Skip to main content
The 2026 Annual Developer Survey is live— take the Survey today!.

You are not logged in. Your edit will be placed in a queue until it is peer reviewed.

We welcome edits that make the post easier to understand and more valuable for readers. Because community members review edits, please try to make the post substantially better than how you found it, for example, by fixing grammar or adding additional resources and hyperlinks.

5
  • 1
    Did u try sudo shutdown -r now ? Commented Jun 26, 2018 at 11:55
  • 1
    Yes 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. Commented Jun 26, 2018 at 12:07
  • Are 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!) Commented Jun 26, 2018 at 12:10
  • If WSL means 'Windows Subsystem for Linux', yes. I am using it... Commented Jun 26, 2018 at 12:17
  • I'm getting this error on an Ubuntu box after a LTS release upgrade to 18.04. Any idea? Commented Sep 28, 2018 at 23:29