Microsoft confirms a new Windows 11 issue affecting the Recovery Environment, with an emergency update now rolling out to ...
Ensure you have two WSL 2 instances. Start the second WSL instance (using wsl -d <distribution_name>). Attempt to bind any local port on localhost or 127.0.0.1 (for example, by starting a local web ...
Update 10/17/25: Microsoft fixes the bug using a KIR (Known Issue Rollback) update. More information added to end of story. Microsoft's October Windows 11 updates have broken the "localhost" ...