Charmcraft pack on Apple Silicon fails
Metadata
Current evaluation
Pack failed on Apple Silicon because Multipass 1.9.1 could not find the 20.04 image; maintainer closed it as not a Charmcraft bug, fixed by updating to Multipass 1.9.2.
Resolution: closed not a bug
Reason: facundobatista traced the failure to Multipass 1.9.1 failing to resolve the "snapcraft:20.04" image and closed the issue on 2022-07-01 as unrelated to Charmcraft, stating it is solved in Multipass 1.9.2.
Evaluated by: mr-cal-bot
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Issue body
Hi Charmcraft team,
[Steps to reproduce]
1. Install charmcraft via homebrew
2. Install multipass
3. run `charmcraft pack`
The following error is thrown:
```
➜ charm-openidc-test-fixture git:(main) charmcraft pack
Failed to launch VM 'charmcraft-charm-openidc-test-fixture-26152800-0-0-arm64'.res=['arm64'] (may take a while the first time but it's reusable)
* Command that failed: 'multipass launch snapcraft:20.04 --name charmcraft-charm-openidc-test-fixture-26152800-0-0-arm64 --cpus 2 --mem 2G --disk 64G'
* Command exit code: 2
* Command output: b'\r \r\r \r'
* Command standard error output: b'launch failed: Unable to find an image matching "20.04". Please use `multipass find` for supported remotes and images.\n'
```
Log attached:
[charmcraft-20220628-092203.976852.log](https://github.com/canonical/charmcraft/files/8999126/charmcraft-20220628-092203.976852.log)
[Workaround]
I appreciate this is a bit of an edge case, and the workaround here is to run an x64 VM somewhere and use that, as far as I can tell,
Thanks!
Peter
Evaluation history
| Date | Model | Scores | Action | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| stealth/space-bunny-alpha | — | closed not a bug | Pack failed on Apple Silicon because Multipass 1.9.1 could not find the 20.04 image; maintainer closed it as not a Charmcraft bug, fixed by updating to Multipass 1.9.2. | |
| stealth/space-bunny-alpha | — | closed not a bug | Closed as not a Charmcraft bug: facundobatista traced the Apple Silicon launch failure to Multipass 1.9.1 not finding the 20.04 image; fixed by upgrading to Multipass 1.9.2. No charmcraft code change. | |
| stealth/space-bunny-alpha | — | closed not a bug | Resolved outside Charmcraft: Multipass 1.9.1 failed to find the Ubuntu 20.04 image on Apple Silicon; updating to Multipass 1.9.2 fixed it. | |
| qwen3.6-35b-a3b-mtp-q6 | — | — | Charmcraft pack failed on Apple Silicon because Multipass could not locate the Ubuntu 20.04 image. The root cause was a Multipass bug fixed in version 1.9.2. The report was closed as an external dependency issue, not a Charmcraft defect. | |
| qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b | — | — | Closed as not a charmcraft issue. The Apple Silicon failure was caused by Multipass 1.9.1 failing to locate the Ubuntu 20.04 image. Resolved by upgrading Multipass to version 1.9.2. Updating Multipass fixes the problem. | |
| qwen3.6-35b-a3b-mtp-q6 | — | — | Apple Silicon charmcraft pack failed due to Multipass failing to locate the Ubuntu 20.04 image. Maintainers identified this as a Multipass bug fixed in version 1.9.2. The report was closed as external to charmcraft; updating Multipass resolves the failure. |
Update history
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Related work
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Related To:
canonical/charmcraft#718
(confidence 70%)
Earlier merged fix (PR #718, commit 3e94133d/c929f310) corrected the Multipass image remote used for launching build VMs, addressing the same class of launch failure.
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Related To:
canonical/charmcraft#708
(confidence 45%)
Related macOS pack fix closed in favour of #718; same Multipass VM launch area but not the direct resolution for this arm64 report.
Related issues
| Issue | Project | State | Summary | Similarity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #708 fix "charmcraft pack" on macOS | charmcraft | closed | Closed in favor of #718, which corrected the Multipass image remote and fixed macOS packing; merged as 3e94133d (implementation c929f310). | |
| #1917 Charmcraft cannot parse a dev version build for multipass | charmcraft | open | Charmcraft pack fails on dev multipass versions like 1.15.0-dev.2929.pr661 due to invalid version parsing in craft-providers; fixed upstream and current charmcraft dependency includes the fix. |