solana-test-validator Unable to connect to validator: Client error: test-ledger/admin.rpc does not exist

Hi, I’m running an Ubuntu 18.04 WSL2 machine under Windows 10.

When running the solana-test-validator line I got the following messages

Ledger location: test-ledger
Log: test-ledger/validator.log
Unable to connect to validator: Client error: test-ledger/admin.rpc does not exist

I tried with the 1.7.0 version and the LTS solana-cli 1.6.22 (src:45e3cd37; feat:3316993441)

Any clues? thanks!

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Meachocommented, Feb 28, 2022

I’m having this very same issue, below is a supporting file.

The test-ledger folder is created at runtime by the solana-test-validator command, so even thinking of getting the file (that’s if I find a sample anywhere) externally wouldn’t work…

I’m stuck.

I ran into this issue as well initially. I found out that solana-test-validator has to be run from the route directory. so enter cd ~/ then enter solana-test-validator

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Coloradetecommented, Aug 30, 2021

I did reinstall everything to make sure nothing get messed up (even the virtual machine) but maybe you can try without doing that first.

imagen

See the /mnt/c/Users/… ? that means that you are on a mounted windows image inside your WSL Ubuntu (or whatever distro you installed) machine. you should do command cd … until you are out of the mnt directory and then change to home/<USER_NAME_YOU_CHOOSE>. that will take you out of the windows mounted system to the actual linux WSL, and then working from there everything should be fine. Take into account that everytime you open a new bash it will open by default on the mnt system, so you need to change it.