WSL Redis encountered System has not been booted with systemd as init system (PID 1). Can't operate
RedisWindows Subsystem-for-LinuxUbuntu 18.04Redis Problem Overview
I'm trying to follow the Redis installation process that was discuss in this article of digital ocean, for in WSL(Windows Sub-System for Linux). The Ubuntu version installed is Ubuntu 18.04.
Everything in redis installation is fine but when I tried to run this sudo systemctl start redis I got this message.
System has not been booted with systemd as init system (PID 1). Can't operate.
Any Idea on what should I do with that?
Redis Solutions
Solution 1 - Redis
Instead, use: sudo service redis-server start
I had the same problem, stopping/starting other services from within Ubuntu on WSL. This worked, where systemctl did not.
And one could reasonably wonder, "how would you know that the service name was 'redis-server'?" You can see them using service --status-all
Solution 2 - Redis
Instead of using
sudo systemctl start redis
use:
sudo /etc/init.d/redis start
as of right now we do not have systemd in WSL
Or sometime it might be redis-server, like:
>> sudo /etc/init.d/redis-server start
Starting redis-server: redis-server.
Just do a ls, like: ls /etc/init.d
Solution 3 - Redis
I had this problem running WSL 2
the solution was the command
$ sudo dockerd
if after that you still have a problem with permission, run the command:
$ sudo usermod -aG docker your-user
Solution 4 - Redis
I was trying to start Docker within ubuntu and WSL.
This worked for me,
sudo service docker start
Solution 5 - Redis
If you are using Docker, you may try an image that has Ubuntu with System D already active with this command:
docker run -d --name redis --privileged -v /sys/fs/cgroup:/sys/fs/cgroup:ro jrei/systemd-ubuntu:18.04
Then you just need to run:
docker exec -it redis /bin/bash
and there you can just install Redis, start it, restart it or whatever you need.
Solution 6 - Redis
Total newbie here - after trying most of the above suggestions, the command that worked for me was sudo service apache2 --full-restart and the web server started up.
Maybe the error came up because I have been following lots of setup instructions without a reboot/restart. I'm working on Ubuntu 20.04 in WSL2 using Apache2 Debian.
Solution 7 - Redis
For WSL2, I had to install cgroupfs-mount, than start the daemon, as described here:
sudo apt-get install cgroupfs-mount
sudo cgroupfs-mount
sudo service docker start
Solution 8 - Redis
This worked for me (using WSL)
sudo /etc/init.d/redis start
(for any other service, check the init.d folder for filenames)
Solution 9 - Redis
use this command for run every service just write name service for example :
for xrdp :
sudo /etc/init.d/xrdp start
for redis :
sudo /etc/init.d/redis start
(for any other service, check the init.d folder for filenames)