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I'm on Windows 10 Pro 10.0.21337 (windows insider program) and installed WSL with Ubuntu and Windows Terminal. After a firmware update the ubuntu bash wouldn't start anymore. In a cmd.exe the response was:

The operation timed out because a response was not received from the virtual machine or container.

I found this message in a few pages on the www but they were mostly related to docker containers.

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A faster solution than a full PC restart is to run:

wsl --shutdown

...which will restart just the WSL service.

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    Yes, this works perfectly.
    – Sedat Kapanoglu
    Sep 6, 2021 at 19:07
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    This also solved my timeout issues that appeared after a Windows 11 upgrade.
    – Darren Evans
    Oct 4, 2021 at 13:57
  • This does not work for me.. but I've got a long running process that is using just over a third of the CPU which makes it seem like WSL won't initialize if the system is busy enough.
    – Michael
    Aug 12, 2023 at 21:28
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This question is a bit different in terms of the symptoms but its solution solved this problem: A full reboot of Windows10, by opening Windows > Start Menu > Power > Restart while holding the shift key.

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I was able to solve the issue by performing the following steps:

  1. Uninstall WSL2

  2. Enable Virtual Machine Platform:

    Open PowerShell as Administrator and run:
    dism.exe /online /enable-feature /featurename:VirtualMachinePlatform /all /norestart

  3. Enable Hyper-V:

    • Go to Windows settings and search for Turn windows feature on / off
    • Check/select Windows Hypervisor Platform and Windows Machine Platform

  4. Restart the machine to implement the changes.

  5. Download the following Linux kernel update package and install

https://wslstorestorage.blob.core.windows.net/wslblob/wsl_update_x64.msi

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