System has not been booted with systemd as init system PID 1 Can t operate

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I m trying to follow the Redis installation process as discuss in this article of digital ocean  in WSL  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

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You can simply run sudo service docker start which will start running your docker server  You can check if you have the docker server by running service --status-all  you should see docker listed

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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

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I was trying to start Docker within ubuntu and WSL  This worked for me  sudo service docker start

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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

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This worked for me  using WSL  sudo  etc init d redis start   for any other service  check the init d folder for filenames

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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

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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

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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

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I encountered the same problem  ps --no-headers -o comm 1 After running this in the terminal  the system will return either systemd or init if it returns  init   then the  systemctl  command won t work for your system

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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

[redis] System has not been booted with systemd as init system (PID 1). Can't operate

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