diff --git a/scripts/container-manager.sh b/scripts/container-manager.sh
index b67d614..ce693af 100755
--- a/scripts/container-manager.sh
+++ b/scripts/container-manager.sh
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-#!/bin/sh
+#!/bin/bash
 set -x
 
 # We need to put the rootfs somewhere where we can modify some
@@ -7,7 +7,6 @@ set -x
 # rootfs.
 
 DATA_PATH=$SNAP_COMMON/
-ROOTFS_PATH=$DATA_PATH/rootfs
 ANDROID_IMG=$SNAP/android.img
 
 if [ "$(id -u)" != 0 ]; then
@@ -15,14 +14,14 @@ if [ "$(id -u)" != 0 ]; then
 	exit 1
 fi
 
-if [ ! -e $ANDROID_IMG ]; then
+if [ ! -e "$ANDROID_IMG" ]; then
 	echo "ERROR: android image does not exist"
 	exit 1
 fi
 
-if [ "$SNAP_ARCH" == "amd64" ]; then
+if [ "$SNAP_ARCH" = "amd64" ]; then
 	ARCH="x86_64-linux-gnu"
-elif [ "$SNAP_ARCH" == "armhf" ]; then
+elif [ "$SNAP_ARCH" = "armhf" ]; then
 	ARCH="arm-linux-gnueabihf"
 else
 	ARCH="$SNAP_ARCH-linux-gnu"
@@ -32,11 +31,11 @@ start() {
 	# Make sure our setup path for the container rootfs
 	# is present as lxc is statically configured for
 	# this path.
-	mkdir -p $SNAP_COMMON/lxc
+	mkdir -p "$SNAP_COMMON/lxc"
 
 	# We start the bridge here as long as a oneshot service unit is not
 	# possible. See snapcraft.yaml for further details.
-	$SNAP/bin/anbox-bridge.sh start
+	"$SNAP"/bin/anbox-bridge.sh start
 
 	# Ensure FUSE support for user namespaces is enabled
 	echo Y | tee /sys/module/fuse/parameters/userns_mounts || echo "WARNING: kernel doesn't support fuse in user namespaces"
@@ -49,20 +48,22 @@ start() {
 	fi
 
 	# liblxc.so.1 is in $SNAP/lib
-	export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:$SNAP/liblxc
+	export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:$SNAP/liblxc"
 
 	# For unknown reason we got bug reports that the container manager failed to start
 	# because it cannot find libboost_log.so.1.58.0 To mitigate this we're adding the
 	# lib directory as explicit search target here.
-	export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:$SNAP/usr/lib/$ARCH
+	export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:$SNAP/usr/lib/$ARCH"
 
 	if [ -d /sys/kernel/security/apparmor ] ; then
 		# Load the profile for our Android container
-		$SNAP/sbin/apparmor_parser -r $SNAP/apparmor/anbox-container.aa
+		"$SNAP"/sbin/apparmor_parser -r "$SNAP"/apparmor/anbox-container.aa
 	fi
 
-	if [ -e "$SNAP_COMMON"/.enable_debug ]; then
+	enable_debug="$(snapctl get debug.enable)"
+	if [ "$enable_debug" = true ]; then
 		export ANBOX_LOG_LEVEL=debug
+		export LD_DEBUG=libs
 	fi
 
 	EXTRA_ARGS=
@@ -71,20 +72,20 @@ start() {
 		EXTRA_ARGS="$EXTRA_ARGS --use-rootfs-overlay"
 	fi
 
-	privileged_container="$(snapctl get container.privileged)"
-	if [ "$privileged_container" = true ]; then
+	enable_privileged_container="$(snapctl get container.privileged)"
+	if [ "$enable_privileged_container" = true ]; then
 		EXTRA_ARGS="$EXTRA_ARGS --privileged"
 	fi
 
-	exec $AA_EXEC $SNAP/bin/anbox-wrapper.sh container-manager \
+	exec "$AA_EXEC" "$SNAP"/bin/anbox-wrapper.sh container-manager \
 		"$EXTRA_ARGS" \
-		--data-path=$DATA_PATH \
-		--android-image=$ANDROID_IMG \
+		--data-path="$DATA_PATH" \
+		--android-image="$ANDROID_IMG" \
 		--daemon
 }
 
 stop() {
-	$SNAP/bin/anbox-bridge.sh stop
+	"$SNAP"/bin/anbox-bridge.sh stop
 }
 
 case "$1" in
diff --git a/scripts/snap-wrapper.sh b/scripts/snap-wrapper.sh
index 60877db..061c165 100755
--- a/scripts/snap-wrapper.sh
+++ b/scripts/snap-wrapper.sh
@@ -29,7 +29,8 @@ export XDG_DATA_HOME="$SNAP_USER_COMMON/app-data"
 # configured but the actual EGL implementation is missing.
 export __EGL_VENDOR_LIBRARY_DIRS="$SNAP/glvnd"
 
-if [ -e "$SNAP_COMMON"/.enable_debug ]; then
+enable_debug="$(snapctl get debug.enable)"
+if [ "$enable_debug" = true ]; then
 	export ANBOX_LOG_LEVEL=debug
 fi
 
@@ -37,4 +38,4 @@ if [ "$(snapctl get software-rendering.enable)" = true ]; then
 	export ANBOX_FORCE_SOFTWARE_RENDERING=true
 fi
 
-exec $SNAP/usr/bin/anbox $@
+exec "$SNAP"/usr/bin/anbox "$@"
diff --git a/snap/hooks/configure b/snap/hooks/configure
index 89dea03..0677cf6 100755
--- a/snap/hooks/configure
+++ b/snap/hooks/configure
@@ -1,9 +1,7 @@
 #!/bin/sh
 
-if [ "$(snapctl get debug.enable)" = true ]; then
-    touch "$SNAP_COMMON"/.enable_debug
-else
-    rm -f "$SNAP_COMMON"/.enable_debug
-fi
+# We need to have something for snapd in place in order to
+# allow configuration options for our snap even if the items
+# are read via snapctl elsewhere in the code.
 
 exit 0