Disco daily install doens't include the snaps

[Sebastien Bacher]

That has been reported/discussed on https://forum.snapcraft.io/t/no-more-preinstalled-snap-on-ubuntu-19-04/10339

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

bug #1819287 was also reported about the .manifest issue

[Ken VanDine (ken-vandine)]

I downloaded today's pending image (20190311), all the seeded snaps are there both in the live session and after installation.

[Didier Roche-Tolomelli (didrocks)]

The .manifest issue isn't a regression: see https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/livecd-rootfs/+bug/1819287/comments/4. However, this is valid and could be added.

[corrado venturini (corradoventu)]

Installed from last ISO, still no snaps
Ubuntu 19.04 "Disco Dingo" - Alpha amd64 (20190311)corrado@corrado-p6-dd-0311:~$ snap list
Name Version Rev Tracking Publisher Notes
core 16-2.37.2 6405 stable canonical✓ core
gnome-3-26-1604 3.26.0.20190228 82 stable/… canonical✓ -
corrado@corrado-p6-dd-0311:~$ inxi -SCI
System:
  Host: corrado-p6-dd-0311 Kernel: 5.0.0-7-generic x86_64 bits: 64
  Desktop: Gnome 3.31.92 Distro: Ubuntu 19.04 (Disco Dingo)
CPU:
  Topology: Dual Core model: Intel Core i3-7100 bits: 64 type: MT MCP
  L2 cache: 3072 KiB
  Speed: 800 MHz min/max: 800/3900 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 800 2: 800
  3: 803 4: 800
Info:
  Processes: 235 Uptime: 1h 14m Memory: 7.50 GiB used: 1.34 GiB (17.9%)
  Shell: bash inxi: 3.0.32
corrado@corrado-p6-dd-0311:~$ snap refresh
error: too early for operation, device not yet seeded or device model not acknowledged
corrado@corrado-p6-dd-0311:~$

[Oliver Grawert (ogra)]

> corrado@corrado-p6-dd-0311:~$ snap refresh
> error: too early for operation, device not yet seeded or device model not acknowledged

this means the system is still initializing the snaps (your machine seems to be slow at this)... as long as they are not fully seeded, the snap packages will not show up in "snap list" ... give it a bit more time.

[corrado venturini (corradoventu)]

A bit more time: i gave it more than 50 minutes..
2019/03/12 13:23:41.993249 taskrunner.go:420: DEBUG: Running task 26 on Doing: Ensure prerequisites for "gnome-calculator" are available
2019/03/12 13:24:12.045253 taskrunner.go:420: DEBUG: Running task 26 on Doing: Ensure prerequisites for "gnome-calculator" are available
2019/03/12 13:24:42.094820 taskrunner.go:420: DEBUG: Running task 26 on Doing: Ensure prerequisites for "gnome-calculator" are available
2019/03/12 13:25:12.153780 taskrunner.go:420: DEBUG: Running task 26 on Doing: Ensure prerequisites for "gnome-calculator" are available
...
2019/03/12 14:18:48.194758 taskrunner.go:420: DEBUG: Running task 26 on Doing: Ensure prerequisites for "gnome-calculator" are available
2019/03/12 14:19:18.244129 taskrunner.go:420: DEBUG: Running task 26 on Doing: Ensure prerequisites for "gnome-calculator" are available
2019/03/12 14:19:48.301740 taskrunner.go:420: DEBUG: Running task 26 on Doing: Ensure prerequisites for "gnome-calculator" are available
2019/03/12 14:20:18.348226 taskrunner.go:420: DEBUG: Running task 26 on Doing: Ensure prerequisites for "gnome-calculator" are available
2019/03/12 14:20:48.398891 taskrunner.go:420: DEBUG: Running task 26 on Doing: Ensure prerequisites for "gnome-calculator" are available
2019/03/12 14:21:18.443059 taskrunner.go:420: DEBUG: Running task 26 on Doing: Ensure prerequisites for "gnome-calculator" are available

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

I believe this is a bug that John is currently driving the investigation of on the forum on behalf of the Snapd team.

[John Lenton (chipaca)]

If you have this issue, please share the output of

snap info --verbose /var/lib/snapd/seed/snaps/* | egrep 'name|base'

thank you.

[corrado venturini (corradoventu)]

Problem disappeared with last ISO
corrado@corrado-p6-dd-0314:~$ cat /var/log/installer/media-info
Ubuntu 19.04 "Disco Dingo" - Alpha amd64 (20190314)
corrado@corrado-p6-dd-0314:~$ snap list
Name Version Rev Tracking Publisher Notes
core 16-2.37.4 6531 stable canonical✓ core
gnome-3-26-1604 3.26.0.20190228 82 stable/… canonical✓ -
gnome-calculator 3.30.1 260 stable/… canonical✓ -
gnome-characters 3.30.0 139 stable/… canonical✓ -
gnome-logs 3.30.0 45 stable/… canonical✓ -
gnome-system-monitor 3.30.0 57 stable/… canonical✓ -
gtk-common-themes 0.1-16-g2287c87 1198 stable/… canonical✓ -

[John Lenton (chipaca)]

OK, unless anybody comes up with evidence to the contrary, I'm going to say that what was happening was this:

Some isos have gone out with snaps that had `base: core18`, but without seeding `core18`. This is not supported, and will cause seeding to hang.

Unless somebody can positively point to this happening on an iso that _didn't_ have these wrongly-seeded snaps, or conversely have it not happen when the core18-based snaps were seeded, that's all there was to it.

It's been harder to debug than would've been ideal because there has been some confusion around which isos people were testing.

HTH, HAND.