Pycharm wsl2 remote debugging: Remote file is mapped to the local path and can't be found

Question

The module in the wsl2 PYTHONPATH cannot be found by remote debugger on pycharm when importing. I made a debug line breakpoint at that import line and then step into the code and a file named opens up and informs me:

Remote file /mnt/c/Users/wilso/Desktop/Korem_lab/git/  is mapped to the local path C:\Users\wilso\Desktop\Korem_lab\git\  and can't be found. 
You can continue debugging, but without the source. 
To fix that you can do one of the following:
Edit settings of path mappingcin remote debug configuration
...

So i go to my path mapping configuration to make sure that the remote and local is linked correctly, but the error doesn't go away. Is this just a bug on the pycharm end? It's very frustrating.

user_8474695 · Answer

Yes, I am afraid this is the case and it has been a longstanding bug. See this issue for example.

Pycharm wsl2 remote debugging: Remote file <remote_file_path> is mapped to the local path <local_file_path> and can't be found

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