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3 people reported

All time, since Oct 21, including 1 thumbs-up on GitHub.

WSL session terminal won't spawn

“The terminal opens and closes immediately.”

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Integrated terminal fails to spawn for WSL sessions on Windows desktop. The terminal pane opens and closes immediately on WSL-target sessions with "Failed to spawn shell"; the shell path after "File not found:" is empty, while Windows-local sessions work.

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Where
Desktop integrated terminal
Error text
[error] [pty-host] spawn failed: File not found:
Versions
2.1.304 to 2.1.308
Platforms
Windows
How bad
Breaks a normal workflow.

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Original reports2, newest first

  1. Desktop: integrated terminal never opens for WSL-target sessions ("[pty-host] spawn failed: File not found: ", empty path)#105131
  2. Windows desktop: terminal on WSL sessions always fails with "Failed to spawn shell" (bare wsl.exe + System32 working directory)#103907

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