What were you trying to do that didn't work?

I'm trying to use EL9 based distribution in Windows WSL, for development purposes, but systemd has an issue where doing `systemctl status`  is getting an error trying to do dump process list

Windows 10 and Windows 11 are both effected on their versions of WSL

What is the impact of this issue to you?

very small bug but not a direct issue to my workflow

Please provide the package NVR for which the bug is seen:

systemd-252-47.el9

How reproducible is this bug?:

Every time, other distributions have/had this problem see here WSL issue

Can also replicate in Rocky Linux 9

The above Github issue points out this has been fixed in later versions of Systemd, so hopefully it's as simple as back porting the fix.

systemd PR I believe is the fix on github, Pull Request

Steps to reproduce

Requirements
 - Windows with WSL installed (reboot required after install)
 - CPU with virtualization support

1. Install Windows 10/11 system with WSL
2. Get the latest container base, download to C:\temp\, then extract the layer.tar from inside, to c:\temp\
   https://cloud.centos.org/centos/9-stream/x86_64/images/CentOS-Stream-Container-Base-9-latest.x86_64.tar.xz
3. Open a non-administrator command prompt

   > wsl --import CentOSStream9 c:\temp\installdir\ c:\temp\layer.tar --version 2

4. Enter the wsl imported distro, this will error about TranslatePath due to missing package util-linux-core

   > wsl -d CentOSStream9

5. Install required packages in stream9

   # yum install -y util-linux-core systemd

6. Tell WSL to start systemd for this distrobution

   # cat > /etc/wsl.conf << 'EOF'
   [wsl]
   autostop = false
   
   [boot]
   systemd=true
   EOF

7. Exit WSL

   # exit

8. Stop the distrobution

   > wsl --terminate CentOSStream9

9. Start and enter the distrobution

   > wsl -d CentOSStream9

10. Check the status of systemd

    # systemctl status

Expected results

Command to function correctly without the error and return the CGroup information

Actual results

[root@Glacier /]# systemctl status
Failed to dump process list for 'Glacier', ignoring: Input/output error
● Glacier
State: running
Units: 122 loaded (incl. loaded aliases)
Jobs: 0 queued
Failed: 0 units
Since: Tue 2024-10-22 18:19:31 BST; 1min 44s ago
systemd: 252-47.el9
CGroup: /