Snapd not installing microstack

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Dear All,

On ubuntu 20.04 and 18.04 and 21.04, Snapd couldn’t install microstack with beta channel but succeeded with edge channel. Error message was as below:

~$ sudo snap install microstack --beta

error: cannot perform the following tasks:

- Mount snap “microstack” (242) (installation not allowed by “kernel-module-control” plug rule of interface “kernel-module-control”)

With sucessfuly edge channel installation, dashboard GUI didn’t show properly with no picutre showing up.

Any suggestion would be appreciated! Thanks.

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The beta channel of microstack still requires the --devmode flag when being installed as the strict confinement pieces have not been promoted to the beta channel yet as we were testing it a bit still. Testing revealed the same issue with the dashboard UI that you’ve reported here and a patch is up to fix it, which should hopefully land soon.

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Have the same issue but with --devmode option

sudo snap install microstack --beta --devmode

error: cannot perform the following tasks: - Mount snap “microstack” (242) (installation not allowed by “kernel-module-control” plug rule of interface “kernel-module-control”)

Option --edge was installed but has some type of issue with web interface (nginx is OK, but no contents displays)

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Thanks Billy. As Alex mentioned, it still didn’t work with flag --devmode. As for UI issue, is there a manual fix? Thanks for the quick response.

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Hi Justin! Seems like I got the solution to resolve an issue on --edge Here is a bug I reported:

according to this you just need to change: /var/snap/microstack/common/etc/horizon/local_settings.d/_05_snap_tweaks.py set there DEBUG = True and restart microstack services
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Awesome, Alex. I’ll give it a go. Thanks.

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worked like a charm. thanks Alex.

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Meanwhile, I was able to get it running, by using the Edge branch. I’d hardly advise it, but should you be in a hurry, you can use the dev branch:

sudo snap install microstack --edge --devmode

This should do the trick, until the fix hits Beta branch.

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fwiw, --devmode is no longer required in the edge channel.

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without --devmode you’ll get a number of issues on UI ( try to access instances there )

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I can only confirm that snap does not install MicroStack beta in dev mode in ubuntu 20.04.

It worked before X-mas.

I am developing Ansible automation scripts using MicroStack for testing and debugging of those scripts.

Unfortunately the edge version does not run my Ansible scripts (for host creation) as I get random errors (that I have not yet analyzed) that does not come up in beta.

Consequently I am stuck here…

Is there a way to get MicroStack beta from before X-mas installed or is there an upgrade that will once more install the beta version due any time soon.

Lots of thanks in advance for any help I can get!!!

Regards

Hans

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Hi All,

I am also facing similar issue with option --beta --devmode Tried installing --egde --devmode, --classic --edge and --classic --beta getting below error while init command

File “/snap/microstack/244/lib/python3.8/site-packages/init/shell.py”, line 69, in check raise subprocess.CalledProcessError(proc.returncode, " ".join(args)) subprocess.CalledProcessError: Command ‘openstack project create --domain default --description “Service Project” service’ returned non-zero exit status 1.

I thought to revert to some older revision something like sudo snap install microstack --devmode --edge --revision=242

This is giving access error error: cannot install “microstack”: Access by specifying a revision is not allowed for this Snap.

Could someone please suggest how to resolve this. Thankyou

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Since latest MicroStack beta (242) was released on November 18’th 2021 and installation of that snap worked perfectly on Ubuntu 20.04 just before X-mas I draw the conclusion that something else has changed in the system, the question is what? Snapd, the kernel, something else?

The random problems I am now phasing with edge version seems to be related to network timeout issues that I haven’t seen before in beta (like an apt-get install in a guest server fails randomly etc).

Any suggestions anyone?

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The problem behind this will probably be fixed with this bug:

Why it worked for me for a month I do not know.

Best workaround for me was to install edge in devmode:

sudo snap install microstack --devmode --edge

(There seems to be a bug in edge that will make virsh crash but with --devmode this does not happen to me.)

Also do not forget to patch the WEB GUI like:

sudo sed -i ‘s/DEBUG = False/DEBUG = True/g’ /var/snap/microstack/common/etc/horizon/local_settings.d/_05_snap_tweaks.py

sudo snap restart microstack.horizon-uwsgi

Hope this will help someone.

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Please fix this snap developers. I confirm that I was able to install microstack via --devmode and --beta successfully without this problem 3 weeks ago, until today it is not. Probably something change in the system.

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This has been fixed awhile now, but I failed to follow up on this thread. New revision was released to the beta channel at the end of January.

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