"cannot locate core snap" error

rasmus91 2017-06-05 04:40:39 UTC #1

Hello There

I’ve a Manjaro install, it uses an old /home partition from an earlier elementary install.

after installing snapd, and doing snap install hello

it fails at snap run hello saying: cannot locate core snap: no such file or directory

I can’t figure out what to do, I’ve reinstalled a few times by now. I’ve run systemctl commands to check that snapd services are running, and everything looks alright to me there.

any suggestions?

Manjaro snapd trying to install ubuntu-core

Snap on Arch/Liri OS

zyga 2017-06-05 07:23:24 UTC #2

Hey

Can you please give me the output of snap version?

rasmus91 2017-06-05 08:51:23 UTC #3

yes

snap unknown snapd unknown series 16 manjaro unknown kernel 4.9.30-1-MANJARO

zyga 2017-06-05 08:56:59 UTC #4

This looks like a self-built version of snapd. Can you tell me which git commit did you start with?

popey 2017-06-05 10:13:07 UTC #5

Is it the “unknown” which makes you think that? Because I have seen “unknown” in some of my systems, and the snap install came from your packages, not self built.

zyga 2017-06-05 10:14:17 UTC #6

Yes, those indicate the package was built incorrectly. I’d like to understand where they are coming from.

popey 2017-06-05 12:02:54 UTC #7

@zyga What debug info do you need from my two arch (antergos / manjaro) to help?

zyga 2017-06-05 12:04:04 UTC #8

Arch as in the Arch Linux distribution? If so then that package needs to be updated as last time I checked it was out of date (and we could not update it ourselves). CC @morphis

popey 2017-06-05 12:05:09 UTC #9

Yes, OP has Manjaro which is based off Arch. I have Manjaro and Antergos, which pull snapd from the same place AIUI.

popey 2017-06-05 12:34:51 UTC #10

We already have a bug tracking this. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/snapd/+bug/1678040

zyga 2017-06-05 12:47:37 UTC #11

According to this page https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/snapd/ snapd on Arch is at version 2.25-1, can you confirm that?

rasmus91 2017-06-05 20:06:59 UTC #12

Wow, a lot happened here.

To catch up, there’s a thread at he Manjaro forums, where we tried to solve it to no avail.

I installed it through: pacman -S snapd
small update:

pacman -Q -i snapd Name : snapd Version : 2.25-1 Description : Service and tools for management of snap packages. Architecture : x86_64 URL : https://github.com/snapcore/snapd Licenses : GPL3 Groups : None Provides : None Depends On : snap-confine squashfs-tools Optional Deps : None Required By : None Optional For : None Conflicts With : None Replaces : None Installed Size : 26,50 MiB Packager : Timothy Redaelli <timothy.redaelli@gmail.com> Build Date : 2017-05-10T11:14:08 CEST Install Date : 2017-06-05T07:15:52 CEST Install Reason : Explicitly installed Install Script : Yes Validated By : Signature

so, to your question about version: yes, i believe so.

mvo 2017-06-06 06:57:52 UTC #13

Thanks for your feedback!

The error message appears to be coming from the snap-confine part of snapd, it is slightly different from the one you posted cannot locate the core snap (note the extra the). I assume it is still the one you are seeing?

Could you please paste the output of the following commands?

$ snap changes
$ ls -ld /{var/lib/snapd/snap},snap}/{core,ubuntu-core}/*

Snap-confine expects to find some data in /snap/core/current (usually) which appears to be not there for some reason. So we need to find out why its not there and what is there instead

rasmus91 2017-06-06 09:10:21 UTC #14

No changes there, no, same error as before

$ snap changes ID Status Spawn Ready Summary 9 Done 2017-06-05T20:05:04Z 2017-06-05T20:05:15Z Auto-refresh snap "core"

and

ls -ld /{var/lib/snapd/snap},snap}/{core,ubuntu-core}/* ls: cannot access '/var/lib/snapd/snap}/core/*': No such file or directory ls: cannot access '/var/lib/snapd/snap}/ubuntu-core/*': No such file or directory ls: cannot access '/snap/ubuntu-core/*': No such file or directory drwxr-xr-x 24 root root 321 Apr 11 14:28 /snap/core/1689 drwxr-xr-x 24 root root 321 Apr 28 08:51 /snap/core/1804 drwxr-xr-x 24 root root 321 Jun 1 20:30 /snap/core/2085 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Jun 5 22:05 /snap/core/current -> 2085

rasmus91 2017-06-08 10:53:12 UTC #15

Anything further to add? anything else i can do to troublesoot?

popey 2017-06-08 11:24:30 UTC #16

Yup, double checked, made sure the daemon was running, even tried re-installing and it still shows ‘unknown’.

[alan@manjaro ~]$ pacman -Q snapd
snapd 2.25-1
[alan@manjaro ~]$ snap version
snap     unknown
snapd    unknown
series   16
manjaro  unknown
kernel   4.9.30-1-MANJARO
[alan@manjaro ~]$ sudo pacman -S snapd
[sudo] password for alan: 
warning: snapd-2.25-1 is up to date -- reinstalling
resolving dependencies...
looking for conflicting packages...

Packages (1) snapd-2.25-1

Total Installed Size:  26.50 MiB
Net Upgrade Size:       0.00 MiB

:: Proceed with installation? [Y/n] 
(1/1) checking keys in keyring                                               [###########################################] 100%
(1/1) checking package integrity                                             [###########################################] 100%
(1/1) loading package files                                                  [###########################################] 100%
(1/1) checking for file conflicts                                            [###########################################] 100%
(1/1) checking available disk space                                          [###########################################] 100%
:: Processing package changes...
(1/1) reinstalling snapd                                                     [###########################################] 100%
:: Running post-transaction hooks...
(1/1) Arming ConditionNeedsUpdate...
[alan@manjaro ~]$ snap version
snap     unknown
snapd    unknown
series   16
manjaro  unknown
kernel   4.9.30-1-MANJARO
[alan@manjaro ~]$ systemctl start snapd
[alan@manjaro ~]$ snap version
snap     unknown
snapd    unknown
series   16
manjaro  unknown
kernel   4.9.30-1-MANJARO

zyga 2017-06-08 15:25:19 UTC #17

The package build script needs to be updated. I think this is something @morphis could look at

morphis 2017-06-08 15:28:38 UTC #18

You have something specific in mind? The package is at 2.26 so fairly recent.

What I spot from a first look is that is missed certain things like snap-discard-ns etc. See https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/community.git/tree/trunk/PKGBUILD?h=packages/snapd#n47

zyga 2017-06-08 15:31:53 UTC #19

Well, the smoking gun is the lack of version information. I bet the way we do things needs to be cross-checked with other distributions. We don’t install snapctl, snap-update-ns and snap-discard-ns. That’s a lot of things missing from a functional system. I could look deeper and I suspect that apps-bin-path.sh probably diverged from similar scripts that we use in other distributions. Tab completions and man pages are probably also missing. The void directory is gone, etc.

I think we need to boot up arch and iterate until the list of files in this and the debian package is roughly the same.

morphis 2017-06-08 15:33:32 UTC #20

Need to see when I get time for that but added on the list. Mailed Timothy again as he didn’t replied to my last mails yet.