cannot change profile for the next exec call: No such file or directory

Metadata

Project: snapcraft (launchpad)
Number: #1760514
Type: issue
State: open
Author: ~popey
Labels: —
Created: 2018-04-02 12:02 AM UTC
Updated: 2018-04-24 09:59 AM UTC
Closed: —

Current evaluation

Legacy SNAPCRAFT_CONTAINER_BUILDS LXD reruns fail after a failed build with a missing profile; snapcraft clean restores builds, but the issue remains untriaged.

Suggested action: needs triage

Reason: The report provides a repeatable failed-build, rerun, profile-error, and clean-workaround sequence, and bsutton independently reproduced it on Snapcraft 2.40.1. The only maintainer comment requests triage, and the current tree no longer contains SNAPCRAFT_CONTAINER_BUILDS, but there is no resolving commit or confirmation that all LXD paths are affected, so age alone is insufficient to close it.

Evaluated by: mr-cal-bot

Impact: 40 Quick Win: 17 Complexity: 48 Confidence: 79 Actionability: 84

Issue body

I have hit this a bunch of times recently on my 16.04 KDE Neon machine. It only happens if I set SNAPCRAFT_CONTAINER_BUILDS=1, run a build (which fails) and then re-run the build again. Here you can see the end of a failure, me re-running and it failing, then me doing a clean and re-running and it works. alan@KinkPad-K450:~/src/cointop$ snap version snap 2.32.1 snapd 2.32.1 series 16 neon 16.04 kernel 4.13.0-37-generic alan@KinkPad-K450:~/src/cointop$ snapcraft --version snapcraft, version 2.40+git3.b6ed5ac File "/snap/snapcraft/1337/lib/python3.6/site-packages/snapcraft/internal/pluginhandler/__init__.py", line 363, in build script_runner.run(scriptlet=self._part_properties.get('prepare')) File "/snap/snapcraft/1337/lib/python3.6/site-packages/snapcraft/internal/pluginhandler/_scriptlets.py", line 43, in run run([scriptlet_path], cwd=self._builddir) File "/snap/snapcraft/1337/lib/python3.6/site-packages/snapcraft/internal/common.py", line 64, in run subprocess.check_call(['/bin/sh', f.name] + cmd, **kwargs) File "/snap/snapcraft/1337/usr/lib/python3.6/subprocess.py", line 291, in check_call raise CalledProcessError(retcode, cmd) subprocess.CalledProcessError: Command '['/bin/sh', '/tmp/tmplp53fzcu', '/tmp/tmpm286qh9h']' returned non-zero exit status 128. You can anonymously report this issue to the snapcraft developers. No other data than this traceback and the version of snapcraft in use will be sent. Would you like send this error data? [y/N]: n Stopping local:snapcraft-cointop alan@KinkPad-K450:~/src/cointop$ snapcraft Using default LXD remote because SNAPCRAFT_CONTAINER_BUILDS is set to 1 Device /root/build_cointop removed from snapcraft-cointop Waiting for a network connection... Network connection established Mounting /home/alan/src/cointop into container Device /root/build_cointop added to snapcraft-cointop cannot change profile for the next exec call: No such file or directory Stopping local:snapcraft-cointop alan@KinkPad-K450:~/src/cointop$ snapcraft clean Deleting local:snapcraft-cointop Cleaning up priming area Cleaning up staging area Cleaning up parts directory alan@KinkPad-K450:~/src/cointop$ snapcraft Using default LXD remote because SNAPCRAFT_CONTAINER_BUILDS is set to 1 Creating snapcraft-cointop Device fuse added to snapcraft-cointop Waiting for a network connection... Network connection established Hit:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease Get:2 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates InRelease [102 kB] Get:3 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-backports InRelease [102 kB] Get:4 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security InRelease [102 kB] Get:5 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/universe amd64 Packages [7532 kB]

Evaluation history

Date	Model	Scores	Action	Summary
2026-10-02 07:14 PM UTC	stealth/space-bunny-alpha	Impact: 40 Quick Win: 17 Complexity: 48 Confidence: 79 Actionability: 84	needs triage	Legacy SNAPCRAFT_CONTAINER_BUILDS LXD reruns fail after a failed build with a missing profile; snapcraft clean restores builds, but the issue remains untriaged.
2026-10-02 07:13 PM UTC	stealth/space-bunny-alpha	Impact: 20 Quick Win: 12 Complexity: 25 Confidence: 86 Actionability: 82	close stale	Legacy SNAPCRAFT_CONTAINER_BUILDS reruns failed after an earlier LXD build error until snapcraft clean; the exact workflow is absent from current Snapcraft and is obsolete.
2026-09-30 08:51 PM UTC	stealth/space-bunny-alpha	Impact: 45 Quick Win: 11 Complexity: 55 Confidence: 82 Actionability: 55	needs triage	Legacy LXD builds failed on rerun after a failed build until the project container was cleaned; the obsolete SNAPCRAFT_CONTAINER_BUILDS lifecycle has since been removed and needs maintainer triage.
2026-09-24 03:12 PM UTC	qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b	Impact: 15 Quick Win: 10 Complexity: 20 Confidence: 85 Actionability: 80	close resolved	LXD exec profile error when re-running builds with SNAPCRAFT_CONTAINER_BUILDS=1. Old pylxd-based LXD provider has been replaced by craft-providers; env var deprecated.
2026-09-01 08:14 AM UTC	qwen/qwen3.8-27b	Impact: 40 Quick Win: 14 Staleness: 95 Complexity: 65 Confidence: 55 Support Request: 25	needs triage	Snapcraft 2.40 container build (SNAPCRAFT_CONTAINER_BUILDS=1) fails on re-run after a failed build with 'cannot change profile for the next exec call: No such file or directory'; a clean fixes it. Unlabeled, no maintainer response, 0 comments, ~8.4 years old.
2026-07-23 11:55 AM UTC	qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b	Staleness: 100 Complexity: 25 Confidence: 95 Support Request: 85	close stale	Reported snapcraft 2.40 error on Ubuntu 16.04 when re-running container builds. Over 8 years old, no maintainer interaction, and irrelevant to current versions.
2026-07-22 12:20 PM UTC	qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b	Staleness: 98 Complexity: 20 Confidence: 95 Support Request: 15	close stale	Snapcraft build fails on re-run with LXD container error on Ubuntu 16.04. No maintainer response in over 8 years.
2026-07-09 11:33 PM UTC	qwen3.6-35b-a3b-mtp-q6	Staleness: 98 Complexity: 25 Confidence: 92 Support Request: 15	close stale	Snapcraft container build fails on re-run with 'cannot change profile' error. Issue is over 8 years old, targets EOL Ubuntu 16.04 and Snapcraft 2.40, and has zero maintainer activity.

Update history

Date	Change
2018-04-24 09:59 AM UTC	created

Related work

Related To: snapcraft (launchpad)#1687079 (confidence 58%)
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