need help with freedomotic snappy app

Fri May 22 16:50:23 UTC 2015

That should be writeable if the app is running as root; otherwise you
want SNAP_APP_USER_DATA_PATH.

On 22 May 2015 at 17:18,  <mauro at freedomotic.com> wrote:
> Hi John
> with your tip I can install and run my package.
> But there is another problem. My app has a dir with some files that must
> be modified. Install directory is read-only so I tried to copy this folder
> to $SNAP_APP_DATA_PATH.
> The operation fails because "cp can't create any dir on
> $SNAP_APP_DATA_PATH (Permission denied)".
> Should this directory be writable?
>
> I'm doing exactly
>
> appdir=$SNAP_APP_PATH
> datadir=$SNAP_APP_DATA_PATH
> cd $appdir
> export JAVA_HOME="$appdir/jre"
> cp -r ${appdir}/freedomotic/plugins ${datadir}
> cp -r ${appdir}/freedomotic/data ${datadir}
>
> Any idea?
>
> Thanks
>
>
> On Fri, May 22, 2015 8:27 am, John Lenton wrote:
>> erm. sudo !!
>>
>> ;-)
>>
>>
>> On 22 May 2015 at 14:27, John Lenton <john.lenton at canonical.com> wrote:
>>
>>> there's a bug in (i think) webdm, which ends up with /tmp/snaps created
>>> with the wrong permissions.
>>>
>>> There's a fix in progress, but meanwhile
>>>
>>>
>>> chmod 01777 /tmp/snaps
>>>
>>> should get you unblocked.
>>>
>>> On 21 May 2015 at 17:32,  <mauro at freedomotic.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi again
>>>> I got that my package is installed as sideload because it's not
>>>> downloaded from Ubuntu store. I tried to install hello-world from the
>>>> store but when I execute hello-world.env I have the same permission
>>>> error
>>>>
>>>> (RaspberryPi2)ubuntu at localhost:~$ sudo snappy install
>>>> --allow-unauthenticated freedomotic_5.6.0_armhf.snap
>>>> Installing freedomotic_5.6.0_armhf.snap
>>>> 2015/05/21 16:09:58 Signature check failed, but installing anyway as
>>>> requested Name        Date       Version Developer
>>>> ubuntu-core 2015-04-23 2       ubuntu freedomotic 2015-05-21 5.6.0
>>>> sideload webdm       2015-05-19 0.6.1 pi2         2015-05-19 0.12
>>>> (RaspberryPi2)ubuntu at localhost:~$ freedomotic.start
>>>> mkdir: cannot create directory â/tmp/snaps/freedomotic.sideloadâ:
>>>> Permission denied
>>>> (RaspberryPi2)ubuntu at localhost:/tmp/snaps$ sudo snappy install
>>>> hello-world Installing hello-world
>>>> Starting download of hello-world
>>>> 21.33 KB / 21.33 KB [=====================================] 100.00 %
>>>> 48.74
>>>> KB/s
>>>> Done
>>>> Name        Date       Version Developer
>>>> ubuntu-core 2015-04-23 2       ubuntu freedomotic 2015-05-21 5.6.0
>>>> sideload hello-world 2015-05-21 1.0.15  canonical webdm
>>>> 2015-05-19 0.6.1
>>>> pi2         2015-05-19 0.12 (RaspberryPi2)ubuntu at localhost:/tmp/snaps$
>>>> hello-world.env mkdir: cannot create directory
>>>> â/tmp/snaps/hello-world.canonicalâ:
>>>> Permission denied
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Thanks
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, May 21, 2015 2:30 am, mauro at freedomotic.com wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi Sergio
>>>>> I tried with your image. The package is installed but under
>>>>> freedomotic.sideload in /apps not freedomotic. When I execute
>>>>> freedomotic.start there is a problem with mkdir. In attachment a
>>>>> screenshot.
>>>>>
>>>>> Maybe I'm missing something, but I don't know. The package works on
>>>>>  beaglebone as reported by Jamie.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks
>>>>> Mauro
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Wed, May 20, 2015 2:49 pm, mauro at freedomotic.com wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi Sergio
>>>>>> I'm using the image in
>>>>>> http://people.canonical.com/~lool/pi2-device-and-oem/ as suggested
>>>>>> on Ubuntu site.
>>>>>> I'll try your image and let you know.
>>>>>> It should be better to have the "last updated" version on
>>>>>> https://developer.ubuntu.com/en/snappy/start/ to avoid confusion
>>>>>> for new users. On Raspberry Pi official site there is another
>>>>>> image very outdated (february 2015)
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks Sergio
>>>>>> Have a nice evening
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Wed, May 20, 2015 1:07 pm, Sergio Schvezov wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 12:49:54PM -0500, Jamie Strandboge
>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On 05/20/2015 12:29 PM, mauro at freedomotic.com wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Hi Jamie
>>>>>>>>> after some reboots the package has been installed. But it
>>>>>>>>> can't start because it doesn't found freedomotic_start_5.6.0
>>>>>>>>> profile (apparmor). I
>>>>>>>>> created a package based on your suggestion. There is another
>>>>>>>>>  strange thing: the available executable is
>>>>>>>>> "start.freedomotic" not
>>>>>>>>> "freedomotic.start" as it should be(the same in your test).
>>>>>>>>> I attached a screenshot to show log messages.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I think this gets back to needing Loic to comment since
>>>>>>>> "start.freedomotic"
>>>>>>>> indicates your RaspberryPi2 image is out of date and doesn't
>>>>>>>> seem to be updating.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Are you using an official image on the site? Indeed the image
>>>>>>> needs updating there. I have a similar one[1] here built from
>>>>>>> the latest stable 15.04
>>>>>>> http://people.canonical.com/~sergiusens/snappy/pi2/ in
>>>>>>> case you want to quickly try it out.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Cheers
>>>>>>> Sergio
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> [1] with the same device tarball and a somewhat modified oem
>>>>>>> package with webdm preinstalled
>>>>>>>
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