Snap install issues upon hard kill with Ctrl + c

[Kyle Fazzari]

On 01/24/2017 03:59 PM, Luther Goh Lu Feng wrote:
> I encountered an issue when I did a ctrl + c as snap was installing my helloworld snap. Essentially, I am unable to resume an install, or do any other snap installs. Is there any known way to resolve this should I encounter it again in future?
> 
> This occured on Debian. I had to do an uninstall + reinstall of snapd. But even that failed. It only succeeded after I removed /var/lib/snap after uninstall, before the reinstallation step.
> 
> -- Luther
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> [foo at beaglebone ~/snappy/dockerbuild/snap2] Tue 24 Jan 2017 12:44:33 PM
> # snap install ./hello_2.10_armhf.snap --dangerous
> ubuntu-core 6.11 MB / 64.41 MB [=======>-----------------------------------------------------------------------]   9.48% 434.74 KB/s 2m17s^C
> [foo at beaglebone ~/snappy/dockerbuild/snap2] Tue 24 Jan 2017 12:45:14 PM
> # snap list
> No snaps are installed yet. Try "snap install hello-world".
> [foo at beaglebone ~/snappy/dockerbuild/snap2] Tue 24 Jan 2017 12:45:16 PM
> # snap install ./hello_2.10_armhf.snap --dangerous
> error: cannot install snap file: Get https://search.apps.ubuntu.com/api/v1/snaps/details/ubuntu-core?channel=stable&confinement=strict: net/http: request canceled while waiting for connection (Client.Timeout exceeded while awaiting headers)
> [foo at beaglebone ~/snappy/dockerbuild/snap2] Tue 24 Jan 2017 12:45:31 PM
> # snap install ./hello_2.10_armhf.snap --dangerous
> error: cannot install snap file: snap "ubuntu-core" has changes in progress
> 

tl;dr this is a known bug:

    https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/snapd/+bug/1596077

A decent explanation of the issue is here if you're curious:


https://askubuntu.com/questions/790969/how-do-i-remove-an-incomplete-or-broken-snap-installation-of-nextcloud-on-a-rasp/790975

-- 
Kyle Fazzari (kyrofa)
Software Engineer
Canonical Ltd.
kyle at canonical.com

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