Enough was said about this being bad user experience, can I get a
suggestion of what a good one would be? Of course the constant of the
connection to the store being slow can't be wished away.
Is "Installing" the keyword that is throwing people off? If we instead
wrote
"=> Downloading the chromium snap and its dependencies"
would this be any better?
For the specific case this bug is about (error: snap "chromium" has
"install-snap" change in progress), I'm considering adding a notice
clarifying the situation and giving option for manual intervention.
echo "=> Snap installation is already in progress. You can wait
some more minutes, but it might be stuck, in which case you could try the
following:"
echo "1. Open a terminal."
echo "2. Enter 'snap changes', note the ID number of the stuck
operation."
echo "3. Enter 'sudo snap abort <id>', replacing '<id>' by the
ID number of the stuck operation."
echo "4. Enter 'sudo snap install chromium' and wait for it to
complete."
I'd be glad to hear your impressions on the subject.
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1886414
Title:
the chromium snap takes a long time to install without visible user
feedback, seems stuck
Status in chromium-browser package in Ubuntu:
In Progress
Bug description:
after an initial attemp to install where the progress got stuck at
20%, i rebooted as there were a bunch of other system updates that had
been applied after a fresh isntall.
Now chromium wont install
dantheperson@danski:~$ sudo apt install chromium-browser
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages will be upgraded:
chromium-browser
1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 48.4 kB of archives.
After this operation, 164 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://nz.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-updates/universe amd64
chromium-browser amd64 81.0.4044.129-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 [48.4 kB]
Fetched 48.4 kB in 0s (1,527 kB/s)
Preconfiguring packages ...
(Reading database ... 185728 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack
.../chromium-browser_81.0.4044.129-0ubuntu0.20.04.1_amd64.deb ...
=> Installing the chromium snap
==> Checking connectivity with the snap store
==> Installing the chromium snap
error: snap "chromium" has "install-snap" change in progress
dpkg: error processing archive
/var/cache/apt/archives/chromium-browser_81.0.4044.129-0ubuntu0.20.04.1_amd64.deb
(--unpack):
new chromium-browser package pre-installation script subprocess returned
error exit status 10
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/chromium-browser_81.0.4044.129-0ubuntu0.20.04.1_amd64.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04
Package: chromium-browser 81.0.4044.129-0ubuntu0.20.04.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.4.0-40.44-generic 5.4.44
Uname: Linux 5.4.0-40-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu27.3
AptOrdering:
chromium-browser:amd64: Install
NULL: ConfigurePending
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: skip
Date: Mon Jul 6 23:39:11 2020
Dependencies:
ErrorMessage: new chromium-browser package pre-installation script subprocess
returned error exit status 10
InstallationDate: Installed on 2020-07-06 (0 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS "Focal Fossa" - Release amd64 (20200423)
Python3Details: /usr/bin/python3.8, Python 3.8.2, python3-minimal,
3.8.2-0ubuntu2
PythonDetails: N/A
RelatedPackageVersions:
dpkg 1.19.7ubuntu3
apt 2.0.2ubuntu0.1
SourcePackage: chromium-browser
Title: package chromium-browser 81.0.4044.129-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 failed to
install/upgrade: new chromium-browser package pre-installation script
subprocess returned error exit status 10
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
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