Cannot install lxd snap in WSL

I can’t seem to get the LXD snap to install; it fails repeatedly at the install hook stage, with the following message:

$ sudo snap install lxd
error: cannot perform the following tasks:
- Run install hook of "lxd" snap if present (run hook "install": dropping privs did not work: No data available)
[1]    2885 exit 1     sudo snap install lxd

I’ve not seen this problem on any other snaps thus far. I’ve also done various searches for this error, but so far, no joy in finding things that could be relevant to this case. Any thoughts on where I should be looking for the problem?

Versions as follows:

$ snap --version
snap    2.39.3
snapd   2.39.3
series  16
debian  10
kernel  4.19.52-microsoft-custom-g7fec2bd4a7fd

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