juju permission denied on fresh install

[Liam Young]

On a freshly installed jammy server, juju command fails with permission denied:

$ sudo snap install juju --channel 3.0/candidate
juju (3.0/candidate) 3.0.2 from Canonical✓ installed
$ juju clouds
ERROR cannot load ssh client keys: mkdir /home/ubuntu/.local: permission denied

It can be worked around by manually creating local/share:

mkdir -p .local/share

Versions:

$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS
Release: 22.04
Codename: jammy

$ snap list
Name Version Rev Tracking Publisher Notes
core20 20220826 1623 latest/stable canonical✓ base
juju 3.0.2 21474 3.0/candidate canonical✓ -
lxd 5.0.1-9dcf35b 23541 5.0/stable/… canonical✓ -
snapd 2.57.2 17029 latest/stable canonical✓ snapd

[James Page (james-page)]

Confirmed - I see the same on a fresh install and one where I scrubbed .local - share/juju was the only subdirectory in it.

[Ian Booth (wallyworld)]

FWIW I've raised a snapd bug

https://bugs.launchpad.net/snapd/+bug/1997598