gnome-calculator does not start from activities or from the launcher, starting it
from terminal gnome-calculator ask to install gnome-3-26-1604 but I have Gnome 3.28.0
corrado@corrado-p13-bb-0319:~$ gnome-calculator
You need to connect this snap to the gnome platform snap.
You can do this with those commands:
snap install gnome-3-26-1604
snap connect gnome-calculator:gnome-3-26-1604 gnome-3-26-1604
No, but i should have a message when i try to start a snap from the
launcher so i opened the problem. Furthermore gnome-3-26-1604 platform snap
has been not automatically updated.
the same command does not work for gimp:
corrado@corrado-p13-bb-0319:~$ snap connect
gnome-system-monitor:gnome-3-26-1604 gnome-3-26-1604
corrado@corrado-p13-bb-0319:~$ gnome-system-monitor
corrado@corrado-p13-bb-0319:~$ gimp
Gtk-Message: Failed to load module “gail”
Gtk-Message: Failed to load module “atk-bridge”
Cannot open display:
corrado@corrado-p13-bb-0319:~$ snap connect gimp:gnome-3-26-1604
gnome-3-26-1604
error: snap “gimp” has no plug named “gnome-3-26-1604”
corrado@corrado-p13-bb-0319:~$
corrado@corrado-p13-bb-0319:~$ snap refresh
All snaps up to date.
corrado@corrado-p13-bb-0319:~$ gimp
Gtk-Message: Failed to load module “gail”
Gtk-Message: Failed to load module “atk-bridge”
Cannot open display:
corrado@corrado-p13-bb-0319:~$
Agreed, the lack of feedback is bad UX, and the platform snap should be automatically downloaded and connected when needed. This is being discussed in that other thread.
I am having the same issue.
I installed ubuntu 18.04 minimal. It had snap 2.31.2 installed.
gnome-calculator, gnome-system-monitor, gnome-logs and gnome-characters snaps all worked and were connected to gnome-3-26-1604.
I also installed gimp and vidcutter and they both worked too.
Then I updated the system and snap 2.32+18.04~pre5 got installed.
No snap works anymore, all gnome apps have to be reconnected, they work if I reconnect them, but I shouldn’t have to re-connect them on every snap update, right? gimp and vidcutter also fail after the update to 2.32+18.04~pre5
for example gnome-logs returned, it was connected before the update to 2.32+18.04~pre5
You need to connect this snap to the gnome platform snap.
You can do this with those commands:
snap install gnome-3-26-1604
snap connect gnome-logs:gnome-3-26-1604 gnome-3-26-1604
gimp returns
execl failed: No such file or directory
child exited with status 1
vidcutter returns
qt.qpa.screen: QXcbConnection: Could not connect to display :0
Could not connect to any X display.
I am getting the same issue, the gnome-calculator is not launching and I see the same snap error in the console.
I ran the 2 commands, they completed successfully with no issues:
$ gnome-calculator
You need to connect this snap to the gnome platform snap.
You can do this with those commands:
snap install gnome-3-26-1604
snap connect gnome-calculator:gnome-3-26-1604 gnome-3-26-1604
(the ‘3-26-1604’ number defines the platform version and might change)
$ snap install gnome-3-26-1604
error: forbidden
$ gnome-calculator
You need to connect this snap to the gnome platform snap.
You can do this with those commands:
snap install gnome-3-26-1604
snap connect gnome-calculator:gnome-3-26-1604 gnome-3-26-1604
(the ‘3-26-1604’ number defines the platform version and might change)
$ sudo snap install gnome-3-26-1604
snap “gnome-3-26-1604” is already installed, see “snap refresh --help”
$ sudo snap connect gnome-calculator:gnome-3-26-1604 gnome-3-26-1604
$ snap list
Name Version Rev Tracking Developer Notes
core 16-2.32.6 4571 stable canonical core
discord 0.0.5 64 stable snapcrafters -
gnome-3-26-1604 3.26.0 64 stable/… canonical -
gnome-calculator 3.28.1 167 stable/… canonical -
gnome-characters 3.28.0 86 stable/… canonical -
gnome-logs 3.28.0 31 stable/… canonical -
gnome-system-monitor 3.26.0 39 stable/… canonical -
spotify 1.0.77.338.g758ebd78-41 13 stable spotify -
telegram-desktop 1.2.17 142 stable 3v1n0 -
$ gnome-calculator
You need to connect this snap to the gnome platform snap.
You can do this with those commands:
snap install gnome-3-26-1604
snap connect gnome-calculator:gnome-3-26-1604 gnome-3-26-1604
(the ‘3-26-1604’ number defines the platform version and might change)
It looks that I had 2 different gnome-calculators installed, one was versioned 3.28.1 and the other one 1:3.28.1-1ubuntu1. Removing the 3.28.1 solved the problem. Not sure how this happened probably an Ubuntu Software mess up as it seems that this is a duplicate entry in their software manager.
Removing was a bit tricky. Doing apt remove gnome-calculator would remove the working one. When pressing super I could see both calculators in the available applications. Right clicking on each -> show details would reveal which was which. I removed the one not working from there.
Had this issue now, on a newly installed 18.10 ubuntu.
On a simple thing as a calculator, what happened with “apt install gnome-calculator” and it just works?
Should the gnome-calculator really be hit with the “snap hammer”?
This is actually a snapd bug, for some reason it’s not properly mounting the content provided by gnome-3-26-1604 in some situations. For more details see Can't connect interfaces (so can't run snaps)
I had the same problem in my Ubuntu 18.10, and I also tried the commands suggested by the error but didn’t work. So to solve the issue I uninstalled the app from Snap with: