Public bug reported: Snaps with classic confinement, like conjure-up, cannot be installed when $HOME is on NFS.
On Ubuntu Xenial server, with snapd 2.25, running conjure-up 2.2.2 fails: $ conjure-up cannot create user data directory: /home/ubuntu/snap/conjure-up/549: Permission denied $ mount | grep home node09ob28.maas:/mnt/nfs/ubuntu on /home/ubuntu type nfs4 (rw,relatime,vers=4.0,rsize=1048576,wsize=1048576,namlen=255,hard,proto=tcp,port=0,timeo=600,retrans=2,sec=sys,clientaddr=172.27.28.117,local_lock=none,addr=172.27.28.116) $ grep -i denied /var/log/syslog Aug 15 23:35:11 node09ob28 kernel: [ 902.908181] audit: type=1400 audit(1502840111.290:34): apparmor=“DENIED” operation=“sendmsg” profile="/snap/core/2462/usr/lib/snapd/snap-confine" pid=17018 comm=“snap-confine” laddr=172.27.28.117 lport=823 faddr=172.27.28.116 fport=2049 family=“inet” sock_type=“stream” protocol=6 requested_mask=“send” denied_mask=“send" Aug 15 23:35:11 node09ob28 kernel: [ 902.908200] audit: type=1400 audit(1502840111.290:35): apparmor=“DENIED” operation=“sendmsg” profile=”/snap/core/2462/usr/lib/snapd/snap-confine" pid=17018 comm=“snap-confine” laddr=172.27.28.117 lport=823 faddr=172.27.28.116 fport=2049 family=“inet” sock_type=“stream” protocol=6 requested_mask=“send” denied_mask=“send" Aug 15 23:35:11 node09ob28 kernel: [ 902.908215] audit: type=1400 audit(1502840111.290:36): apparmor=“DENIED” operation=“sendmsg” profile=”/snap/core/2462/usr/lib/snapd/snap-confine" pid=17018 comm=“snap-confine” laddr=172.27.28.117 lport=823 faddr=172.27.28.116 fport=2049 family=“inet” sock_type=“stream” protocol=6 requested_mask=“send” denied_mask=“send” NFS server configuration $ cat /etc/exports /mnt/nfs *(rw,sync,no_root_squash) ** Affects: snapd (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1713767 Title: Snaps with classic confinement and /home on NFS To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/snapd/+bug/1713767/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs