Better error messages and known exit codes for wsl.exe

[vadimkantorov]

wsl.exe prints some error numbers and returns some error return codes which get printed in Terminal

It would be nice to have text explanations printed in Terminal instead of Wsl/Service/0xd00002fe and somehow let Terminal recognize exit-codes such as 0xffffffff and have it print some reason corresponding to this exit-code.

Original discussion:

• [feature request] Add extra information for known error codes from WSL terminal#12410 (comment)

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Download and execute collect-wsl-logs.ps1 in an administrative powershell prompt:

Invoke-WebRequest -UseBasicParsing "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/microsoft/WSL/master/diagnostics/collect-wsl-logs.ps1" -OutFile collect-wsl-logs.ps1
Set-ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Scope Process -Force
.\collect-wsl-logs.ps1

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[vadimkantorov]

/feature

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Found '/feature', adding tag 'feature'