Windows 10 - The data area passed to a system call is too small (no SQL installed)

Question

When trying to run Ubuntu under WSL, I get the error "The data area passed to a system call is too small". Most fixes involve patching SQL. I do not see any version of SQL installed, running in processes, or in the services. Are there any other fixes available for this error? After searching for a few hours, I'm not able to find a solution.

Answer 1

Hello there,

Simply speaking, this issue occurs due to due to miscommunication between two filter drivers, namely WCNFS (the desktop bridge) and RsFxXXXX.sys driver (filestream system driver). RsFx system driver doesn't honor flags being passed by WCNFS driver appropriately, which causes startup failure of any Centennial application with the aforementioned error.

You can find this article interesting https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/archive/blogs/sql_server_team/centennial-appsdesktop-bridge-sql-server-and-error-the-data-area-passed-to-a-system-call-is-too-small

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/kb4073393-fix-the-data-area-passed-to-a-system-call-is-too-small-error-when-you-start-a-desktop-bridge-application-on-a-sql-server-5ae0994d-023a-d32b-3aad-526500b53993

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