redis – System has not been booted with systemd as init system (PID 1). Cant operate

Instead, use: sudo service redis-server start

I had the same problem, stopping/starting other services from within Ubuntu on WSL. This worked, where systemctl did not.

And one could reasonably wonder, how would you know that the service name was redis-server? You can see them using service --status-all

Instead of using

sudo systemctl start redis

use:

sudo /etc/init.d/redis start

as of right now we do not have systemd in WSL

Or sometime it might be redis-server, like:

>> sudo /etc/init.d/redis-server start
Starting redis-server: redis-server.

Just do a ls, like: ls /etc/init.d

I had this problem running WSL 2

the solution was the command

 $ sudo dockerd

if after that you still have a problem with permission, run the command:

 $ sudo usermod -aG docker your-user