Error message when I try to download an app

snapd
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Whenever I try to download an app (discord, spotify) I get this error message:
error: cannot perform the following tasks:

  • Mount snap “core” (8689) ([start snap-core-8689.mount] failed with exit status 1: Job for snap-core-8689.mount failed.

See “systemctl status snap-core-8689.mount” and “journalctl -xe” for details.

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How can I fix this?

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Thanks for the report. What happens if you reboot (sorry), does it work then?

Also, what’s the output of the command snap version? Thanks.

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It still doesn’t work if I reboot.
The output of snap version is:
snap 2.21-2+b1
snapd 2.21-2+b1
series 16
debian 9

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Ah, looks like snapd is outdated in debian. @mvo / @zyga-snapd - plans to update that?

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This is Debian 9. We cannot update it, as far as I know, apart from a backport package. Even if we did that you would have to install from backports explicitly.

We can try. I have never done that though

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I was under the impression that snapd self-updated despite the deb version. I’ve seen more current versions in snap version output on Debian 9 and 10.

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this is right, but that feature only got added after 2.21 … to re-exec into the snap provided snapd version you need to be on a recent enough version with the deb.

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