cannot install snapd on trusty / Ubuntu 14.04

[Jürgen Gmach]

In order to process a user support question, I tried to install snapd on Ubuntu 14.04 ( lxc launch ubuntu:14.04 trusty -p default -p $USER ) - as suggested on this page ( https://snapcraft.io/install/go/ubuntu ) but it failed with https://pastebin.canonical.com/p/35K7cMhczC/

Does snapd still support trusty? Should this get fixed? Trusty has support until April 2024, see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases

Thank you!

[Miguel Pires (miguelpires1)]

Hi. Thank you for reporting this, I marked it as a duplicate of https://bugs.launchpad.net/snapd/+bug/1873703. As that report mentions, you can work around this by commenting out the "OOMScoreAdjust" line in /lib/systemd/upstart/snapd.service and restarting the snapd service with `systemctl start snapd.service`. The root cause of the issue is in systemd and has been fixed for a long time (https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/1611) but 14.04's systemd version is very old and doesn't contain the fix.