OT Advice - Ubuntu 24.04 on wsl2

Hi all,

this post isn’t Budgie-related (at least not strictly) but I want to share my experience with you, maybe someone comes across something similar.

I run a windows machine too, totally dedicated to MS Teams that I’m obligated to run at work (I don’t like Teams webapp … I don’t like Teams at all, but this is another thing). I don’t like Outlook too, so I’ve installed wsl2 and Ubuntu on it and Evolution on Ubuntu too.
Until 22.04 everything was OK, updating to Noble (WSL 2.3.26.0, kernel 5.15.167.4-1, WSLg 1.0.65), Evolution EWS stopped working with

Failed to obtain access token from address “https://login.microsoftonline.com/[MSTenant_here]/oauth2/v2.0/token”: Object does not exist at path “/org/freedesktop/secrets/collection/login”

error; more, url was set to https://local-none

Working on this issue (for a whole week!!!), mostly because a personal IMAP address didn’t keep password saved and there wasn’t keyring unlock pw request, I’ve suspected a keyring-related problem so I’ve installed Seahorse too and running it I met a locked keyring issue and no way to unlock it.

Googling on MS GitHub sites, finally I’ve found a workaround: after having disabled systemd in wsl machine:/etc/wsl.conf everything re-started to run.

Nevertheless I’ve filed a bug to MS GitHub because this problem comes only with 5.15.167.4-1 kernel.

Sil

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