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cannot create transient scope: DBus error "org.freedesktop.systemd1.NoSuchUnit"

Bug #1970648 reported by Chris Johnston
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Bug Description

I am running into an issue where I'm seeing the following messages:

internal error, please report: running "juju" failed: cannot create transient scope: DBus error "org.freedesktop.systemd1.NoSuchUnit": [Unit snap.juju.juju.ad6448e6-37d3-4c51-8f69-5ace1e4decfc.scope not found.]

internal error, please report: running "kubectl" failed: cannot create transient scope: DBus error "org.freedesktop.systemd1.NoSuchUnit": [Unit snap.kubectl.kubectl.ce741755-f7d2-41c7-b131-abab3d5807a5.scope not found.]

When looking at journalctl --user the logs are:

Failed to start snap.juju.juju.a3dcecf2-4e2f-4d3a-803c-93cdcaa58c27.scope.
snap.juju.juju.bd1800e9-f465-443f-b40e-a0f47cba26bc.scope: Failed to add PIDs to scope's control group: Permission denied
snap.juju.juju.bd1800e9-f465-443f-b40e-a0f47cba26bc.scope: Failed with result 'resources'.

$ cat /etc/lsb-release
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=18.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=bionic
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS"
5.4.0-109-generic #123~18.04.1-Ubuntu

ii snapd 2.54.3+18.04.2ubuntu0.2

Revision history for this message
Anthony Kamau (ak-launchpad) wrote :

Just a few moments ago, I experienced this same error when running `kubectl` as a regular user:

```
$ kubectl get po -A
internal error, please report: running "kubectl" failed: cannot create transient scope: DBus error "org.freedesktop.systemd1.NoSuchUnit": [Unit snap.kubectl.kubectl.0c38d3ea-4559-4cc0-b754-055470be9a1f.scope not found.]
```

I don't get this error when running the command as the privileged `root` user. I've rebooted the system to no avail. How do I resolve this error? Could it be that I have an ancient server??

```
Sys Info:

$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS
Release: 18.04
Codename: bionic

Snaps:

$ snap list
Name Version Rev Tracking Publisher Notes
core 16-2.58.3 14946 latest/stable canonical✓ core
core18 20230320 2721 latest/stable canonical✓ base
kubeadm 1.26.3 2980 latest/stable canonical✓ classic
kubectl 1.26.3 2914 latest/stable canonical✓ classic
```

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