issue after finding myself in a reboot loop after installing Node.

Nothing but Error 0x80070005 displayed in terminal on startup when it was working before this. Have uninstalled & reinstalled several times from both command line and add & remove route. Have tried #3020 workaround but don't have the file mentioned. Have tried running as admin. Accessing using WSL, Ubuntu & Bash shells all show the same error. Log files are attached. will be emailed.

[melanie-idl]

Okay, I'm up and running again. Ironically I've been working on this for hours but it's fixed 20 minutes after I actually post 😒 I can't say for sure that these are replicable steps but the only things I did between my post and things working again were:

• Turning off my logging so I could bundle my logs to email
• I followed the post that I linked above regarding a reboot loop, which led me down a rabbit hole and I ended up at this issue. Turns out my UAC settings had been changed by this bug earlier today, I returned them to the default.
• Rebooted my PC

This feels much more like a fluke than a solution but hopefully it might help someone else.

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