cannot change profile for the next exec call: No such file or directory

[Alan Pope 🍺🐧🐱 🦄]

I have hit this a bunch of times recently on my 16.04 KDE Neon machine.
It only happens if I set SNAPCRAFT_CONTAINER_BUILDS=1, run a build (which fails) and then re-run the build again. Here you can see the end of a failure, me re-running and it failing, then me doing a clean and re-running and it works.

alan@KinkPad-K450:~/src/cointop$ snap version
snap 2.32.1
snapd 2.32.1
series 16
neon 16.04
kernel 4.13.0-37-generic
alan@KinkPad-K450:~/src/cointop$ snapcraft --version
snapcraft, version 2.40+git3.b6ed5ac

  File "/snap/snapcraft/1337/lib/python3.6/site-packages/snapcraft/internal/pluginhandler/__init__.py", line 363, in build
    script_runner.run(scriptlet=self._part_properties.get('prepare'))
  File "/snap/snapcraft/1337/lib/python3.6/site-packages/snapcraft/internal/pluginhandler/_scriptlets.py", line 43, in run
    run([scriptlet_path], cwd=self._builddir)
  File "/snap/snapcraft/1337/lib/python3.6/site-packages/snapcraft/internal/common.py", line 64, in run
    subprocess.check_call(['/bin/sh', f.name] + cmd, **kwargs)
  File "/snap/snapcraft/1337/usr/lib/python3.6/subprocess.py", line 291, in check_call
    raise CalledProcessError(retcode, cmd)
subprocess.CalledProcessError: Command '['/bin/sh', '/tmp/tmplp53fzcu', '/tmp/tmpm286qh9h']' returned non-zero exit status 128.
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Stopping local:snapcraft-cointop
alan@KinkPad-K450:~/src/cointop$ snapcraft
Using default LXD remote because SNAPCRAFT_CONTAINER_BUILDS is set to 1
Device /root/build_cointop removed from snapcraft-cointop
Waiting for a network connection...
Network connection established
Mounting /home/alan/src/cointop into container
Device /root/build_cointop added to snapcraft-cointop
cannot change profile for the next exec call: No such file or directory
Stopping local:snapcraft-cointop
alan@KinkPad-K450:~/src/cointop$ snapcraft clean
Deleting local:snapcraft-cointop
Cleaning up priming area
Cleaning up staging area
Cleaning up parts directory
alan@KinkPad-K450:~/src/cointop$ snapcraft
Using default LXD remote because SNAPCRAFT_CONTAINER_BUILDS is set to 1
Creating snapcraft-cointop
Device fuse added to snapcraft-cointop
Waiting for a network connection...
Network connection established
Hit:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease
Get:2 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates InRelease [102 kB]
Get:3 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-backports InRelease [102 kB]
Get:4 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security InRelease [102 kB]
Get:5 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/universe amd64 Packages [7532 kB]

[Alan Pope 🍺🐧🐱 🦄 (popey)]

perhaps related to bug 1687079 but maybe not?

[Brett Sutton (bsutton)]

Just had this same problem.

SNAPCRAFT_CONTAINER_BUILDS=1 snapcraft clean

 snapcraft --version
snapcraft, version 2.40.1

snap version
snap 2.32.1
snapd 2.32.1
series 16
ubuntu 17.10
kernel 4.13.0-37-generic

performing the clean also fixed the problem for me.

[Brett Sutton (bsutton)]

And my exact error is:

SNAPCRAFT_CONTAINER_BUILDS=1 snapcraft

Using default LXD remote because SNAPCRAFT_CONTAINER_BUILDS is set to 1
Device /root/build_orion-monitor removed from snapcraft-orion-monitor
Waiting for a network connection...

Network connection established
Mounting /home/bsutton/git/orionmonitor/snap-projects/installer into container
Device /root/build_orion-monitor added to snapcraft-orion-monitor
cannot change profile for the next exec call: No such file or directory
Stopping local:snapcraft-orion-monitor

[Sergio Schvezov (sergiusens)]

Christian, please triage.