symptom

Using a non Ubuntu distribution version of wsl with system d enabled, running a Windows program in wsl reports an error

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❯ code
/mnt/c/Users/mystic/AppData/Local/Programs/Microsoft VS Code/bin/code: 61: /mnt/c/Users/mystic/AppData/Local/Programs/Microsoft VS Code/Code.exe: Exec format error
❯ explorer.exe .
zsh: exec format error: explorer.exe

Solution

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sudo sh -c 'echo :WSLInterop:M::MZ::/init:PF > /usr/lib/binfmt.d/WSLInterop.conf'
sudo systemctl unmask systemd-binfmt.service
sudo systemctl restart systemd-binfmt
sudo systemctl mask systemd-binfmt.service