invoke-rc.d: could not determine current runlevel

[jaoord]

I'm trying to install rabbitmq in Ubuntu 18.04 on Windows 10. After a while, the following error is returned: invoke-rc.d: could not determine current runlevel

/mnt/c/Windows/System32$ sudo apt-get install rabbitmq-server
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following package was automatically installed and is no longer required:
  libfreetype6
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove it.
The following additional packages will be installed:
  erlang-asn1 erlang-base erlang-crypto erlang-eldap erlang-inets erlang-mnesia erlang-os-mon erlang-parsetools erlang-public-key erlang-runtime-tools erlang-snmp erlang-ssl erlang-syntax-tools erlang-tools
  erlang-xmerl libsctp1 socat
Suggested packages:
  erlang erlang-manpages erlang-doc lksctp-tools
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  erlang-asn1 erlang-base erlang-crypto erlang-eldap erlang-inets erlang-mnesia erlang-os-mon erlang-parsetools erlang-public-key erlang-runtime-tools erlang-snmp erlang-ssl erlang-syntax-tools erlang-tools
  erlang-xmerl libsctp1 rabbitmq-server socat
0 upgraded, 18 newly installed, 0 to remove and 61 not upgraded.
Need to get 25.0 MB of archives.
After this operation, 38.0 MB of additional disk space will be used.
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Get:3 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/main amd64 socat amd64 1.7.3.2-2ubuntu2 [342 kB]
Get:4 https://dl.bintray.com/rabbitmq/debian bionic/erlang amd64 erlang-asn1 amd64 1:21.1-1 [754 kB]
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Get:11 https://dl.bintray.com/rabbitmq/debian bionic/erlang amd64 erlang-inets amd64 1:21.1-1 [611 kB]
Get:12 https://dl.bintray.com/rabbitmq/debian bionic/erlang amd64 erlang-snmp amd64 1:21.1-1 [1564 kB]
Get:13 https://dl.bintray.com/rabbitmq/debian bionic/erlang amd64 erlang-os-mon amd64 1:21.1-1 [123 kB]
Get:14 https://dl.bintray.com/rabbitmq/debian bionic/erlang amd64 erlang-parsetools amd64 1:21.1-1 [183 kB]
Get:15 https://dl.bintray.com/rabbitmq/debian bionic/erlang amd64 erlang-syntax-tools amd64 1:21.1-1 [377 kB]
Get:16 https://dl.bintray.com/rabbitmq/debian bionic/erlang amd64 erlang-tools amd64 1:21.1-1 [526 kB]
Get:17 https://dl.bintray.com/rabbitmq/debian bionic/erlang amd64 erlang-xmerl amd64 1:21.1-1 [995 kB]
Get:18 https://dl.bintray.com/rabbitmq/debian bionic/main amd64 rabbitmq-server all 3.7.8-1 [9152 kB]
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Setting up erlang-base (1:21.1-1) ...
Searching for services which depend on erlang and should be started...none found.
Setting up libsctp1:amd64 (1.0.17+dfsg-2) ...
Processing triggers for ureadahead (0.100.0-20) ...
Setting up socat (1.7.3.2-2ubuntu2) ...
Setting up erlang-xmerl (1:21.1-1) ...
Setting up erlang-crypto (1:21.1-1) ...
Setting up erlang-asn1 (1:21.1-1) ...
Setting up erlang-mnesia (1:21.1-1) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.27-3ubuntu1) ...
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Setting up erlang-runtime-tools (1:21.1-1) ...
Setting up erlang-syntax-tools (1:21.1-1) ...
Setting up erlang-parsetools (1:21.1-1) ...
Setting up erlang-public-key (1:21.1-1) ...
Setting up erlang-snmp (1:21.1-1) ...
Setting up erlang-ssl (1:21.1-1) ...
Setting up erlang-inets (1:21.1-1) ...
Setting up erlang-tools (1:21.1-1) ...
Setting up erlang-os-mon (1:21.1-1) ...
Setting up erlang-eldap (1:21.1-1) ...
Setting up rabbitmq-server (3.7.8-1) ...
Adding group `rabbitmq' (GID 116) ...
Done.
Adding system user `rabbitmq' (UID 112) ...
Adding new user `rabbitmq' (UID 112) with group `rabbitmq' ...
Not creating home directory `/var/lib/rabbitmq'.
Created symlink /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/rabbitmq-server.service → /lib/systemd/system/rabbitmq-server.service.
**invoke-rc.d: could not determine current runlevel**
Processing triggers for ureadahead (0.100.0-20) ...
Processing triggers for systemd (237-3ubuntu10.3) ...

I followed the instructions from https://www.rabbitmq.com/install-debian.html

[sirredbeard]

It cannot determine the current runlevel because there is no current runlevel, WSL does not have an init system running like openrc, upstart, or systemd.

It is still possible to launch services, such as apache and MySQL for local development though from terminal. You will see some errors like that, usually non-fatal.

I have not tried rabbit-mq on WSL personally but a quick search of the web shows that people are using rabbit-mq with WSL.

[therealkenc]

#1761 #3243 et all, now #573.