Snapd not running in CI - how to start?

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Linux/snap noob here. I’m trying to get snap working in a CI environment (GitLab) but am having troubles.

The environment is KDE Neon (Xenial) but running snap --version suggests that things aren’t running correctly:

$ snap --version
snap    2.32.3.2
snapd   unavailable
series  -

I’ve scoured the docs for how you might ‘start’ snapd if snap is already installed but can’t find anything. I had the same issue running an image of straight Ubuntu 18.0 in CI.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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systemctl start snapd should do, if not check systemctl status snapd

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Thanks for the advice. I tried both suggestions (start and status) but they return the same error:

Failed to connect to bus: No such file or directory

Any ideas what that could be?

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Aaaah, this appears to be related to the fact that I’m doing this all in Docker:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/39169403/systemd-and-systemctl-within-ubuntu-docker-images

Sorry for the noise!

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k@danb I have run into the same problem. May I ask what did you do to work around and get snapd working in CI docker?

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Snapd depends on systemd, so unless you can make a systemd instance available in Docker it won’t work.

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My workaround was to not use Docker in the end :slight_smile:

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