Systemd in WSL: Service Lifetime, Idle Shutdown, and the Limits of a Workstation VM
Why enabling systemd in WSL does not guarantee daemon permanence, and how services should actually handle WSL's own lifecycle events.
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Why enabling systemd in WSL does not guarantee daemon permanence, and how services should actually handle WSL's own lifecycle events.
systemctl reports start-limit-hit when systemd's crash-loop protection trips — clearing the rate limit is a distinct step after fixing the real cause.
Diagnosing whether a repeatedly crashing Print Spooler is a corrupted driver, a stuck job, or a security patch conflict, and clearing each correctly.
Why Windows services stopped interacting with the desktop starting with Vista, and what changed in the session architecture to cause that.
How the Service Control Manager starts, stops, and supervises background processes, and how to configure and debug a service directly.