LXD ... Error: Failed to connect to local LXD

alexxtasi

Hi all !
I installed lxd from Software package manager and it's in version 4.23.
Tried to just create a container and test my knowledge running lxc launch images:alpine/edge alpine, but this error came up:

Error: Get "http://unix.socket/1.0": dial unix /var/lib/lxd/unix.socket: connect: no such file or directory

After that I followed lxd's documentation an found out I have to:

add me as a user in lxd group with sudo usermod -a -G lxd $(whoami)
set the initial configuration with sudo lxd init

after the last command this error comes up:

Error: Failed to connect to local LXD: Get "http://unix.socket/1.0": dial unix /var/lib/lxd/unix.socket: connect: no such file or directory

any suggestions ?

clauded

alexxtasi have you tried rebooting?

ReillyBrogan

Did you make sure to start the lxd services? Also, I recently updated the LXC stack but it hasn't yet made it to the stable channel yet. In the coming sync you should see all the latest versions of lxc, lxcfs, and lxd so it's possible that you're seeing an issue that's been fixed in an update.

alexxtasi

Forgive my ignorance, but in the lxd documentation there is no mention about starting a service (actually it olny talks about ubuntu and snap installation !!).

So at the end of all my tests, it seems that I only run:

sudo eopkg install lxd
sudo usermod -a -G lxd $(whoami)
sudo lxd init                                            # fails-1
lxc launch images:alpine/edge alpine                     # fails-2

fail-1: Error: Failed to connect to local LXD: Get "http://unix.socket/1.0": dial unix /var/lib/lxd/unix.socket: connect: no such file or directory
fail-2: Error: Get "http://unix.socket/1.0": dial unix /var/lib/lxd/unix.socket: connect: no such file or directory

Do I miss any commands here not mentioned in the lxd documentation ?

regards

ReillyBrogan

What does sudo systemctl status lxd say?

alexxtasi

@clauded : rebooting the system did nothing !

And @clauded and also @ReillyBrogan, I didn't think of systemd services since lxd's documentation did not mention any (my excuse 🙂 ).

After the reboot it's still :

sudo systemctl status lxd
○ lxd.service - LXD Container Hypervisor
     Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/lxd.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
     Active: inactive (dead)
TriggeredBy: ○ lxd.socket
       Docs: man:lxd(1)

What I did was enable the service:

sudo systemctl enable lxd
sudo systemctl status lxd
○ lxd.service - LXD Container Hypervisor
     Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/lxd.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
     Active: inactive (dead)
TriggeredBy: ○ lxd.socket
       Docs: man:lxd(1)

Then reboot again, run sudo lxd init and only after that everything was running properly !

Thank you both