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=== Assistant: Yeah, this is the wall, and it’s a real one—not you missing something obvious. ===
Yeah, this is the wall, and it’s a real one—not you missing something obvious.

systemctl cannot work here because this environment is not running systemd at PID 1. It’s a container-style runtime with a minimal init (or none at all), so there is no service manager, no DBus, no unit registry. That error isn’t a permission issue or a misconfiguration; it’s the OS telling you, very plainly, “this concept does not exist here.”

So if you were trying to answer “what services are running” or “which daemon is binding that port,” systemctl was never going to be the right weapon. You’re debugging with the wrong mental model. This is not a VM, not a bare-metal host, and not a proper distro boot. It’s a sandbox.

If you want the actual truth in this environment, you need to think in terms of processes, not services. Things to look at next are ps aux, /proc, and socket-to-process mapping. The right follow-ups are commands like ps aux | grep, ss -tanp (if permitted), or inspecting whatever supervisor or entrypoint started these processes in the first place.

Uncomfortable question you should answer before going further: are you trying to debug your code, or are you assuming some invisible system daemon is sabotaging you? Because the output so far says this is a user-space process story, not a system one.