snapd shows up as unavailable inside WSL

[kgkoutis]

cmd /c ver

Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.22621.819]

wsl --status

Default Distribution: Ubuntu
Default Version: 2

Did the problem occur during installation?

• Yes

What happened?

Just after installing the Ubuntu image and configuring wsl.conf to allow systemd=true on boot, and following the steps here snap version shows snapd as unavailable

What was expected?

snapd should be read as the version 2.57.5+git955.g8ac464e (beta version)

Steps to reproduce

1. Enable systemd support on WSL2 /etc/wsl.conf

[boot]
systemd=true

2. Run these steps

$ sudo apt -y remove snapd --purge # This is the destructive action
$ sudo apt install -y snapd=2.55.3+22.04
$ sudo snap install snapd --beta   # Should install snapd (beta) 2.57.5+git955.g8ac464e
$ sudo snap refresh                # Validation: should not print the same as before
$ sudo apt upgrade snapd          # No need to stay in old version

3. Verify that the version is not shown by

sudo snap version

Additional information

wsl --version

WSL version: 1.0.0.0
Kernel version: 5.15.74.2
WSLg version: 1.0.47
MSRDC version: 1.2.3575
Direct3D version: 1.606.4
DXCore version: 10.0.25131.1002-220531-1700.rs-onecore-base2-hyp
Windows version: 10.0.22621.819

cat /etc/wsl.conf

[boot]
systemd=true

---

cat %HOMEPATH%\.wslconfig

[wsl2]
memory=2GB

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Additional screenshot

[kgkoutis]

@EduardGomezEscandell, as mentioned here, we can continue the discussion on this ticket.

[EduardGomezEscandell]

For the sake of completion, this info is also relevant:

systemctl is-system-running shows degraded and systemctl --failed shows systemd-sysusers.service failing

-- from #299 (comment)

[EduardGomezEscandell]

Not sure what may be happening here, so let's try some stuff:

First of all, I see you're trying to follow these steps here #299 (comment). This is no longer necessary or useful. Simply do:

sudo apt -y update
sudo apt -y upgrade

Then reoboot the distro from powershell:

wsl --terminate Ubuntu

Print some more info to see if it helps.

systemctl status snapd
journalctl -b 1 -xeu snapd --no-pager

Some snaps still don't work (we're working on this :P), it may be the case with microk8s. Try to install a simpler one such as nvim. This'll probably fail but let's make it sure.

snap install nvim
snap run nvim --version

If you want to give up, you also have that option. Make a backup of all files you want to keep and uninstall the distro with wsl --unregister Ubuntu. Then you can re-install with ubuntu.exe.

[kgkoutis]

@EduardGomezEscandell as expected:

For systemctl status snapd

And for journalctl -b 1 -xeu snapd --no-pager

And finally for nvim

[elcf]

I'm having the same issue as here, word for word. The only differences is on mine:
WSL version: 1.0.3.0
Kernel version: 5.15.79.1
WSLg version: 1.0.47
MSRDC version: 1.2.3575
Direct3D version: 1.606.4
DXCore version: 10.0.25131.1002-220531-1700.rs-onecore-base2-hyp
Windows version: 10.0.22621.963

No %HOMEPATH%.wslconfig file.

snap version returns:
snap 2.57.6
snapd unavailable
series 16
Windows Subsystem for Linux -
kernel 5.15.79.1-microsoft-standard-WSL2 (amd64)

EDIT:
After a sudo snap refresh, I was able to run sudo snap install firefox. However, snap version still shows snapd unavailable.

[mwoodpatrick]

snap appears to be working for me:

sudo snap install firefox
snap "firefox" is already installed, see 'snap help refresh'
mwoodpatrick@westie-k0s:~$ sudo snap  refresh firefox
snap "firefox" has no updates available

systemctl says it's running:

sudo systemctl status snapd
● snapd.service - Snap Daemon
     Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/snapd.service; enabled; preset: enabled)
     Active: active (running) since Sat 2023-02-25 06:49:52 PST; 35min ago
TriggeredBy: ● snapd.socket
   Main PID: 323 (snapd)
      Tasks: 22 (limit: 38340)
     Memory: 93.1M
     CGroup: /system.slice/snapd.service
             └─323 /usr/lib/snapd/snapd

Feb 25 06:49:49 mlwphpenvy360 systemd[1]: Starting Snap Daemon...
Feb 25 06:49:51 mlwphpenvy360 snapd[323]: overlord.go:268: Acquiring state lock file
Feb 25 06:49:51 mlwphpenvy360 snapd[323]: overlord.go:273: Acquired state lock file
Feb 25 06:49:52 mlwphpenvy360 snapd[323]: daemon.go:247: started snapd/2.58.2 (series 16; classic; devmode; wsl) ubuntu/22.10 (amd>
Feb 25 06:49:52 mlwphpenvy360 snapd[323]: daemon.go:340: adjusting startup timeout by 1m5s (pessimistic estimate of 30s plus 5s pe>
Feb 25 06:49:52 mlwphpenvy360 snapd[323]: backends.go:58: AppArmor status: apparmor not enabled
Feb 25 06:49:52 mlwphpenvy360 systemd[1]: Started Snap Daemon.
Feb 25 07:20:30 mlwphpenvy360 snapd[323]: api_snaps.go:366: Installing snap "nvim" revision unset
Feb 25 07:22:26 mlwphpenvy360 snapd[323]: api_snaps.go:366: Installing snap "firefox" revision unset
Feb 25 07:23:06 mlwphpenvy360 snapd[323]: api_snaps.go:366: Installing snap "firefox" revision unset

However, I still see snap version reporting snapd is unavailable:

sudo snap version
snap                         2.58.2
snapd                        unavailable
series                       16
Windows Subsystem for Linux  -
kernel                       5.15.90.1-microsoft-standard-WSL2 (amd64)

My WSL version command reports:

wsl.exe --version
WSL version: 1.1.3.0
Kernel version: 5.15.90.1
WSLg version: 1.0.49
MSRDC version: 1.2.3770
Direct3D version: 1.608.2-61064218
DXCore version: 10.0.25131.1002-220531-1700.rs-onecore-base2-hyp
Windows version: 10.0.22623.1325