WSL GUI : Error at file_io_posix.cc

Question

Hello,

I installed wsl and wslg.
Running distro : kali-linux.

I'm facing issues when running GUI applications in kali-linux.

I installed chrome from this official Microsoft link : https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/tutorials/gui-apps

But it throws me this error below :

   [0114/222316.198616:ERROR:file_io_posix.cc(144)] open /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_cur_freq: No such file or directory (2)  
   [0114/222316.198656:ERROR:file_io_posix.cc(144)] open /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_max_freq: No such file or directory (2)  
   Trace/breakpoint trap  

I also installed brave-browser but that also throws a similar error :

   [0114/222829.587397:ERROR:file_io_posix.cc(144)] open /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_cur_freq: No such file or directory (2)  
   [0114/222829.587443:ERROR:file_io_posix.cc(144)] open /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_max_freq: No such file or directory (2)  
   /usr/bin/brave-browser: line 48:   130 Trace/breakpoint trap   "$HERE/brave" "$@"  

I'm not sure on what to do now. Please help.

The reason why I need GUI apps in linux distro is because when I setup a VPN connection using linux I cannot connect to the tunnel using native windows browser. So my turnaround was using GUI apps on linux. If there's any other alternative to this, then please suggest. Thanks

Answer 1

Thanks for the reply @Frederic Cand

However, this didn't not work for me either. Now when I do a google-chrome or firefox-esr in terminal I get the same error but after 20-30 seconds of idle time. I did install vcxsrv like you'd mentioned.

The reason why I run vpn under wsl is because I need to use Linux tools to hit the vpn connection. If I make the vpn connection using windows then I won't be able to hit it using any Linux distro shell but only powershell.

Haha, the trouble is still here but I don't think the Microsoft peeps are helping. At this point I don't really know what to do. I've also created an issue at the Git Repo but no luck there as well. I thought I was the only one going through this issue because I did something wrong but turns out a lot of people have this and I really wish Microsoft does something to help us out.

Let's see where this is going.

Answer 2

Helllo @Dave Patrick , I have also created an issue at the Github Repo you had pointed but I don't have any answers yet.

Please help. The issue still exists.

Thank you.