Robert, on that upgraded system, are you able to access the snap store
from the command line? E.g.:
sudo snap install hello-world
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1948939
Title:
chromium browser deb to snap switch kills dist-upgrade
Status in chromium-browser package in Ubuntu:
Incomplete
Bug description:
During the 16LTS to 18LTS (GUI) distribution upgrade I received a
warning that the process couldn't connect to the snap store. I
didn't have any snaps installed, so I continued with the distribution
upgrade and everything worked OK.
During the 18LTS to 20LTS (GUI) distribution upgrade I received and
accepted the same warning. As before I had no snaps installed.
However, I did have Chromium browser installed, and as part of the
distribution upgrade this tries to switch from being installed from
deb to being installed from snap. At this point the distribution
upgrade came to a complete halt. Also the desktop GUI became
unresponsive, but it was possible to switch to a TTY console with
(say) CTRL-ALT-F4, login, and execute commands.
The first time this happened I managed to recover the situation
somehow, and proceeded to a working 20LTS installation (albeit with a
few quirks). The second time it happened I was not, and ended up
with a mish-mash of 18LTS and 20LTS that wouldn't boot to the desktop.
Fortunately the second time I had made a disk image of the 18LTS
system, and was able to go back to that. I removed Chromium, and
trying the distribution upgrade again I was not issued with the snap
store warning, and the process completed uneventfully.
BTW, I tried to report this problem using ubuntu-bug, but I hit this
brick wall: https://bugs.launchpad.net/apport/+bug/1160316. Hence
the manual report.
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