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Ubuntu on WSL started defaulting to root user

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Yesterday, all was well. This afternoon I restarted my computer after some file downloads from my class bogged down my laptop. Upon restarting and opening Ubuntu, it defaulted to root@<mysystem>:~#. I can su <username> but it then defaults that user to the /root directory. Even under that user, commands like explorer.exe and code . to open VSCode do not work.

I am running Ubuntu on WSL 1


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