WSL hangs after restarting "Host Network Service"

[Oppfinnaren]

Version

Windows: 10.0.19042.2486

WSL Version

• WSL 2
• WSL 1

Kernel Version

5.15.79.1

Distro Version

No response

Other Software

No response

Repro Steps

wsl --shutdown
Restart-Service -name hns
wsl

Expected Behavior

wsl should start

Actual Behavior

Get this following message:
The remote procedure call failed and did not execute.
Error code: Wsl/Service/CreateInstance/CreateVm/ConfigureNetworking/0x800706bf

Only working solution i've found to make wsl work again is to restart computer.

Diagnostic Logs

No response

[Biswa96]

Why did you run Restart-Service -name hns ? If you run Restart-Service -name lxssmanager did it solve the issue?

[Oppfinnaren]

Why did you run Restart-Service -name hns ? If you run Restart-Service -name lxssmanager did it solve the issue?

I had some other error message in wsl which i thought could be solved by restarting all services. And then i found out that restarting this service crashed wsl completly. Running Restart-Service -name lxssmanager doesn't solve this issue.

[Oppfinnaren]

Also worth mentioning that i've been able to reproduce this on multiple computers.

[Biswa96]

I had some other error message in wsl which i thought could be solved by restarting all services.

You are going into XY problem. Report the actual issue rather than your attempted workaround.

[zcobol]

@Oppfinnaren how do you restart the service? It has dependencies and needs the Force flag set to stop it, so maybe restarting the service is not a wise idea.

[benhillis]

Restarting the HNS service with the force flag is going to kill other things. I would not suggest doing this.