Pycharm does not update sceleton on python connected with wsl-2 Follow

Hi,

How did you open the project? Using local c:\ path or //wsl$ path? Actually I tried both ways but couldn't reproduce the issue.

Could you try recreating the interpreter, but do not add the interpreter paths manually? PyCharm should populate interpreter paths automatically - does it work?

Thank you for the answer. It has 'magically' fixed itself after couple of days.

I have the same issue but can't fix it.

Tried reinstalling both ubuntu and Pycharm professional 2020.

Tried restarting.

Recreated the interpreter several times.

It works by rolling back to Pycharm professional 2019.3.5 - not a fix, cause the new version is not working properly.

I am also using wsl2 and PyCharm and I have a very similar issue/error message:

failed to run generator3/__main__.py for wsl://UBUNTU2004/home/.../conda/envs/.../bin/python, exit code 1, stderr: ----- Failed to process '_ast' while nothing yet: [Errno 1] Operation not permitted:

"/home/..../conda/envs/..../lib/python3.8/shutil.py", line 305, in copymode chmod_func(dst, stat.S_IMODE(st.st_mode)) PermissionError: [Errno 1] Operation not permitted: '/mnt/c/Users/...../AppData/Local/JetBrains/PyCharm2020.2/python_stubs/-848334156/atexit.py' -----

Sometimes this error raises or the one, the topic opener posted. It seams both are raised due to permission errors.

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same problem for me - need urgent help!

Alexander Ostrikov what PyCharm version do you use?
If it's the latest one (2020.3.2 at the moment), please file an issue to https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issues/PY and attach your idea.log file from Help | Show Log in...

Same here - is there any solution yet?

Hello @Marius Garbowski!

Regrettably, no details were provided for further investigation. Could you please file an issue to https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issues/PY and attach your idea.log file from Help | Show Log in...

I have a workaround for not being able to update skeletons on venv WSL2 interpreters. It's a permissions problem due to the default way that WSL2 mounts the C drive. It doesn't try to map file permissions properly, instead making everything owned by `root`. This is fixable, but has a big caveat - your username in your WSL2 distro **must** match your Windows username. Here are the steps:

In your WSL distro, edit `/etc/wsl.conf` with `sudo vim /etc/wsl.conf`.

You'll have a section at the top that looks like this:

```
[automount]
enabled = true
mountfstab = true
root = /mnt/
options =
```

Simply add `"metadata"` to the end of the `options` line so it looks like this:

```
[automount]
enabled = true
mountfstab = true
root = /mnt/
options = "metadata"
```

From here, exit PyCharm, exit your WSL shell(s) and run this in an administrator `cmd`/`powershell` session: `wsl --shutdown`.

Once that completes, start up your WSL shell and PyCharm again, problem should be fixed.

Matt Waters Brilliant, worked for me!

Thanks Matt Waters, this worked and saved my day!

If you're lost soul from 2022 and probably later here is how I made it work:

1. Uninstalled old Ubuntu
2. Installed Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
3. Created an account with the same name as my user's folder name in C:\Users

For me /etc/wsl.conf was empty and I did not change it. I do not know if all steps are necessary to make it work, but for me they were sufficient.