snapd won't start on dragonboard
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Snappy |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
snapd (Ubuntu) |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
It was working Friday, tried some snap commands this afternoon and snapd is not running. The system was up last three days without interaction, but it could have updated itself - I see an update Sunday
$ ls -lt /snap
total 20
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 Oct 9 17:33 ubuntu-core
This is on a Dragonboard.
Starting it fails as follows:
pat-mcgowan@
● snapd.service - Snappy daemon
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/
Active: inactive (dead) (Result: exit-code) since Tue 2016-10-11 19:34:19 UTC; 30s ago
Process: 3434 ExecStart=
Main PID: 3434 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
Oct 11 19:34:18 localhost.
Oct 11 19:34:18 localhost.
Oct 11 19:34:19 localhost.
Oct 11 19:34:19 localhost.
Oct 11 19:34:19 localhost.
Oct 11 19:34:19 localhost.
From syslog:
Oct 11 19:39:38 localhost systemd[1]: snapd.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Oct 11 19:39:38 localhost systemd[1]: snapd.service: Unit entered failed state.
Oct 11 19:39:38 localhost systemd[1]: snapd.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Oct 11 19:39:39 localhost systemd[1]: snapd.service: Service hold-off time over, scheduling restart.
Oct 11 19:39:39 localhost systemd[1]: Stopped Snappy daemon.
Oct 11 19:39:39 localhost systemd[1]: Started Snappy daemon.
Oct 11 19:39:39 localhost snapd[3538]: error: cannot downgrade: snapd is too old for the current system state (patch level 4)
Oct 11 19:39:39 localhost systemd[1]: snapd.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Oct 11 19:39:39 localhost systemd[1]: snapd.service: Unit entered failed state.
Oct 11 19:39:39 localhost systemd[1]: snapd.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Oct 11 19:39:39 localhost systemd[1]: snapd.service: Service hold-off time over, scheduling restart.
Oct 11 19:39:39 localhost systemd[1]: Stopped Snappy daemon.
Oct 11 19:39:39 localhost systemd[1]: snapd.service: Start request repeated too quickly.
Oct 11 19:39:39 localhost systemd[1]: Failed to start Snappy daemon.
Oct 11 19:39:39 localhost systemd[1]: snapd.socket: Unit entered failed state.
Oct 11 19:41:37 localhost rsyslogd-2007: action 'action 11' suspended, next retry is Tue Oct 11 19:43:07 2016 [v8.16.0 try http://
Why is current pointing to the old version
ls -lt /snap/ubuntu-core/
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Oct 9 17:25 current -> 425
drwxr-xr-x 23 root root 308 Oct 9 04:38 852
drwxr-xr-x 23 root root 308 Oct 8 04:38 844
drwxr-xr-x 23 root root 332 Sep 2 04:37 425