Comments on: How to Manage ‘Systemd’ Services and Units Using ‘Systemctl’ in Linux

By: m

Sun, 28 Mar 2021 11:35:35 +0000

In reply to m.

edit :

I’m asking this question, as I’m confused about init & systems. Considering the fact that PIDs are assigned in ascending order, and that init always get the PID 1. am I missing something?

By: m

Sun, 28 Mar 2021 11:27:20 +0000

I’m quoting ‘Notice: systemd is running as parent daemon (PID=1).’ here, I guess the ppid is the one that equals one, and the init service is the one with pid=1, as it’s the first daemon service initiated by the kernel

By: nashi

nashi — Sun, 18 Oct 2020 21:10:46 +0000

In reply to Tanveer Malik. From the error, it seems that the systemd is not the init system. I never used WSL but MS might not be using systems. Can you see systemd in the output of top command?

By: Tanveer Malik

Tanveer Malik — Thu, 08 Oct 2020 12:46:58 +0000

I am just about starting with Ubuntu on Windows 10 – have tried it with WSL 2 and from Ubuntu as well.

I started following your instructions, but couldn’t go beyond this point.

# ps -eaf | grep [s]ystemd

This returned an empty value, and hence am unable to proceed any farther. I have been stuck at this error now for weeks BUT no luck.

I always get this error

The system has not been booted with systemd as an init system (PID 1). Can't operate.
Failed to create bus connection: Host is down `.

I will be very thankful and appreciate a lot if someone here can bail me out of it?
TIA

By: Ravi Saive

Ravi Saive — Mon, 06 Jul 2020 04:59:05 +0000

In reply to Donald Harvey.

@Donald,

Corrected the command in the article…