*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1776800 ***
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1776800
** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 1776800
Unable to start snap applications if user's home directory is not /home/$USER
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1861453
Title:
The chromium-browser snap package fails to run
Status in chromium-browser package in Ubuntu:
New
Bug description:
Xubuntu 19.10
chromium-browser 79.0.3945.79-0ubuntu0.19.10.2
Transitional package - chromium-browser -> chromium snap
Chromium worked fine before the upgrade to 19.10. There has been a
transition to snap packaging.
My first attempt to launch the browser results in:
% chromium-browser
2020/01/30 11:12:47.911841 cmd_run.go:529: WARNING: XAUTHORITY environment
value is not a clean path: "/x/u/jeff/.Xauthority"
cannot perform operation: mount --rbind /home /tmp/snap.rootfs_MDsNgD//home:
Permission denied
% dmesg | grep DENIED (just showing one typical message)
[827635.380132] audit: type=1400 audit(1580411567.940:87): apparmor="DENIED"
operation="mount" info="failed flags match" error=-13
profile="/snap/core/8268/usr/lib/snapd/snap-confine"
name="/tmp/snap.rootfs_MDsNgD/home/" pid=2968 comm="snap-confine"
srcname="/x/u/" flags="rw, rbind"
The home directory is: /u/jeff
The home directory is actually resides on an external drive mounted on
/x with /u being a symlink to /x/u
% cd /
% ls -l home u
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 1 Jan 2 2015 home -> u
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Nov 30 2017 u -> x/u
%echo $XAUTHORITY
/u/jeff/.Xauthority
Applications should not care about these sorts of mounts and linkages,
but they now appear to be very sensitive to them. What needs to be
done to make this work?
BTW, I think this move to SNAP is a disaster and completely the wrong
way to go. Let's please stick with a single .deb packaging strategy
which has proven itself.
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