You actually need to boot with systemd for systemctl to work. But NB that in Ubuntu 14.10 this isn't officially supported yet, and many stuff is still broken. But you can append "init=/bin/systemd" to the command line to play with it; a normal desktop works very well.
** Changed in: systemd (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => Invalid -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1387241 Title: systemctl is broken To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/systemd/+bug/1387241/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs