I encountered a problem with the Ubuntu inside Windows Subsystem for Linux. The problem is that
windows C: drive is mounted with root user.
user@hostname:~$ ls -la /mnt/
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4096 Feb 11 09:36 .
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4096 Feb 11 09:36 ..
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4096 Feb 10 14:33 c
This causes later problems when you try to clone repository either with hg or git.
user@hostname:~$ hg clone <somerepo> --debug
[...]
applying clone bundle from <somerepo>.hg
abort: Operation not permitted: '<destination>/.hg/.dirstate-ICQalM~'
Also some other problems exist. If closing Ubuntu and killing the init process in Windows Task
Manager does not fix your problem, you can try using /etc/wsl.conf file. This is availabe since
build 17063. You need to create /etc/wsl.conf file inside your linux in WSL, and add the
default user and group ids for mount.
[automount]
options = "metadata,uid=1000,gid=1000" # in Ubuntu distro, the default user is created with uid=1000,gid=1000
There are also other options available. My /etc/wsl.conf now looks like that:
[automount]
enabled = true
options = metadata,uid=1000,gid=1000,umask=022