DBus machine ID not initialised

[mdh34]

• Your Windows build number: 10.0.17134.285 & Ubuntu 18.04.

• What you're doing and what's happening: Attempting to run dbus-launch fails.

• What's wrong / what should be happening instead: The DBus machine-id isn't initialised and is left empty, meaning that dbus-launch and associated tools fail with machine ID '' looks like it's the wrong length, should be 32 hex digits.

This can be fixed by running sudo systemd-machine-id-setup but should ideally be set on installation.

[therealkenc]

should ideally be set on installation.

Sadly that ask (as phrased) is tag 'external' because MSFT/WSL does not control Ubuntu userspace or the Store App or the launcher. Alternatively WSL would need to support systemd per #994, which I think (?) might set up the machine id on startup if it is missing (if it doesn't, it could). Or WSL init could do more systemd things per #2530.

[therealkenc]

Closing since there isn't a WSL actionable. You could try asking Canonical to update their launcher and make systemd-machine-id-setup part of install process. More practically, run the command yourself as suggested and grumble under your breath a little when you hit the enter key.