On Linux systems that use systemd, it may be necessary to restart systemd without rebooting the entire system. This can be done by reloading the systemd manager configuration and restarting the systemd-journald and systemd-udevd services.
- First, check the status of systemd-journald and systemd-udevd services by running the following command:
systemctl status systemd-journald systemd-udevd
- Next, reload the systemd manager configuration with the following command:
systemctl daemon-reload
- Restart the systemd-journald and systemd-udevd services by running the following command:
systemctl restart systemd-journald systemd-udevd
- After the above steps, you can check the status of the systemd-journald and systemd-udevd services again to ensure that they have been restarted successfully.
systemctl status systemd-journald systemd-udevd
- To check the status of all the services, run the following command:
systemctl list-units --type=service --all
It is important to note that restarting systemd may cause some services to be temporarily unavailable. Additionally, It’s a good idea to take a backup of the system before restarting the systemd in case of any critical library installed.