WSL2 can't connect local mysql server

[Ashubel]

Oops! My WSL2 with Kali, but can't connect to mysql, the error like this:

[therealkenc]

The install isn't clean partly because #573 and possibly elsewise absence systemd.

That's not causing service mariadb start to fail though. There is no /etc/init.d/mariadb and that unrecognized service is expected behavior (unrecognized 'cause not there). I took a look at my 20.04 Ubuntu Real Linux box and it doesn't have /etc/init.d/mariadb either. So this is probably going to be the situation for all modern-ish Debian derived distros. There is analogous mongodb case from a while back here and here.

Starting mariadb with systemctl is #1579. Some docker folks use a systemctl facsimile mentioned here. Or start it manually (how I'd roll). Or find (or write) an /etc/init.d script to start it slightly less manually. Or big hammer fire up systemd à la #994 and various blogs on the web.