*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1849371 ***
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1849371
Thanks Olivier,
I could imagine that you'll get several other bug reports where people
do not see how the underlying problem relates to "Cannot run chromium as
user www-data because home directory is /var/www" - but I guess the
issue is the same.
Btw, I've been using Linux for over 25 years and I don't understand the
quote you mention and why snapd would be chosen to manage standard
packages, if it (apparently) is broken (at least somebody is working on
a fix, according to "Zygmunt's quote", mentioning "_for now_ has no
workaround"). Home directories commonly are mounted (at least in
professional environments) and quite commonly linked into /home/, and
there never has been any problem with this, to the contrary, it solves
many a headache (until now, as it seems). Feel free to send me back to
old-fart-country where I came from, I'm just bothered by update-routines
that break (standard!) environments.
If snap is broken and cannot deal with standard setups (this much I
understand from the other bug and what I find in relation to "Zygmunt's
quote"), may be it should be fixed before being included in the handling
of standard packages?
OTOH, may be Ubuntu doesn't target professional environments. The
solution of course is fine if the target audience are people who setup
every new laptop from scratch and never work in networked environments
(*scnr*).
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1849729
Title:
chromium-browser fails to start after upgrade to eoan
Status in chromium-browser package in Ubuntu:
New
Bug description:
did a distro upgrade to eoan through upon request of popup app in
ubuntu today
restarted the system
tried starting chromium-browser from the "Run Application" (Alt-F2)
Chromium should have started, nothing happened.
Tried again from a shell:
$ chromium-browser
2019/10/24 22:07:56.441694 cmd_run.go:529: WARNING: XAUTHORITY environment
value is not a clean path: "/misc/home/<username>/.Xauthority"
cannot perform operation: mount --rbind /home /tmp/snap.rootfs_gRwtXn//home:
Permission denied
apt-get --purge remove chromium-browser
apt-get install chromium-browser
exits successfully, after exclaiming some stuff about some snap, but
leaves me with
$ chromium-browser
2019/10/24 22:14:53.150401 cmd_run.go:529: WARNING: XAUTHORITY environment
value is not a clean path: "/misc/home/<username>/.Xauthority"
cannot perform operation: mount --rbind /home /tmp/snap.rootfs_rkOYc1//home:
Permission denied
Either the upgrade to eoan left my system broken, or chromium-browser is
broken.
lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 19.10
Release: 19.10
$ apt-cache policy chromium-browser
chromium-browser:
Installed: 77.0.3865.120-0ubuntu1~snap1
Candidate: 77.0.3865.120-0ubuntu1~snap1
Version table:
*** 77.0.3865.120-0ubuntu1~snap1 500
500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu eoan/universe amd64 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 19.10
Package: chromium-browser 77.0.3865.120-0ubuntu1~snap1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.3.0-19.20-generic 5.3.1
Uname: Linux 5.3.0-19-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu8
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: MATE
Date: Thu Oct 24 22:08:43 2019
InstallationDate: Installed on 2019-04-10 (197 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-MATE 19.04 "Disco Dingo" - Alpha amd64 (20190326.1)
Snap.ChromeDriverVersion:
Error: command ['snap', 'run', 'chromium.chromedriver', '--version'] failed
with exit code 1: 2019/10/24 22:08:56.371246 cmd_run.go:529: WARNING:
XAUTHORITY environment value is not a clean path:
"/misc/home/thorsten/.Xauthority"
cannot perform operation: mount --rbind /home /tmp/snap.rootfs_6BAwdi//home:
Permission denied
Snap.ChromiumVersion:
Error: command ['snap', 'run', 'chromium', '--version'] failed with exit
code 1: 2019/10/24 22:08:56.217828 cmd_run.go:529: WARNING: XAUTHORITY
environment value is not a clean path: "/misc/home/thorsten/.Xauthority"
cannot perform operation: mount --rbind /home /tmp/snap.rootfs_tHjxkD//home:
Permission denied
SourcePackage: chromium-browser
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to eoan on 2019-10-24 (0 days ago)
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