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Authorization failure in WSL while fetching Helm chart from ghcr.io#

Description of the Issue#

When using WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linxu) and following the Getting Started recipe you might get a failure from the command to instantiate KubeStellar's core Helm chart. The error message is as follows.

Error: failed to authorize: failed to fetch oauth token: unexpected status from GET request to https://ghcr.io/token?scope=repository%3Akubestellar%2Fkubestellar%2Fcore-chart%3Apull&service=ghcr.io: 403 Fobidden

This is Issue 2544.

Root Cause#

Unknown.

Workaround#

Run the Getting Started recipe as root user in Linux. For example, use sudo su - to get a shell as root.