Not at home after login

harper

8/25/24, 7:16 AM

I have installed Ubuntu 22.04 in WSL2. I expect that the bash shall be started in the home directory that I find in /etc/passwd as

harper:x.1000:1000:,,,,:/home/harper:/bin/bash

But after starting wsl -d Ubuntu-22.04 the bash is somewhere in the Windows tree: /mnt/c/WINDOWS/system32. I only need to issue the cd command to get into home. And I could add this in a last line of ~/.bashrc. I already checked that this file is executed while starting bash.

But why do I see this strange behavior that the home directory is not the current directory?

Edit: I have also found a workaround. I can start wsl -d Ubuntu-22.04 --cd ~. But this doesn't explain, why it's necessary.

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vanadium

8/25/24, 8:37 AM

That is likely related to the tool `wsl`, not to the Ubuntu system. You indeed can adjust the command line of the tool to land in the directory you want as you found out.

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