running snap application as normal user gives chroot error

[Robbert Muller]

when running the lxc cli, i get the following error
vagrant@vagrant-ubuntu-trusty-64:~$ lxc
chroot: cannot change root directory to '/var/lib/snapd/hostfs': Operation not permitted

looking at the snap binary, i expected a suid root binary
ls -lad /usr/bin/snap
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 15519760 Aug 31 10:23 /usr/bin/snap

this is in a fresh ubuntu/trusty64 vagrant machine
apt-get install snapd
snap install lxd

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: snapd 2.27.5~14.04
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-96.119~14.04.1-generic 4.4.83
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-96-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.25
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Oct 4 10:57:50 2017
SourcePackage: snapd
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Claude Durocher (claude-d)]

I also have the same problem with LXD on Solus. Current workaround : use of sudo.

[Robbert Muller (mjrider)]

i might be barking up the wrong tree, installing lxd version 'edge' solved the problem. It might be a problem with the snap itself instead of the snapd
see also https://github.com/lxc/lxd/issues/3892