Fixed My First Bug! 🎉 (Patreon)

Our Snap has only been live for about a week and we've already received our first bug report on Github!

Obviously bug reports aren't exactly good things but the fact that engineers are already interested enough in our work to try it out and report issues on Github is freaking awesome!

This particular bug was really strange. A dev tried our Snap and discovered that one of the services within our Snap failed to start. I looked at the logs he posted in the issue and spotted something familiar:

$ snap --version
snap    2.44.3+20.04
snapd   2.44.3+20.04
series  16
pop     20.04 <- What's this? 🤔
kernel  5.4.0-7626-generic

Luckily, I still had the iso for Pop!_OS from the Distro Delves episode so I quickly spin up a VM and test it. And for whatever reason, this bug happened on Pop!_OS but not my Ubuntu VMs.

It was a dependency chain issue - basically, one of the services inside the Snap was starting before the service it depends on was ready. Still not sure why it happened on Pop but not Ubuntu but whatever - it was an easy fix.

Working on Open Source software, let alone Snapcraft stuff, is pretty surreal and I'm still really excited about it!