This has been fixed long ago, actually following the advice from Adam above to properly purge lsb-release from the images (in live- build/hooks/600-no-debian.binary).
** Changed in: livecd-rootfs (Ubuntu) Status: Fix Committed => Fix Released ** Changed in: snappy Status: Fix Committed => Fix Released -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Yahoo! Engineering Team, which is subscribed to cloud-init. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1619420 Title: snappy removal of dpkg-query breaks lsb_release --all Status in cloud-init: New Status in Snappy: Fix Released Status in livecd-rootfs package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Bug description: root@localhost:~# lsb_release --all Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/lsb_release", line 95, in <module> main() File "/usr/bin/lsb_release", line 62, in main verinfo = lsb_release.check_modules_installed() File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/lsb_release.py", line 136, in check_modules_installed close_fds=True).communicate()[0].decode('utf-8') File "/usr/lib/python3.5/subprocess.py", line 947, in __init__ restore_signals, start_new_session) File "/usr/lib/python3.5/subprocess.py", line 1551, in _execute_child raise child_exception_type(errno_num, err_msg) FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'dpkg-query' cloud-init collects distro information via lsb_release --all To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/cloud-init/+bug/1619420/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~yahoo-eng-team Post to : yahoo-eng-team@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~yahoo-eng-team More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp