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System Details: Upgrade system: Ubuntu 18.04.04 - 19.10 - 20.04

I am not able to bring up snap-store and when I am trying to fire from terminal, it shows following error on the same.

:~$ snap-store cannot perform operation: mount --rbind /dev /tmp/snap.rootfs_8k8wWU//dev: No such file or directory

Can someone throw light on this issue?

Ps: Does 20.04 upgrade is buggy?

Sudhir
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    If you had done a fresh install it would work ok. As is, (upgrades) even if it started would likely be deficient. You could try sudo snap remove snap-store. Then in ~/snap delete the snap-store folder if there. Then install the beta version, it may work ok.. sudo snap install snap-store --beta See here, comments 114,115 https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/is-ubuntu-software-going-to-be-remove-for-snap-snap-store/14542/115 – doug Apr 27 '20 at 05:43
  • Thank you Doug! Appreciate your response. Unfortunately, it didnt worked.

    snap-store removed r:~$ sudo rm -r ~/snap/ r:~$ sudo snap install snap-store --beta snap-store (beta) 3.36.0-75-g02a9109 from Canonical✓ installed

    :~$ snap-store cannot perform operation: mount --rbind /dev /tmp/snap.rootfs_GvnWs9//dev: No such file or directory

     – Sudhir Apr 27 '20 at 06:00
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    As it turns out there is a convoluted command to get the 20.04 release version of snap-store. Though that doesn't seem to be your issue.., can you install any snap?? If not maybe remove then re-install snapd & start over. The command to change existing is sudo snap refresh snap-store --channel=latest/stable/ubuntu-20.04 , the command for a fresh install of snap-store is the same, just replace refresh with install. At some future point they''ll update latestest/stable to this version so above command isn't needed. – doug Apr 27 '20 at 17:47
  • Thank you so much for your comments and some pointers on the same. Still looks buggy(sluggish in accessing). As you said, will wait for the stable version. Thanks once again! – Sudhir Apr 29 '20 at 04:59
  • I found that snap store is broken on 20.04, even if you got it to work, its software keep crashing and there are a lot of packaging issues, better download the package from its source than using the snap store. – shamaseen Sep 08 '21 at 15:27

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Following things done to restore snap-store, but still looks buggy.

  1. Uninstall snapd and snap-store
  2. Install snapd and snap-store
  3. Update existing candidate sudo snap refresh snap-store --channel=latest/stable/ubuntu-20.04 (Thank you @doug for the steps)

I could get back snap-store on Ubuntu 20.04

Sudhir
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