Cannot run any snap

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I just did a fresh Ubuntu 18.04 install, installed AMDGPU-PRO, Ubuntu Kernel Utility and a 4.19.6-041906-generic kernel. Then I installed a few snaps and went to try them out. It didn’t launch from the gui launcher and the $ snap run <installed-snap-name> always gets me the following result:

cannot perform readlinkat() on the mount namespace file descriptor of the init process: Permission denied

$ neofetch

    OS: Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS x86_64 
    Kernel: 4.19.6-041906-generic 
    Uptime: 5 mins 
    Packages: 1812 
    Shell: bash 4.4.19 
    Resolution: 1680x1050, 1920x1200 
    DE: GNOME 3.28.3 
    WM: GNOME Shell 
    CPU: AMD Ryzen Threadripper 1900X 8-
    GPU: AMD Radeon RX Vega 
    Memory: 2358MiB / 15958MiB

$ snap version

    snap    2.34.2+18.04
    snapd   2.34.2+18.04
    series  16
    ubuntu  18.04
    kernel  4.19.6-041906-generic

$ sudo journalctl | grep audit:
https://paste.ubuntu.com/p/qxnVSVvKB3/

[EDIT]:

$ sudo snap refresh core --edge appears to have fixed the issue for me. When is the fix expected to land into stable?

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No reply to this from any snap protagonist after more than 11 months tells me: snap is unreliable **** that nobody cares about.

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as you can see from the last line, it was already fixed in the edge channel when it was reported … that should tell you that snap issues are often enough fixed ahead of time :wink:

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