Systemd does not start despite the hack has been carefully applied as described in the instruction

[Volkeee]

Windows - 2004 build 19041.487
Distro - Ubuntu 18.04

After going through all the steps when testing out systemctl is-active dbus it reports the same error, as if I never applied the hack.

Edit: tried rebooting the machine and reinstalling the distro. Even when applying to a fresh distro it does not work. It worked before, but after a reinstallation it just stopped.

[Volkeee]

Along the way of me trying to repair this, my WSL version changed to 1. Changed it back to WSL2 and everything worked out fine.

For future reference - if this does not work, make sure you are running WSL2 and not WSL1 with wsl -l -v command in your powershell