/snap/lxd/***/snap/hooks/configure: snapctl: not found

snapd
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Hello.

snap --version snap 2.44.3.r1450.g4ead117134-1 snapd 2.44.3.r1450.g4ead117134-1 series 16 arch - kernel 5.2.11-arch1-1-ARCH

snap install hello-world

works flawlessly, but when i try to install latest lxd i receive this errors:

Apr 22 20:49:13 fallback-os systemd[1]: Listening on Socket unix for snap application lxd.daemon. Apr 22 20:49:13 fallback-os systemd[1]: Starting Service for snap application lxd.activate… Apr 22 20:49:14 fallback-os lxd.activate[3074]: => Starting LXD activation Apr 22 20:49:14 fallback-os lxd.activate[3074]: ==> Creating missing snap configuration Apr 22 20:49:14 fallback-os lxd.activate[3074]: /snap/lxd/14804/snap/hooks/configure: 46: /snap/lxd/14804/snap/hooks/configure: snapctl: not found Apr 22 20:49:14 fallback-os lxd.activate[3074]: /snap/lxd/14804/snap/hooks/configure: 47: /snap/lxd/14804/snap/hooks/configure: snapctl: not found Apr 22 20:49:14 fallback-os lxd.activate[3074]: /snap/lxd/14804/snap/hooks/configure: 48: /snap/lxd/14804/snap/hooks/configure: snapctl: not found Apr 22 20:49:14 fallback-os lxd.activate[3074]: /snap/lxd/14804/snap/hooks/configure: 49: /snap/lxd/14804/snap/hooks/configure: snapctl: not found

However if i choose another version of lxd, say 3.0 and try to install it, then install succeeds:

sudo snap install lxd --channel=3.0

snap info lxd name: lxd summary: System container manager and API publisher: Canonical✓ store-url: https://snapcraft.io/lxd contact: Issues · lxc/incus · GitHub license: unset … commands: - lxd.benchmark - lxd.buginfo - lxd.check-kernel - lxd.lxc - lxd - lxd.migrate services: lxd.activate: oneshot, enabled, inactive lxd.daemon: simple, enabled, inactive snap-id: J60k4JY0HppjwOjW8dZdYc8obXKxujRu tracking: 3.0/stable refresh-date: today at 20:51 EEST …

Previously i had no problems with version 4.0.0 (14503), but when i tried to update it i received the same error listed here.

I thought that snap is broken so reinstalled it. I have deleted all snapd folders, like tutorials shows. And made a clean install of snapd from git via yay.

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Is this Arch? Can you run ldd /usr/lib/snapd/snapctl and post the output?

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That’s right.

uname -a Linux fallback-os 5.2.11-arch1-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu Aug 29 08:09:36 UTC 2019 x86_64 GNU/Linux

[colt@fallback-os ~]$ ldd /usr/lib/snapd/snapctl ldd: /usr/lib/snapd/snapctl: No such file or directory [colt@fallback-os ~]$ which snapctl /usr/bin/snapctl [colt@fallback-os ~]$ ldd /usr/bin/snapctl linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007fff1ff55000) libpthread.so.0 => /usr/lib/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007ff29277a000) libc.so.6 => /usr/lib/libc.so.6 (0x00007ff2925b7000) /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 => /usr/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007ff2933b6000) [colt@fallback-os ~]$ ls -la /usr/bin/snapctl -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 15496392 Apr 22 20:04 /usr/bin/snapctl I suppose it’s not good?

snap list --all Name Version Rev Tracking Publisher Notes core 16-2.44.3 9066 latest/stable canonical✓ core core18 20200311 1705 latest/stable canonical✓ base lxd 3.23 14133 3.23/stable canonical✓ - snapd 2.44.3 7264 latest/stable canonical✓ snapd

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Also, where does the package come from?

I suspect you’re using snapd-git from AUR, which you shouldn’t really, snapd is what closely tracks the releases. I’ve pushed some updates to snapd-git which were missing and could potentially have caused an issue that you saw.

Still I strongly suggest you use snapd package instead. Word of warning, when switching from snapd-git to snapd, the packages are marked as conflicting, so pacman will remove snapd-git along with all the data from snaps.

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You are right, i’ve used snapd-git, but with the thought that it closely tracks latest releases instead. Arch wiki doesn’t answer on this question, but snapd-git aur page has comment with recommendation to use snapd:

bboozzoo commented on 2019-11-27 16:41 @rodneyck snapd-git builds directly from master, so there can be an occasional hiccup, once interfaces: remove leftover reservedForOS by mvo5 · Pull Request #7809 · canonical/snapd · GitHub lands, things should be back to normal.

I’d recommend installing snapd for regular use.

Ok, thank you. I’ll then move to snapd and post an update how it went.

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AFAK *-git are usually built directly from git repos of respective upstreams. I’ve pinned a comment under snapd-git mentioning that snapd should be used instead and dropped snapd-git from the archwiki page.

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@mborzecki thank you for your support, after moving to snapd everything is working.

$ snap version

snap 2.44.3-1 snapd 2.44.3-1 series 16 arch - kernel 5.2.11-arch1-1-ARCH

$ snap list

Name Version Rev Tracking Publisher Notes core18 20200311 1705 latest/stable canonical✓ base lxd 4.0.1 14804 latest/stable canonical✓ - snapd 2.44.3 7264 latest/stable canonical✓ snapd

$ snap changes ID Status Spawn Ready Summary 1 Done today at 18:25 EEST today at 18:25 EEST Initialize system state 2 Done today at 18:26 EEST today at 18:27 EEST Install “core18” snap 3 Done today at 18:26 EEST today at 18:26 EEST Initialize device 4 Done today at 18:28 EEST today at 18:29 EEST Install “snapd” snap 5 Done today at 18:31 EEST today at 18:32 EEST Install “lxd” snap

$ which snapctl /usr/bin/snapctl $ ls -la /usr/bin/snapctl lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 Apr 23 18:18 /usr/bin/snapctl → /usr/lib/snapd/snapctl $ ldd /usr/lib/snapd/snapctl not a dynamic executable