After the upgrade to 5.18-db8c6f9 I can’t seem to run lxc ls as a normal user anymore – works as root though:
peter@pirx ~ » lxc ls
Error: Get "http://unix.socket/1.0": dial unix /var/lib/lxd/unix.socket: connect: no such file or directory
peter@pirx ~ » sudo lxc ls 1 ↵
+------+---------+--------------------+------+-----------------+-----------+
| NAME | STATE | IPV4 | IPV6 | TYPE | SNAPSHOTS |
+------+---------+--------------------+------+-----------------+-----------+
| ed-0 | RUNNING | 10.0.8.58 (enp5s0) | | VIRTUAL-MACHINE | 0 |
+------+---------+--------------------+------+-----------------+-----------+
I tried downgrading to 5.17/stable but that didn’t change the behaviour
Any hints much appreciated, happy to provide more info if it helps
tomp
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Hi,
What OS version are you running on?
tomp
3
Please can you show the output of groups peter
Here you go:
peter@pirx ~ » groups
peter adm disk cdrom sudo dip plugdev kvm lpadmin lxd sambashare libvirt docker microk8s
peter@pirx ~ » snap version
snap 2.60.3
snapd 2.60.3
series 16
ubuntu 22.04
kernel 6.2.0-34-generic
peter@pirx ~ » lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS
Release: 22.04
Codename: jammy
cheers!
tomp
5
What do you see for this command:
sudo ls /var/snap/lxd/common/lxd/unix.socket -ls
0 srw-rw---- 1 root lxd 0 Oct 6 09:09 /var/snap/lxd/common/lxd/unix.socket
Seems similar
peter@pirx ~ » sudo ls /var/snap/lxd/common/lxd/unix.socket -ls 1 ↵
0 srw-rw---- 1 root lxd 0 Oct 5 19:10 /var/snap/lxd/common/lxd/unix.socket
tomp
7
This seems strange. Its not trying to use the snap.
Do you have a custom lxc binary in your path perhaps?
D’oh indeed I built lxd from source and it did place an ~/bin/lxc – the (coincidental) snap upgrade served as a great red herring 
Sorry for the noise
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Thanks @tomp for the help 
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