Re: What's going on with snapd?
On 10/27/2020 6:54 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
What release are you running (stable, testing, unstable, etc.)? The
package in stable will only receive security updates.
I'm running unstable. But if I've got the dates right, some of them were
reported before Buster became stable.
I suppose my main concern here is that most of the listed bugs seem to
have gotten no response at all, for a few years, so a framework that (I
was told) is considered a reliable tool for daily use at Canonical seems
to be badly broken on Debian, so there's some break in communication,
and I'm wondering if there's anything to be done about it.
The immediate reason I ran into an issue was that I wanted to try out
Ember, a client for WorldForge, an open source MMO; it's in the Debian
repository as a snap package -- which strikes me as an odd choice, and I
gather there was some controversy about it. Anyway, it seems like the
issues I ran into were all issues with snapd, which seems like a tool
intended for more extensive use and a broader concern.
Please provide some example for the bugs you're interested in.
The ones I ran into myself:
#880174 snapd: swrast error (nvidia-legacy-340xx) while launching UI
installed-snaps
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=880174
#911906 snapd: Boot hangs due to snappy/snapd: `A start job is running
for Snappy daemon (../1min31s)`
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=911906
#931776 snapd: Installed snaps do not appear in desktop launcher in
Debian buster.
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=931776
#947325 snapd: strict confinement is not enabled
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=947325
Of those, #931776 looked the most like a problem I understood; it looks
to me as if someone simply copied over a configuration script meant for
headless servers and didn't check if it would work with GUI desktops,
which it doesn't, because the script's not executed in that case. But
startup configuration dotfiles are a maddening labyrinth.
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