WSL2 - docker-compose instability issue

16 Feb 2022

This is a placeholder reminder for when the following error is seen in WSL2 when trying to run docker-compose commands:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "docker-compose", line 3, in <module>
  File "compose/cli/main.py", line 81, in main
  File "compose/cli/main.py", line 200, in perform_command
  File "compose/cli/command.py", line 70, in project_from_options
  File "compose/cli/command.py", line 146, in get_project
  File "compose/cli/command.py", line 206, in get_project_name
  File "posixpath.py", line 383, in abspath
FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
[21846] Failed to execute script docker-compose

According to this forum, https://github.com/docker/compose/issues/7899, the issue seems to be an instability with WSL2 and the windows filesystem.

The fix for this is to simply run:

cd .

This seems to kick the mounting of the filesystem back into sync.

Learning by breaking and failing

WSL2 - docker-compose instability issue