Clarify error message #9830
Clarify error message #9830
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As a user, this error is pretty hard to figure out on its own. Attempted to clarify the error message so that the user can immediately resolve if they run into this.
| @@ -501,9 +501,9 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv) | |||
| die("setuid failed"); | |||
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| if (real_gid != 0 && (getuid() == 0 || geteuid() == 0)) | |||
| die("permanently dropping privs did not work"); | |||
| die("permanently dropping privs did not work. you must use sudo but you must NOT be logged in as root."); | |||
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Can you describe how you triggered this error?
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@bboozzoo added reproduction steps to the PR description
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@SeanColombo, I tried your reproducer on a 20.04 system and couldn't reproduce, could you maybe open a forum topic with details of like snap version and other details about this system so we can look into why this happened for you?
we don't typically like to use github to debug things like this as it's less visible to the wider community who may have other answers for you, typically only the snapd devs will look at these pr's
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Please open a forum topic at https://forum.snapcraft.io/ with details of the problem, so that we can debug it there and follow up with a PR if needed. |
As a user, this error is pretty hard to figure out on its own. Attempted to clarify the error message so that the user can immediately resolve if they run into this.
To trigger this error,
sudo su -to root, then run any command of a snap-installed program. Specific commands to reproduce (yes, I realize sudo doesn't do much as root ;) but I'm copy/pasting from tutorials):This has to be done the first time. After I've successfully installed/run certbot once as a non-root user, then it works from that point onwards even if I'm root.
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