Missing environment variables

[Didier Roche]

Le 21/10/2016 à 15:37, Aaron Ogle a écrit :
> Didier:
> 
> Like I said its only happened to a few people, never had it personally. 
> One upgraded to 16.10 and it went away(got impatient 😀 I think).  Is
> there some piece of information I could get from them that might assist
> in the reproduction of the issue?
>

Let's wait for Zygmunt to answer if he can think of any case where a
missing SNAP_* env variable is possible with snap-confine as you think
your users are getting, or if it's a misconception on the debugging on
their side and something else is interfering which would lead to that error.

Cheers,
Didier

> 
> On Fri, Oct 21, 2016, 04:19 Didier Roche <didrocks at ubuntu.com
> <mailto:didrocks at ubuntu.com>> wrote:
> 
>     Le 20/10/2016 à 17:36, Aaron Ogle a écrit :
>>     Hey guys,
> 
>     Hey Aaron,
> 
>>
>>     With our Rocket.Chat server snap. We've had several cases now
>>     where users come to us trying to figure out why it hasn't started
>>     yet after installing.
>>
>>     Our snap:
>>     https://github.com/RocketChat/Rocket.Chat/blob/develop/.snapcraft/stable/snapcraft.yaml
>>
>>     rocketchat-mongo:
>>     command: env LC_ALL=C mongod --smallfiles --dbpath=$SNAP_COMMON
> 
>     This is correct, and the generated wrapper (just checked, downloaded
>     it from the store) is doing:
>     exec "env" LC_ALL=C mongod --smallfiles --dbpath=$SNAP_COMMON "$@"
> 
> 
>>
>>     After explaining to them how to get logs, it will say our mongo
>>     install is missing the dbpath.
>>
>>     The exact error they are getting:
>>     Error parsing command line: the argument for option '--dbpath'
>>     should follow immediately after the equal sign
>>
>>     This seems like for some reason SNAP_COMMON isn't getting set.
>>
>>     I've confirmed that they are using version 2.15 of snap / snapd.
>>
>>     I also asked them to drop into the snap: sudo snap run --shell
>>     rocketchat-server
>>
>>     Then do an: env to see if SNAP_COMMON is even set. From there it
>>     does seem to be set.
>     Is it the case as well for you? I just tried this and:
> 
>     didrocks at tidus:~$ sudo snap run --shell rocketchat-server
>     root at tidus:/home/didrocks# env | grep SNAP_COMMON
>     SNAP_COMMON=/var/snap/rocketchat-server/common
> 
>     So, it's set for me, CCing Zyga who might have an idea if there are
>     some cases where snap-confine doesn't set those variables…
> 
>     Cheers,
>     Didier
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