Does not handle multipass instance being deleted
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Current evaluation
Closed without resolution. Snapcraft stalls when an externally deleted Multipass instance is not purged. No fix was implemented, indicating the issue was abandoned.
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Issue body
Snapcraft gets stuck if the multipass instance has been deleted outside of snapcraft, but not purged:
❯ SNAPCRAFT_BUILD_ENVIRONMENT_CHANNEL_SNAPCRAFT=latest/candidate snapcraft
Launching a VM.
start failed: instance "snapcraft-surl" is deleted
Use 'recover' to recover the deleted instance or 'purge' to permanently delete the instance.
stop failed: The following errors occurred:
instance "snapcraft-surl" is deleted
stop failed: The following errors occurred:
instance "snapcraft-surl" is deleted
An error occurred when trying to stop the instance with 'multipass': returned exit code 2.
Ensure that 'multipass' is setup correctly and try again.
Evaluation history
| Date | Model | Scores | Action | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b | — | — | Closed without resolution. Snapcraft stalls when an externally deleted Multipass instance is not purged. No fix was implemented, indicating the issue was abandoned. | |
| qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b |
Staleness:
98
Complexity:
35
Confidence:
85
Support Request:
5
|
close stale | Snapcraft fails to gracefully handle deleted Multipass VM instances, causing build loops and errors. Open for over 7 years with no maintainer interaction or updates. | |
| qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b |
Staleness:
98
Complexity:
35
Confidence:
85
Support Request:
10
|
close stale | Snapcraft fails to handle deleted Multipass VM instances, causing build hangs with unhandled errors. Issue remains open with no maintainer response or activity for over 7 years. | |
| qwen3.6-35b-a3b-mtp-q6 |
Staleness:
98
Complexity:
40
Confidence:
85
Support Request:
10
|
close stale | Snapcraft fails to gracefully handle externally deleted Multipass VM instances, causing build hangs. The report is over 7 years old with no maintainer interaction or updates. | |
| qwen3.6-35b-a3b-mtp-q6 |
Staleness:
95
Complexity:
30
Confidence:
85
Support Request:
10
|
close stale | Snapcraft stalls when a Multipass VM is externally deleted but not purged, lacking graceful error handling or recovery. Status remains open with zero comments and over seven years of inactivity, requiring triage. |
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Related issues
| Issue | Project | State | Summary | Similarity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1904774 Snapcraft runs multipass setup but fails | snapcraft (launchpad) | closed | Abandoned. Snapcraft failed during multipass VM cleanup after reporting a missing instance. Closed without comments or fixes. | |
| #1813979 snapcraft cleanbuild wants to install multipass but it's already installed | snapcraft (launchpad) | closed | Closed without resolution. Likely abandoned or superseded by newer snapcraft and multipass versions that resolved the detection and launch failures. | |
| #1791821 multipass should use snapcraft defined environments | snapcraft (launchpad) | closed | Closed without discussion or resolution, indicating the feature request was likely abandoned or superseded. The proposal to align multipass with snapcraft-defined build images received no further action. | |
| #1794955 snapcraft erroneously errors when deleting non-existent multipass container | snapcraft (launchpad) | open | snapcraft clean fails with 'instance does not exist' when the multipass container is already gone; reporter suggests treating it as a no-op. Open since 2018, unlabeled, no maintainer activity for ~7.9 years. | |
| #1803708 Snapcraft should detect being run inside multipass and error | snapcraft (launchpad) | closed | Rejected. Maintainers disagreed, noting users may legitimately run snapcraft inside multipass VMs. The issue was closed without implementation. | |
| #4106 Error 2 on snapcraft on linux with multipass: | snapcraft | closed | Resolved as fixed after a temporary Multipass remote image unavailability cleared. The reporter closed the issue. | |
| #1810915 snapcraft can't tell when multipass is installed but disabled | snapcraft (launchpad) | open | Snapcraft fails to detect a disabled multipass snap, prompting to install it and then erroring out. Reported against multipass 2018.12.1 / ~2019 snapcraft; untriaged, 0 comments, no labels, inactive for ~7.6 years. | |
| #1806083 snapcraft fails to locate multipass (inside a multipass session) | snapcraft (launchpad) | open | snapcraft 3.0.1 fails to detect an installed multipass when run inside a multipass VM, prompting to install and dropping the user into a shell. No maintainer activity for ~7 years; affected version is long obsolete. | |
| #5145 snapcraft fails to launch multipass instance when multipass isn't pre-installed | snapcraft | open | Snapcraft fails to launch a multipass VM with 'Remote snapcraft is unknown or unreachable' when multipass is installed on-demand. Maintainer triaged it as an image-server availability issue and linked craft-providers#211 for better error messaging; still open. | |
| #3381 multipass build provider: check if instance exists before deleting | snapcraft | merged | Merged a Snapcraft fix adding an existence check before deleting Multipass instances, preventing errors when missing. Addresses LP #1904774. Reviewers suggested extra features and warnings, but the core fix was approved and merged. |