Comment 4 for bug 1843589

aborting it stops the process but running the snap still gives the same
error

cannot locate base snap core: No such file or directory

And trying to enable the snap via sudo snap enable core gives the following
output

error: snap "core" has "auto-refresh" change in progress

It looks like the abort might not have finished because it is still listed
as not read in snap tasks

Status Spawn Ready Summary
Undo yesterday at 19:52 EDT yesterday at 19:52 EDT Ensure
prerequisites for "core" are available
Undo yesterday at 19:52 EDT yesterday at 19:52 EDT Download snap
"core" (7713) from channel "stable"
Undo yesterday at 19:52 EDT yesterday at 19:52 EDT Fetch and check
assertions for snap "core" (7713)
Undo yesterday at 19:52 EDT yesterday at 19:52 EDT Mount snap "core"
(7713)
Undo yesterday at 19:52 EDT yesterday at 19:52 EDT Run pre-refresh
hook of "core" snap if present
Undo yesterday at 19:52 EDT yesterday at 19:52 EDT Stop snap "core"
services
Undo yesterday at 19:52 EDT yesterday at 19:52 EDT Remove aliases for
snap "core"
Undo yesterday at 19:52 EDT yesterday at 19:52 EDT Make current
revision for snap "core" unavailable
Abort yesterday at 19:52 EDT - Copy snap "core"
data
Hold yesterday at 19:52 EDT today at 10:13 EDT Setup snap "core"
(7713) security profiles
Hold yesterday at 19:52 EDT today at 10:13 EDT Make snap "core"
(7713) available to the system
Hold yesterday at 19:52 EDT today at 10:13 EDT Automatically
connect eligible plugs and slots of snap "core"
Hold yesterday at 19:52 EDT today at 10:13 EDT Set automatic
aliases for snap "core"
Hold yesterday at 19:52 EDT today at 10:13 EDT Setup snap "core"
aliases
Hold yesterday at 19:52 EDT today at 10:13 EDT Run post-refresh
hook of "core" snap if present
Hold yesterday at 19:52 EDT today at 10:13 EDT Start snap "core"
(7713) services
Hold yesterday at 19:52 EDT today at 10:13 EDT Clean up "core"
(7713) install
Hold yesterday at 19:52 EDT today at 10:13 EDT Run configure hook
of "core" snap if present
Hold yesterday at 19:52 EDT today at 10:13 EDT Consider re-refresh
of "core"

On Wed, Sep 11, 2019 at 10:10 AM John Lenton <email address hidden>
wrote:

> What happens if you 'snap abort 4'?
>
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1843589
>
> Title:
> core snap stuck refreshing
>
> Status in Snappy:
> New
>
> Bug description:
> All of our snaps stopped working overnight, attempting to run the snap
> gives the following error:
>
> cannot locate base snap core: No such file or directory
>
> Running snap changes shows that 12 hours ago an auto-refresh started
> for the core snap that is still in progress which seems like a really
> long time.
>
> output of "snap changes":
>
> ID Status Spawn Ready Summary
> 1 Done yesterday at 10:16 EDT yesterday at 10:16 EDT Initialize
> system state
> 2 Done yesterday at 10:17 EDT yesterday at 10:17 EDT Install
> "ftptransfer" snap from file "ftptransfer_1.0_amd64.snap"
> 3 Done yesterday at 10:17 EDT yesterday at 10:17 EDT Initialize
> device
> 4 Doing yesterday at 19:52 EDT -
> Auto-refresh snap "core"
>
> Running "snap tasks --last=auto-refresh" gives the following output:
> Status Spawn Ready Summary
> Done yesterday at 19:52 EDT yesterday at 19:52 EDT Ensure
> prerequisites for "core" are available
> Done yesterday at 19:52 EDT yesterday at 19:52 EDT Download snap
> "core" (7713) from channel "stable"
> Done yesterday at 19:52 EDT yesterday at 19:52 EDT Fetch and check
> assertions for snap "core" (7713)
> Done yesterday at 19:52 EDT yesterday at 19:52 EDT Mount snap
> "core" (7713)
> Done yesterday at 19:52 EDT yesterday at 19:52 EDT Run pre-refresh
> hook of "core" snap if present
> Done yesterday at 19:52 EDT yesterday at 19:52 EDT Stop snap "core"
> services
> Done yesterday at 19:52 EDT yesterday at 19:52 EDT Remove aliases
> for snap "core"
> Done yesterday at 19:52 EDT yesterday at 19:52 EDT Make current
> revision for snap "core" unavailable
> Doing yesterday at 19:52 EDT - Copy snap "core"
> data
> Do yesterday at 19:52 EDT - Setup snap
> "core" (7713) security profiles
> Do yesterday at 19:52 EDT - Make snap "core"
> (7713) available to the system
> Do yesterday at 19:52 EDT - Automatically
> connect eligible plugs and slots of snap "core"
> Do yesterday at 19:52 EDT - Set automatic
> aliases for snap "core"
> Do yesterday at 19:52 EDT - Setup snap
> "core" aliases
> Do yesterday at 19:52 EDT - Run post-refresh
> hook of "core" snap if present
> Do yesterday at 19:52 EDT - Start snap
> "core" (7713) services
> Do yesterday at 19:52 EDT - Clean up "core"
> (7713) install
> Do yesterday at 19:52 EDT - Run configure
> hook of "core" snap if present
> Doing yesterday at 19:52 EDT - Consider
> re-refresh of "core"
>
> I'm not low on space on the hard disk I have roughly 110GB free
>
> This is a virtual machine running on hyperv
>
> Here is the output from snap --version
>
> snap 2.40
> snapd 2.40
> series 16
> ubuntu 16.04
> kernel 4.4.0-157-generic
>
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