Can't start the vso shell. I get "bash: --: invalid option"

[BobSchnatt]

Can't start the vso shell. I get "bash: --: invalid option". (It manifested as an inability to even open Black Box at all. The terminal would open, that error would appear briefly, and then the window would close.)

I did various things to fix this (including running reset-vso, running vso pico-init --force, installing a new terminal program, etc, but nothing has stuck permanently. After these attempts, I now have to type "vso shell" to even try to get into it, but I still get that error (this time, the terminal window stays open).

Any help would be appreciated! By the way, I made NO CHANGES that would cause this (in fact, no changes at all in the past couple of weeks, except for updating flatpaks or running 'sudo apt update' in the main vso shell prior to this breaking).

I need this to work. Thanks!

[taukakao]

This is sadly caused by the latest version of util-linux, so upgrading the subsystem will currently consistently break it.

Resetting it and running:
sudo apt-mark hold util-linux

Should be a sensible workaround for now. Once a new version comes out, the hold mark can be removed.
Edit: This doesn't seem to work. I'm guessing the step in distrobox that installs required packages upgrades util-linux. This means, that broken systems will probably stay broken until a fixed version is released. It's likely that broken subsystems can be fixed easily once this is released.

util-linux is aware of the problem and will revert it in the next release:
util-linux/util-linux#4185

[BobSchnatt]

Thanks for the update. You guys are the best ;)