Updating IC under Debian (WSL2) seems to invalidate the license

[René Görgens]

Hi Scott,

When I updated to 2.3.0.3 on Debian (WSL2) today, I got the “30 days trial” notification and had to re-enter my license key (100 % of activations being in use, this necessitates deactiving the previous allocation). This had happened before but I had not attributed it to the plugin update. I’m still not sure it is related.

Could you perhaps help me to test this properly? I would need to downgrade IC manually and then use the standard update path.

Thanks a lot.

[Scott Wells]

It's unlikely that the IC2 update caused that as nothing has changed in IC2's licensing libs. It's more likely it's due to the virtualization being used by WSL2. The licensing software used by IC2 is very sensitive to hardware configuration such as network interface MAC addresses and such. If WSL is changing virtual hardware characteristics, the underlying "machine" is going to look different to the licensing software and it's going to require a new activation. I don't know if there's a way to have WSL2 use stable hardware config such as MAC addresses, but that's going to be necessary to have the licensing software continue to see the WSL2 VM as the same across sessions.

[René Görgens]

Thanks for the explanation – I’ll be looking how often this occurs

[Scott Wells]

Resolving as it's not an IC issue really. It's more around the stability/volatility of the underlying (virtual) machine's distinct hardware "fingerprint" which can certainly be more fluid on VMs unless configured to use consistent MAC addresses and similar.