I am Nik Butler

Spent all together too long over this error which resolved itself by me ensuring I had a full upgrade of my installed Ubuntu; using the do-release-upgrade tool in the shell.

The Error

$  npx wrangler pages dev .dist --compatibility-date=2025-04-08

 ⛅️ wrangler 4.9.1
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No Functions. Shimming..
No bindings found.

✘ [ERROR] write EPIPE


If you think this is a bug then please create an issue at https://github.com/cloudflare/workers-sdk/issues/new/choose
🪵  Logs were written to "/home/auser/.config/.wrangler/logs/wrangler-2025-04-10_08-28-44_574.log"
╭─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮
│  [b] open a browser, [d] open devtools, [c] clear console, [x] to exit  │
╰─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯
$

The environment pre problem

Windows 11

>wsl --list
Windows Subsystem for Linux Distributions:
Ubuntu (Default)
docker-desktop


$ cat /etc/lsb-release
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=20.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=focal
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 20.04.6 LTS"

$ uname -a
Linux RH20220829001 5.15.167.4-microsoft-standard-WSL2 #1 SMP Tue Nov 5 00:21:55 UTC 2024 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

The Answer

 sudo do-release-upgrade

The environment post solution

# cd /etc/lsb-release
bash: cd: /etc/lsb-release: Not a directory
root@RH20220829001:~# cat /etc/lsb-release
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=22.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=jammy
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS"

# uname -a
Linux RH20220829001 5.15.167.4-microsoft-standard-WSL2 #1 SMP Tue Nov 5 00:21:55 UTC 2024 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux