run_init command not found

Introduction

When you run more command in linux terminal / console, you get the following error message

run_init: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: run_init: command not found

Solutions to run_init: command not found

How To Fix run_init: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu run_init is provided by newrole package.

newrole is:

Security-enhanced Linux is a patch of the Linux® kernel and a number of utilities with enhanced security functionality designed to add mandatory access controls to Linux. The Security-enhanced Linux kernel contains new architectural components originally developed to improve the security of the Flask operating system. These architectural components provide general support for the enforcement of many kinds of mandatory access control policies, including those based on the concepts of Type Enforcement®, Role-based Access Control, and Multi-level Security.

RBAC/MLS policy machines require newrole as a way of changing the role or level of a logged in user.

This package contains newrole to switch roles, run_init to run /etc/init.d scripts in the proper context.

To fix this problem, we can install more using the command below.

sudo apt-get -y install newrole

This command might take some time to finish depending on your machine internet connection.

You can also use apt command to install newrole.

sudo apt -y install newrole

Or if you have aptitude installed you can use the following command.

sudo aptitude install newrole

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix run_init command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.