On a regular Linux, we would use this command to restart the computer:
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sudo shutdown -r now |
When we try that in WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux), we end up with this error message:
System has not been booted with systemd as init system (PID 1). Can’t operate.
Failed to connect to bus: Host is down
Failed to talk to init daemon: Host is down
To restart WSL without restarting our whole computer, we need to exit WSL with the exit command and then run wsl with the shutdown option:
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wsl --shutdown |
This stops our WSL instance. To get the same effect as a reboot, we can run wsl again, this time without an additional parameter:
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wsl |
To check that the reboot worked, we can ask for the uptime:
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uptime -p |
up 0 minutes
This little option is especially useful when you upgrade the Linux distribution inside WSL, and you are at the last step that requires a reboot.