Visual Studio Code not running/working on WSL 2

Question

Somehow when I run code . inside the WSL, it simply doesn't do anything. If I which code it does return the VS Code path on windows, but still nothing happens.

Answer 1

After some research, what really fixed the issue for me was this:

1. Within the WSL terminal, run rm -r ~/.vscode-server to delete the VS Code WSL server.
2. Exit the terminal and from your PowerShell/Cmd, run wsl --shutdown.

Then you can go back to WSL and run code . and it should work normally.