When I click on the vscode icon absolutely nothing happens, and when I type code in the terminal the message appears:
dropping privs did not work: No such file or directory
(practically all packages downloaded by snap have this problem …)
Please, help me !
Hello. Sorry this isn’t working for you.
What linux distribution are you using?
Could you please run the following command, and paste the output here.
snap version
and
snap list
Thanks for answering me,
I’m using the Linux Mint 19.2 distribution
snap version:
snap 2.43.3
snapd 2.43.3
series 16
linuxmint 19.2
kernel 5.3.0-45-generic
snap list:
Name Version Rev Tracking Publisher Notes
code 0ba0ca52 28 stable vscode✓ classic
core 16-2.44.1 8935 stable canonical✓ core
core18 20200311 1705 stable canonical✓ base
gnome-3-28-1804 3.28.0-16-g27c9498.27c9498 116 stable canonical✓ -
gtk-common-themes 0.1-29-g45e78c5 1474 stable canonical✓ -
leagueoflegends 1.0 56 edge mmtrt devmode
notepad-plus-plus 7.8.5 227 stable mmtrt -
phpstorm 2019.3.4 151 stable jetbrains✓ classic
snapd 2.43.3 6434 stable canonical✓ snapd
wine-platform-3-stable 3.0.4 6 stable mmtrt -
wine-platform-4-staging 4.20 30 candidate mmtrt -
wine-platform-runtime v1.0 108 candidate mmtrt
Can you post the output of the command mount | grep code
As a quick test, to see if this quick fixes it, can you try running:
sudo systemctl apparmor restart
Then try to run snap run code.
If it still fails, can you try a reboot?
Output of :
/dev/sda1 on /boot/efi type vfat (rw,noatime,fmask=0077,dmask=0077,codepage=437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,errors=remount-ro)
/var/lib/snapd/snaps/code_28.snap on /snap/code/28 type squashfs (ro,nodev,relatime,x-gdu.hide)
I tried running the command: sudo systemctl apparmor restart
The answer was:
Unknown operation apparmor.
When I try the code: snap run code
The answer was:
dropping privs did not work: No such file or directory
I will try a reboot
Sorry, my mistake, that should have been sudo systemctl restart apparmor. But a reboot might do it 
Thank’s!
It resolve my problem, now is working perfectly! You save me 
I’m having a similar issue, running snap run code successfully starts VSCode, however running code . doesn’t start any processes (pgrep returns empty output). I have tried the above suggestions, but wasn’t able to resolve this issue.
There must be a change in your snapd permission. Use this “sudo chmod -R 0755 /var/lib/snapd”
There must be a change in your snapd permission. Use this “sudo chmod -R 0755 /var/lib/snapd”
do not ever do this !!!
there are many files and directories underneath this directory that are 0700 or even stricter, changing the whole lot of files and directories underneath /var/lib/snapd recursively to 0755 will likely break your system and rip open a ton of security holes.
Crud. Already did it. Any way to reverse it?