Small update: we have now merged a change that allows snaps to work on
system where the users' home directories are not /home/<user>/ but
/home/<some>/<path>/<user/
If you are running such a system, you are welcome to try out snapd from
our edge channel:
snap refresh --channel=latest/edge snapd
then configure the homedirs location using the command
# Real homes are located in /home/users/tom, /home/losers/dick,...
snap set system homedirs=/home/users,/home/losers
Please report back on your (mis)fortunes. :-)
If your home directories are located somewhere else (not under /home),
please subscribe to https://bugs.launchpad.net/snapd/+bug/1620771
instead.
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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
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