I cannot reproduce this on fully up-to-date bionic along with a stable core snap.
My system was running: zyga@t470:~$ snap version snap unknown snapd 2.31.2 series 16 ubuntu 18.04 kernel 4.15.0-12-generic The core snap was at revision 4206 (from the stable channel). -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1756793 Title: Can't run snaps on Ubuntu 18.04 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/snapd/+bug/1756793/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs