Problems with a snappy tour

[Idsinga, Andy S]

>>>ubuntu at localhost:~$ sudo snappy install docker
>>>docker      4 MB     [===============================================]    OK
>>>Traceback (most recent call last):
>>>  File "/usr/bin/snappy", line 9, in <module>
>>>    status = Main().__main__()
>>>  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/snappy/main.py", line 159, in __main__
>>>    return callback(args)
>>>  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/snappy/main.py", line 380, in _do_install
>>>    self._do_versions(args)
>>>  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/snappy/main.py", line 262, in
>>>_do_versions
>>>    parts = (SystemImageDataSource().versions(all) +
>>>  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/snappy/systemimage.py", line
>>>158, in versions
>>>    info = self._iface.Information()
>>>  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/dbus/proxies.py", line 145, in __call__
>>>    **keywords)
>>>  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/dbus/connection.py", line 651,
>>>in call_blocking
>>>    message, timeout)
>>>dbus.exceptions.DBusException: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply: Did
>>>not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application
>>>did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the
>>>reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was
>>>broken.

If you're behind a corp firewall & proxy this might be resolved by setting the https_proxy environment variable.   ..I got very similar errors until I realized I had forgotten to set that. (doh!)

-andyidsinga