Starting Bash results in Error: 0x80070005

[joakime]

• Your Windows build number: (Type ver at a Windows Command Prompt)

Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.15063]

• What you're doing and what's happening: (Copy&paste specific commands and their output, or include screen shots)

Starting Bash

• What's wrong / what should be happening instead:

Bash should start without issues

• Strace of the failing command, if applicable: (If <cmd> is failing, then run strace -o strace.txt -ff <cmd>, and post the strace.txt output here)

Strace not available.

Per the instructions on Issue #473 I'm submitting the traces as requested.
wsl-traces.zip

I did perform an lxrun /uninstall /full /y today to eliminate my 14.04 system and upgrade to 16.04
Once I had a successful lxrun /install I was able to run bash once.

I then unpacked my home directory backup.
My home directory backup has replacements for ...

.ssh/    -> (symlink to /mnt/c/Users/joakim/.ssh)
.vim/    -> (symlink to /mnt/c/Users/joakim/vimfiles)
.m2/     -> (symlink to /mnt/c/Users/joakim/.m2)
.bashrc
.bash_aliases
.bash_logout
.gitconfig
.gvimrc
.profile
.vim
.vimrc
java/    -> (symlink to /mnt/c/Users/joakim/java/wsl)

After the unpack (in bash on the first run) i exited bash and attempted to restart, when this error occurred.

[joakime]

I suspect something I did in my home directory caused this, is there a way to start bash in a different home directory?

[sunjoong]

@joakime - In windows PowerShell, "lxrun /setdefaultuser root".

Once I had a successful lxrun /install I was able to run bash once.

This means you had installed WSL successfully and maden default user, might be joakim?, I think. When you "lxrun /install /y", lxrun does not make default user, but only make root user. If you "lxrun /install", lxrun makes root user and normal user like joakim; So, you have two user accounts, root and joakim. The command "lxrun /setdefaultuser root" switch default user to root; of course, you can switch to anoter user like "lxrun /setdefaultuser joakim".

After the unpack (in bash on the first run) i exited bash and attempted to restart, when this error occurred.

After launching bash with root user, you could check why this happens, I think.

[benhillis]

After looking at the trace I'm fairly certain this is a duplicate of #651.