Unable to contact snap store (Ubuntu 20.04 LTS)

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I have the same thread on the same topic but it was related to Linux Mint 20. So I try Ubuntu 20.04 LTS on my laptop and fortunately snap is working well. So I installed Ubuntu 20.04 LTS on my desktop after a long hassle but again I receive the same error (unable to contact snap store). I think there is a problem with my desktop installation so I was wondering if you could provide any solution.

Thanks in advance for your time.

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By the way, the only difference in installation between my laptop and desktop is that during the installation I choose Iran for timezone whereas US for my desktop.

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I made a fresh installation of Ubuntu and I was able to snap. Snap version was 2.48.2.1 (the same for snapd). After upgrading the packages I was not able to snap anymore. The current version of snap is 2.48.3+20.04 so I guess that is due to upgrading snap.

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I resolve the problem by downgrading snapd.

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Can you reach api.snapcraft.io with i.e. curl from this machine?

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Is curl a command? It says:
Command ‘curl’ not found, but can be installed with:

sudo apt install curl
Should I install curl?

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Yes please install curl withsudo apt install curl, and then run

curl --verbose api.snapcraft.io
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This is output:

  • Trying 91.189.92.19:80…
  • TCP_NODELAY set
  • Connected to api.snapcraft.io (91.189.92.19) port 80 (#0)

GET / HTTP/1.1
Host: api.snapcraft.io
User-Agent: curl/7.68.0
Accept: /

  • Mark bundle as not supporting multiuse
    < HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    < Server: gunicorn/19.7.1
    < Date: Tue, 06 Apr 2021 17:35:45 GMT
    < Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
    < Content-Length: 64
    < Snap-Store-Version: 34
    < X-View-Name: snapdevicegw.webapi.root
    < X-VCS-Revision: 61bdb1d
    < X-Request-Id: BC9F4006648D0A325D770050606C9BF12EC2C7
    < Connection: keep-alive
    <
    snapcraft.io store API service - Copyright 2018-2019 Canonical.
  • Connection #0 to host api.snapcraft.io left intact
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By the way, I am using the old version of snapd. Do you want me to install the new version?

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Yes if you can update snapd that would be ideal

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The problem is resolved. The problem was related to snap version 2.48.3+20.04. The current version is 2.49.2. If you wish I can downgrade the snap to 2.48.3+20.04 and check what would be the output of curl.

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If the problem goes away for you with 2.49.2, that’s great, but I’m a bit surprised that upgrading snapd helped. It’s possible you were experiencing some sort of store outage. But also downgrading snapd wouldn’t change the output of the curl command

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https://status.snapcraft.io/ shows that there was an outage earlier today, i guess you have just won the lottery and tried to use the store the moments it was inoperational …

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My network connection is pretty good … Screenshot from 2021-06-01 09-51-32

However I encounter problems for updating …

sudo apt install chromium-browser Reading package lists… Done Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done The following NEW packages will be installed: chromium-browser 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0 B/48,3 kB of archives. After this operation, 164 kB of additional disk space will be used. Preconfiguring packages … (Reading database … 195431 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack …/chromium-browser_1%3a85.0.4183.83-0ubuntu0.20.04.2_amd64.deb … => Installing the chromium snap ==> Checking connectivity with the snap store

Progress: [ 20%] [##########################################…]

It hangs there @ 20% No outage reported and curl is installed but

curl --verbose api.snapcraft.io

  • Trying 91.189.92.41:80…
  • TCP_NODELAY set

must be killed as it hangs :frowning:

snap --version snap 2.50 snapd 2.50 series 16 ubuntu 20.04 kernel 5.8.0-53-generic

Any idea what’s wrong beside PBKAC ?

Please note that my post is timestamped April 7th while we are June 1st … (at least I am :slight_smile: ). Even weirder … the date of my post now change to June 1st

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Are you able to manually download any snaps via snap download chromium?