Public bug reported:

[impact]

do-release-upgrade has a quirk that, if ubuntu-desktop and snapd are
installed, tries to replace installed debs with snaps.  To do this, it
first, early in the upgrade process, checks the connectivity to the snap
store.  If that fails, it notifies the user and asks if upgrade should
be aborted.  If the user says no (or if the user is upgrading in non-
interactive mode) then upgrade continues.  At the end, the upgrade tries
to replace some installed debs with snaps, even if it already knows that
it can't connect to the snap store, from the earlier connectivity check.

This results in a minor annoyance, of extra time trying to install snaps
when there is no possibility of it working, as well as 'error' messages
printed:

Installing snap gnome-3-26-1604 
error: cannot install "gnome-3-26-1604": Post 
https://api.snapcraft.io/v2/snaps/refresh: dial tcp 91.189.92.38:443: 
connect: connection refused 

Installing snap gtk-common-themes 
error: cannot install "gtk-common-themes": Post 
https://api.snapcraft.io/v2/snaps/refresh: dial tcp 91.189.92.38:443: 
connect: connection refused 

Installing snap gnome-calculator 
error: cannot install "gnome-calculator": Post 
https://api.snapcraft.io/v2/snaps/refresh: dial tcp 91.189.92.19:443: 
connect: connection refused 

Installing snap gnome-characters 
error: cannot install "gnome-characters": Post 
https://api.snapcraft.io/v2/snaps/refresh: dial tcp 91.189.92.38:443: 
connect: connection refused 

Installing snap gnome-logs 
error: cannot install "gnome-logs": Post 
https://api.snapcraft.io/v2/snaps/refresh: dial tcp 91.189.92.19:443: 
connect: connection refused 

Installing snap gnome-system-monitor 
error: cannot install "gnome-system-monitor": Post 
https://api.snapcraft.io/v2/snaps/refresh: dial tcp 91.189.92.38:443: 
connect: connection refused 


[test case]

install a xenial system in a VM and block (only) access to the snap
store, e.g:

$ virsh nwfilter-dumpxml block-snapstore 
<filter name='block-snapstore' chain='root'>
  <uuid>36dbe3e7-4085-4da8-bc9b-f56f2029431a</uuid>
  <rule action='reject' direction='inout' priority='0'>
    <ip dstipaddr='91.189.92.19'/>
  </rule>
  <rule action='reject' direction='inout' priority='0'>
    <ip dstipaddr='91.189.92.38'/>
  </rule>
  <rule action='reject' direction='inout' priority='0'>
    <ip dstipaddr='91.189.92.41'/>
  </rule>
  <rule action='reject' direction='inout' priority='0'>
    <ip dstipaddr='91.189.92.20'/>
  </rule>
  <rule action='reject' direction='inout' priority='0'>
    <ip srcipaddr='91.189.92.19'/>
  </rule>
  <rule action='reject' direction='inout' priority='0'>
    <ip srcipaddr='91.189.92.38'/>
  </rule>
  <rule action='reject' direction='inout' priority='0'>
    <ip srcipaddr='91.189.92.41'/>
  </rule>
  <rule action='reject' direction='inout' priority='0'>
    <ip srcipaddr='91.189.92.20'/>
  </rule>
</filter>

and add this inside a VM's <interface> xml:
      <filterref filter='block-snapstore'/>                             
                                                                                
                                                                                
                                       

Then in the VM, make sure to install both ubuntu-desktop and snapd, and
then run do-release-upgrade.  During the upgrade it should prompt due to
the failed connectivity to the snapstore; tell it to continue the
upgrade.  At the end, the above 'error' messages should print out, when
the snaps are attempted to be installed.

[regression potential]

any regression would likely involve incorrectly not installing snaps.

** Affects: ubuntu-release-upgrader (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: Confirmed


** Tags: sts

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  do-release-upgrade tries to install snaps even if it knows it can't
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