Docker Desktop: the service cannot be started

deploying WSL2 distributions
ensuring main distro is deployed: deploying “docker-desktop”: importing WSL distro “The service cannot be started, either because it is disabled or because it has no enabled devices associated with it. \r\nError code: Wsl/0x80070422\r\n” output=“docker-desktop”: exit code: 4294967295: running WSL command wsl.exe C:\Windows\System32\wsl.exe --import docker-desktop \AppData\Local\Docker\wsl\main C:\Program Files\Docker\Docker\resources\wsl\wsl-bootstrap.tar --version 2: The service cannot be started, either because it is disabled or because it has no enabled devices associated with it.
Error code: Wsl/0x80070422
: exit status 0xffffffff
checking if isocache exists: CreateFile \wsl$\docker-desktop-data\isocache: The network name cannot be found.

I am not sure why you choose to post this in an 5 year old unanswered topic about something not directly related to your situation, but I split your post from the other topic and created a new topic.

Make sure wsl works on your machine. You can test it by running the command wsl in a terminal (powershell or command should be fine).

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