snap totally unusable on whonix-ws

dread · August 23, 2020, 12:08pm

Hi.
I think all nodes are banned or i am wrong?

user@host:~$ snap install slack --classic
error: cannot install "slack": Post https://api.snapcraft.io/v2/snaps/refresh:
       dial tcp: lookup api.snapcraft.io on 10.152.152.10:53: dial udp
       10.152.152.10:53: connect: network is unreachable
user@host:~$ snap install slack --classic
error: cannot install "slack": Post https://api.snapcraft.io/v2/snaps/refresh:
       dial tcp: lookup api.snapcraft.io on 10.152.152.10:53: dial udp
       10.152.152.10:53: connect: network is unreachable
user@host:~$ snap install slack --classic
error: cannot install "slack": Post https://api.snapcraft.io/v2/snaps/refresh:
       dial tcp: lookup api.snapcraft.io on 10.152.152.10:53: dial udp
       10.152.152.10:53: connect: network is unreachable
user@host:~$ snap install slack --classic
error: cannot install "slack": Post https://api.snapcraft.io/v2/snaps/refresh:
       dial tcp: lookup api.snapcraft.io on 10.152.152.10:53: dial udp
       10.152.152.10:53: connect: network is unreachable
user@host:~$ snap install slack --classic
^C
user@host:~$ snap install slack --classic
error: cannot install "slack": Post https://api.snapcraft.io/v2/snaps/refresh:
       dial tcp: lookup api.snapcraft.io on 10.152.152.10:53: dial udp
       10.152.152.10:53: connect: network is unreachable
user@host:~$ snap install slack --classic
error: cannot install "slack": Post https://api.snapcraft.io/v2/snaps/refresh:
       dial tcp: lookup api.snapcraft.io on 10.152.152.10:53: dial udp
       10.152.152.10:53: connect: network is unreachable
user@host:~$ snap install slack --classic
error: cannot install "slack": Post https://api.snapcraft.io/v2/snaps/refresh:
       dial tcp: lookup api.snapcraft.io on 10.152.152.10:53: dial udp
       10.152.152.10:53: connect: network is unreachable
user@host:~$ snap install slack --classic
error: cannot install "slack": Post https://api.snapcraft.io/v2/snaps/refresh:
       dial tcp: lookup api.snapcraft.io on 10.152.152.10:53: dial udp
       10.152.152.10:53: connect: network is unreachable
user@host:~$ snap install slack --classic
error: cannot install "slack": Post https://api.snapcraft.io/v2/snaps/refresh:
       dial tcp: lookup api.snapcraft.io on 10.152.152.10:53: dial udp
       10.152.152.10:53: connect: network is unreachable
user@host:~$ snap install slack --classic
error: cannot install "slack": Post https://api.snapcraft.io/v2/snaps/refresh:
       dial tcp: lookup api.snapcraft.io on 10.152.152.10:53: dial udp
       10.152.152.10:53: connect: network is unreachable
user@host:~$ snap install slack --classic
error: unable to contact snap store
user@host:~$ snap install slack --classic
error: cannot install "slack": Post https://api.snapcraft.io/v2/snaps/refresh:
       dial tcp: lookup api.snapcraft.io on 10.152.152.10:53: dial udp
       10.152.152.10:53: connect: network is unreachable
user@host:~$ snap install slack --classic
error: cannot install "slack": Post https://api.snapcraft.io/v2/snaps/refresh:
       dial tcp: lookup api.snapcraft.io on 10.152.152.10:53: dial udp
       10.152.152.10:53: connect: network is unreachable
user@host:~$ snap install slack --classic
error: cannot install "slack": Post https://api.snapcraft.io/v2/snaps/refresh:
       dial tcp: lookup api.snapcraft.io on 10.152.152.10:53: dial udp
       10.152.152.10:53: connect: network is unreachable

Patrick · August 23, 2020, 2:50pm

Documented this issue in the wiki just now.

Install Additional Software Safely

Quote at time of writing (might change in the wiki - not here -in future):

General forum discussion about snap: Snap Store / snaps / snapd / snapcraft.io - a new software source? [archive]

Qubes-Whonix ™ issues:

Efforts to persistently install snap apps in Qubes-Whonix ™ via bind-dirs [archive] or with snap proxy settings have proven unsuccessful. This means it needs to be installed in a TemplateBasedVM on every occasion it is required. Efforts to improve this situation are most welcome, see: Wickr Me vs Qubes-Whonix Persistence [archive] and snap totally unusable on Qubes whonix-ws [archive].

Qubes TemplateVMs are non-networked by Qubes default. (APT works because of Qubes’ qrexec-based updates proxy.) Therefore snap does not run inside whonix-ws TemplateVM. The same would probably also happen in any other Qubes TempalteVMs such as for example in a Debian TempalteVM. As per Free Support Principle is recommend to make snap work in a non-Whonix based TemplateVM first such as a Debian TemplateVM before attempting to do the same inside Whonix ™.