.NET SDK not found if installed via Snap and Snap aliases used

Issue Description

If the .NET SDK has been installed via Snap (sudo snap install dotnet-sdk) on Ubuntu 18.04, and a Snap alias has been created with sudo snap alias dotnet-sdk.dotnet dotnet as recommended in https://github.com/dotnet/core-setup/issues/4230#issuecomment-398841315, then OmniSharp can’t find the .NET SDK because dotnet --info fails with a SIGABRT when run from inside VS Code. Interestingly, dotnet --info works just fine when run from the command line.

Workaround: If instead of creating a Snap alias, I set my PATH to include /snap/dotnet-sdk/current somewhere before /snap/bin, then the dotnet --info command works and OmniSharp can find the .NET SDK as it should.

If I enable core dumps in Ubuntu, I can get a stack trace from the core dump. Unfortunately, the Snap package for dotnet-sdk does not appear to include debugging symbols so the stack trace isn’t very useful, but I’ve included it in the Logs section below anyway.

Steps to Reproduce

1. Run Ubuntu 18.04
2. sudo snap install dotnet-sdk --classic
3. sudo snap install code --classic
4. In VS Code, install the C# Extension

Expected Behavior

OmniSharp runs dotnet --info and finds the .NET SDK correctly.

Actual Behavior

.NET SDK is not found because dotnet --info exists with a SIGABRT.

Logs

OmniSharp log

(empty)

C# log

Installing C# dependencies... Platform: linux, x86_64, name=ubuntu, version=18.04

Downloading package ‘OmniSharp for Linux (x64)’ (43145 KB)… Done! Validating download… Integrity Check succeeded. Installing package ‘OmniSharp for Linux (x64)’

Downloading package ‘.NET Core Debugger (linux / x64)’ (64083 KB)… Done! Validating download… Integrity Check succeeded. Installing package ‘.NET Core Debugger (linux / x64)’

Downloading package ‘Razor Language Server (Linux / x64)’ (58328 KB)… Done! Installing package ‘Razor Language Server (Linux / x64)’

Finished

Failed to spawn ‘dotnet --info’

Stack trace

Stack trace generated by Gdb

#0  0x00007f888b78fe97 in raise () from /snap/dotnet-sdk/38/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
#1  0x00007f888b791801 in abort () from /snap/dotnet-sdk/38/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
#2  0x00007f888ae8fa23 in PROCAbort () from /snap/dotnet-sdk/38/shared/Microsoft.NETCore.App/2.2.5/libcoreclr.so
#3  0x00007f888ae8e81b in PROCEndProcess(void*, unsigned int, int) () from /snap/dotnet-sdk/38/shared/Microsoft.NETCore.App/2.2.5/libcoreclr.so
#4  0x00007f888abf7938 in UnwindManagedExceptionPass1(PAL_SEHException&, _CONTEXT*) () from /snap/dotnet-sdk/38/shared/Microsoft.NETCore.App/2.2.5/libcoreclr.so
#5  0x00007f888abf7ab3 in DispatchManagedException(PAL_SEHException&, bool) () from /snap/dotnet-sdk/38/shared/Microsoft.NETCore.App/2.2.5/libcoreclr.so
#6  0x00007f888ab7464a in IL_Throw(Object*) () from /snap/dotnet-sdk/38/shared/Microsoft.NETCore.App/2.2.5/libcoreclr.so
#7  0x00007f8812469928 in ?? ()
#8  0x0000000d00010002 in ?? ()
#9  0x0000000d00010002 in ?? ()
#10 0x0000000000000000 in ?? ()

Environment information

VSCode version: 1.34.0 C# Extension: 1.19.1

Mono Information

OmniSharp using global mono :5.20.1

Dotnet Information (actual)

A valid dotnet installation could not be found.

Dotnet Information (expected)

.NET Core SDK (reflecting any global.json): Version: 2.2.204 Commit: 8757db13ec

Runtime Environment: OS Name: ubuntu OS Version: 18.04 OS Platform: Linux RID: ubuntu.18.04-x64 Base Path: /snap/dotnet-sdk/38/sdk/2.2.204/

Host (useful for support): Version: 2.2.5 Commit: 0a3c9209c0

.NET Core SDKs installed: 2.2.204 [/snap/dotnet-sdk/38/sdk]

.NET Core runtimes installed: Microsoft.AspNetCore.All 2.2.5 [/snap/dotnet-sdk/38/shared/Microsoft.AspNetCore.All] Microsoft.AspNetCore.App 2.2.5 [/snap/dotnet-sdk/38/shared/Microsoft.AspNetCore.App] Microsoft.NETCore.App 2.2.5 [/snap/dotnet-sdk/38/shared/Microsoft.NETCore.App]

To install additional .NET Core runtimes or SDKs: https://aka.ms/dotnet-download

Visual Studio Code Extensions

Extension	Author	Version
csharp	ms-vscode	1.19.1
csharpextensions	jchannon	1.3.0
docomment	k–kato	0.1.7
Ionide-FAKE	Ionide	1.2.3
Ionide-fsharp	Ionide	3.37.0
Ionide-Paket	Ionide	1.12.0
msbuild-project-tools	tintoy	0.2.54
vscode-versionlens	pflannery	0.23.0

[nelsontkq]

For a quick fix creating a symlink at /usr/local/bin/dotnet seems to solve the issue. sudo ln -sv /snap/dotnet-sdk/current/dotnet /usr/local/bin/dotnet

[gregg-miskelly]

I am going to close this issue since it isn’t really about this extension. Note that I am adding a help link to the error message with #3507 which has specific troubleshooting steps for Snap.