wsl.md

Windows Sub-Linux (WSL)

Troubleshoot

Issues with systemctl

There are some errors when using systemctl in WSL2.

The following errors are:

$ sudo systemctl status mysql
# OUTPUT 
Failed to get properties: Connection reset by peer

$ sudo systemctl start mysql
# OUTPUT
Warning! D-Bus connection terminated.
Failed to start mysql.service: Connection reset by peer
See system logs and 'systemctl status mysql.service' for details.

Run the following command to see if snapd is unavailable, if so, then run the second set of commands below:

$ snap version
# OUTPUT
snap    2.55.5+20.04
snapd   unavailable
series  -

$ sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install -yqq daemonize dbus-user-session fontconfig

$ sudo daemonize /usr/bin/unshare --fork --pid --mount-proc /lib/systemd/systemd --system-unit=basic.target

$ exec sudo nsenter -t $(pidof systemd) -a su - $LOGNAME

$ snap version
# OUTPUT
snap    2.56.2
snapd   2.56.2
series  16
ubuntu  20.04
kernel  5.10.102.1-microsoft-standard-WSL2

For more information see the following pages with work arounds:

• Running Snaps on WSL2 (Insiders only for now)
• alyleite / wsl.md gist