Building snap results in endless making process

[jshamg]

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Issue Details

• Electron Forge Version:
  • 6.0.0-beta.47
• Electron Version:
  • v7.1.10
• Operating System:
  • Fedora 31
• Last Known Working Electron Forge version::

Expected Behavior

Successfully building to the snap target.

Actual Behavior

Building starts and never finishes.
stuck on:
⠧ Making for target: snap - On platform: linux - For arch: x64Setting target machine to 'amd64'
Animation on the left ist still running...

To Reproduce

my @electron-forge/maker-snap is empty, because of testing (every config is listed as optional in the docs).

Additional Information

[malept]

I suspect snapcraft is trying to download a bunch of things. Can you run it with the environment variable DEBUG=electron-installer-snap:snapcraft ?

[jshamg]

I already did that sorry for not mentioning, before using this environment variable I got an error I read about it in another post here...

[jshamg]

Please help... I need the snap soon...

[malept]

This sounds like your snapcraft installation is broken somehow, if snapcraft is hanging there. I would suggest using a Docker container instead if you don't want to try to troubleshoot your snapcraft installation. For example, malept/electron-forge-container:node-10.

[jshamg]

i mean i installed snapcraft via snap, my system is really clean... how can I debug it?

[malept]

I ran DEBUG=electron-installer-snap:snapcraft npm run make in a clean Fedora VM and it prompted me to install/configure multipass. I think it would be less painful if you used a Docker container that ran Ubuntu.

[jshamg]

Yes I had that one too when I tried to snapcraft a demo snap (not via electron forge), but it wouldn't work anyways... I have no idea how docker works so I think this isn't an option for me... I will try to use a vm with Ubuntu but if that doesn't work I skip the snap package 😅 but thanks for your help!