How to solve 'System has not been booted with systemd as init system (PID 1).'? I can't reboot Ubuntu
Solution 1
I have/had a similar problem when trying to install Docker using Docker's instructions to install on Linux (https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-and-use-docker-on-ubuntu-18-04) or (https://docs.docker.com/install/linux/docker-ce/ubuntu/#install-docker-ce-1).
The solution is to install Docker using the Windows installation process then linking your Windows Subsystem for Linux to the Windows Docker. As I understand, the reason for the failure is lack of access from the Windows Subsystem to files needed by docker, which are ultimately on Windows. The solution circumvents this. Hope this helps!
https://blog.jayway.com/2017/04/19/running-docker-on-bash-on-windows/
Solution 2
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 systemd-ubuntu --privileged -v /sys/fs/cgroup:/sys/fs/cgroup:ro jrei/systemd-ubuntu
Then you just need to run:
docker exec -it systemd-ubuntu /bin/bash
and there you can just install, start and restart any service you need.
Solution 3
I had the same problem, accidentally removed the /bin/bash file. After that my server would not boot.
I mounted an old backup and copied the bash file from the mounted drive. Once dismounted, everything was fine except the mounted drive still appeared when I ran df
.
I force dismounted the previously mounted back up and got stuck with the same problem.
Try doing the following:
bash --login
exec bash
bash --login; exit
Here is my source:
https://superuser.com/questions/353723/how-do-i-reload-the-terminal-in-ubuntu
In addition, I also installed aptitude
and ran aptitude reinstall bash
.
I cannot exactly say what fixed it but the problem is resolved and I can ssh as usual.
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Updated on September 18, 2022Comments
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user844006 almost 2 years
I've got a problem during setup of apache. I am using Ubuntu version 18.04. I don't know what made this problem appeared...
I will just list all my commands.
apt-get update apt-get upgrade
I saw an error after I tried to upgrade:
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
To solve it or a solution I used some commands below:
vi usr/sbin/policy-rc.d
contents:
#!bin/sh exit 101 chmod +x /usr/sbin/policy-rc.d dpkg-divert --local --rename --add /sbin/initctl ln -s /bin/true /sbin/initctl
These are from this documentation
apt-get install apache2 apt-get install php apt-get install libapache2-mod-php apt-get install php-mbstring apt-get install php-gd apt-get install php-curl php-xml apt-get install mariadb-server /usr/bin/mysql_secure_installation use mysql; update user set plugin='' where User='root'; flush privileges; exit; apt-get install php-mysql adduser a2ensite
I downloaded phpmyadmin.
After all these commands I wanted to reboot Ubuntu but it didn't work. After the command
reboot
I saw a message like this:System has not been booted with systemd as init system (PID 1). Can't operate. Failed to talk to init daemon.
and for
reboot -f
:Rebooting. Failed to reboot: Invalid argument
I am complete newbie... I have no idea what I should do
I just reinstalled Ubuntu and I got the same messages mentioned above, though I did nothing but just tried
reboot
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Denny John about 6 yearsDid u try sudo shutdown -r now ?
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user844006 about 6 yearsYes I did It does not work either. I got same message : System has not been booted with systemd as init system (PID 1). Can't operate. Failed to talk to init daemon.
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Melebius about 6 yearsAre you using WSL? I am not sure whether WSL allows it. (Interestingly I can issue
reboot
in Babun on my Windows 7 and it does reboot Windows!) -
user844006 about 6 yearsIf WSL means 'Windows Subsystem for Linux', yes. I am using it...
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Vishnu Kumar over 5 yearsI'm getting this error on an Ubuntu box after a LTS release upgrade to 18.04. Any idea?
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soMuchToLearnAndShare almost 4 yearsyour comment enlightend me :), and then i carefully read this whole thread, found stackoverflow.com/a/61902994/4582240 this also helped me. I would not have followed that if i was not sure the key issue was the missing 'docker desktop'