Hi Jeffrey and Erik! You are being heard :-) But this is not an easy task, and the amount of work required to support the case of home directories nested somewhere deeper inside /home is very different (read: lower) than that required to support home directories located elsewhere in the system.
We are first tackling the first problem, and this bug will be closed once that part is fixed. The bug that best describe your use-case is https://bugs.launchpad.net/snappy/+bug/1620771, so I recommend you to subscribe to that one. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to chromium-browser in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1776800 Title: Unable to start snap applications if user's home directory is not /home/$USER Status in snapd: In Progress Status in chromium-browser package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in firefox package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in lxd package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Users with home directories in /home/$USER can run snap application, but users in /home/users/$USER can't. nate@WorkstationC:~$ snap --version snap 2.32.8+18.04 snapd 2.32.8+18.04 series 16 ubuntu 18.04 kernel 4.15.0-22-generic nate@WorkstationC:~$ echo $HOME /home/users/nate nate@WorkstationC:~$ which hello-world /snap/bin/hello-world nate@WorkstationC:~$ hello-world cannot create nate data directory: /home/users/nate/snap/hello-world/27: Permission denied To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/snapd/+bug/1776800/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
