W11 arm64 WSL errors

Question

I have downloaded a tar file of Oracle Linux 8

container-registry.oracle.com_os_oraclelinux_8_arm64.tar

and imported into WSL

wsl --import "OracleLinux" C:\wsl\oracle_linux .\container-registry.oracle.com_os_oraclelinux_8_arm64.tar

wsl --import "OracleLinux" C:\wsl\oracle_linux .\container-registry.oracle.com_os_oraclelinux_8_arm64.tar

when trying to start it fails

wsl -d OracleLinux

<3>WSL (9 - Relay) ERROR: CreateProcessParseCommon:863: Failed to translate C:\Users\codrut

<3>WSL (9 - Relay) ERROR: CreateProcessParseCommon:909: getpwuid(0) failed 2

<3>WSL (9 - Relay) ERROR: UtilTranslatePathList:2878: Failed to translate C:\WINDOWS\system32

<3>WSL (9 - Relay) ERROR: UtilTranslatePathList:2878: Failed to translate C:\WINDOWS

<3>WSL (9 - Relay) ERROR: UtilTranslatePathList:2878: Failed to translate C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem

<3>WSL (9 - Relay) ERROR: UtilTranslatePathList:2878: Failed to translate C:\WINDOWS\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\

<3>WSL (9 - Relay) ERROR: UtilTranslatePathList:2878: Failed to translate C:\WINDOWS\System32\OpenSSH\

<3>WSL (9 - Relay) ERROR: UtilTranslatePathList:2878: Failed to translate C:\Program Files\Google\Google Apps Sync\

<3>WSL (9 - Relay) ERROR: UtilTranslatePathList:2878: Failed to translate C:\Users\codrut\python

<3>WSL (9 - Relay) ERROR: UtilTranslatePathList:2878: Failed to translate C:\Users\codrut\python\Scripts

<3>WSL (9 - Relay) ERROR: UtilTranslatePathList:2878: Failed to translate C:\Users\codrut\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps

Processing fstab with mount -a failed.

Failed to mount C:, see dmesg for more details.

<3>WSL (9 - Relay) ERROR: operator():420: getpwuid(0) failed 2

<3>WSL (9 - Relay) ERROR: CreateProcessCommon:640: execvpe(/bin/sh) failed: No such file or directory This is Windows 11 Pro arm64 running on Surface Pro 11 with a Snapdragon Elite X CPU.

Answer 1

Nevermind, the tar file was wrong.