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Ubuntu: ‘Connection to the Snap Store failed’ during upgrade from Ubuntu 20 to 22


Categories: Linux

If you are upgrading from Ubuntu 20 to Ubuntu 22 using ‘do-release-upgrade’ and get a fatal error ‘Connection to the the Snap Store failed’, this may be resolved by removing the ‘lxd’ package which is a lightweight container supervisor. sudo /etc/init.d/lxd stop sudo rm -fr /var/lib/lxd sudo dpkg –force depends -P lxd; sudo dpkg –force … Ubuntu: ‘Connection to the Snap Store failed’ during upgrade from Ubuntu 20 to 22

KVM: running qemu-img info without exclusive access using force-share flag


Categories: Virtualization

By default, ‘qemu-image info’ will throw an error if it cannot get exclusive access to the disk file it is trying to read. $ sudo qemu-img info mydisk.qcow2 qemu-img: Could not open ‘mydisk.qcow2’: Failed to get shared “write” lock Is another process using the image [mydisk.qcow2]? Although it is not listed in the man page, … KVM: running qemu-img info without exclusive access using force-share flag