Unable to reboot windows with Bash On Windows

[panda2k]

When using the reboot command in Bash On Windows I get the error Failed to connect to bus: No such file or directory

[ryanerwin]

Since I could be running multiple Linux terminals (say one copy of Fedora and one copy of Ubuntu) simultaneously, would it be desirable that reboot in Ubuntu would also stop my Fedora session and reboot my entire computer?

This one doesn't make much sense to me, at least as WSL is now...

Once WSL supports an Init daemon and automatically bringing up a bunch of services, this would make a lot more sense... At least to use reboot to restart all processes related to that WSL instance.

Continuing to rely on shutdown.exe would probably make more sense for rebooting the entire system.

[benhillis]

@ryanerwin - Agreed. If we eventually do support running system I would expect the reboot command to terminate just the current WSL distribution, not reboot the entire Windows machine.

[therealkenc]

Per Ben, rebooting Windows from within WSL with the reboot(8) command per the issue title was declined by-design. For shutting down the instance (contrast rebooting Windows) see #3253. Workaround (put in your .bashrc or similar):

alias reboot='powershell.exe -command reboot-computer'

Or if you are a good person and haven't given yourself Windows Administrator privileges:

alias reboot='runas.exe /noprofile /user:Administrator "powershell.exe -command reboot-computer"'