I was attempting to build a new snap via 'snapcraft cleanbuild' on rev 2.29. Notables: my lxd install is an alias from another snap package providing lxd. I'm not certain if this is intended to work or if it will ever work due to it being a third party lxd package. charles@carbon:~/work/snaps/rtorrent$ snap aliases Command Alias Notes conjure-up.conjure-down conjure-down - conjure-up.juju juju - conjure-up.lxc lxc manual My test was unsuccessful via a message complaining that the command completed unsuccessfully: $ snapcraft cleanbuild --debug Starting snapcraft 2.29 from /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/snapcraft. Setting up part 'rtorrent' with plugin 'cmake' and properties {'build-packages': ['libcurl', 'libncurses5'], 'snap': [], 'source': 'https://github.com/rakshasa/rtorrent.git', 'plugin': 'cmake', 'stage': [], 'prime': []}. Connection refused; is LXD running? Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/snapcraft/internal/lxd.py", line 229, in _verify_remote check_output(['lxc', 'list', '{}:'.format(remote)]) File "/usr/lib/python3.5/subprocess.py", line 626, in check_output **kwargs).stdout File "/usr/lib/python3.5/subprocess.py", line 708, in run output=stdout, stderr=stderr) subprocess.CalledProcessError: Command '['lxc', 'list', 'local:']' returned non-zero exit status 1 The above exception was the direct cause of the following exception: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/snapcraft", line 31, in <module> snapcraft.main.main() File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/snapcraft/main.py", line 253, in main return run(args, project_options) File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/snapcraft/main.py", line 295, in run lifecycle.cleanbuild(project_options, remote=args['--remote']), File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/snapcraft/internal/lifecycle.py", line 344, in cleanbuild metadata=config.get_metadata(), remote=remote).execute() File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/snapcraft/internal/lxd.py", line 143, in __init__ container_name=container_name, remote=remote) File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/snapcraft/internal/lxd.py", line 53, in __init__ _verify_remote(remote) File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/snapcraft/internal/lxd.py", line 237, in _verify_remote '#multiple-hosts'.format(remote)) from e snapcraft.internal.errors.SnapcraftEnvironmentError: There are either no permissions or the remote 'local' does not exist. Verify the existing remotes by running `lxc remote list` To setup a new remote, follow the instructions at https://linuxcontainers.org/lxd/getting-started-cli/#multiple-hosts $ lxc list local: +---------------+---------+------+------+------------+-----------+ | NAME | STATE | IPV4 | IPV6 | TYPE | SNAPSHOTS | +---------------+---------+------+------+------------+-----------+ | juju-2bad81-0 | STOPPED | | | PERSISTENT | 0 | +---------------+---------+------+------+------------+-----------+ $ lxc remote list +-----------------+------------------------------------------+---------------+--------+--------+ | NAME | URL | PROTOCOL | PUBLIC | STATIC | +-----------------+------------------------------------------+---------------+--------+--------+ | images | https://images.linuxcontainers.org | simplestreams | YES | NO | +-----------------+------------------------------------------+---------------+--------+--------+ | local (default) | unix:// | lxd | NO | YES | +-----------------+------------------------------------------+---------------+--------+--------+ | ubuntu | https://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/releases | simplestreams | YES | YES | +-----------------+------------------------------------------+---------------+--------+--------+ | ubuntu-daily | https://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/daily | simplestreams | YES | YES | +-----------------+------------------------------------------+---------------+--------+--------+