System call fails in classic mode, works in devmode

#1

Hi,
i’m working on an qt/c++ application, where i need some system call’s. For testing i just wanted to write something to the journal like system("echo test123 | systemd-cat"). This works in devmode pretty fine but in classic mode i get a page fault.
As i understand, classic mode should be able to do system calls by default?
I tried with several plugs:
plugs: [home, network, desktop, framebuffer, network-control, raw-usb, removable-media, snapd-control, client, system-observe, system-files, system-trace, process-control, log-observe, storage-framework-service].
Also snappy-debug couldn’t help with the problem.
Maybe someone has a solution or more ideas to try?

Edit: commands from snap shell are working also fine

#2

use the snappy-debug snap package.

install it, run it in a second terminal while you execute your app and it should give you suggestions about interfaces if it can …

#3

systemd-cat comes from the host (I suspect), so if your in-snap bits have proper rpaths and program loaders set, this should just work. If you achieved library discovery through LD_LIBRARY_PATH you might potentially be mixing libraries from those of the snap and base with those of the host (this is not a problem in devmode as your snap pivots its root to that of the base).

If you are doing a mix of rpaths and LD_LIBARARY_PATH (or have a runpath setup in your binaries), then you get a mix of libraries (libc potentially) which will most certainly also be a cause for this.

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