New, never-ending chromium.launcher process on every chromium start since [Focal 20.04/Snap] due to check_current_symlink()

[Benjamin Schmid]

Since my upgrade from 19.10 to 20.04 on every start a _new_ /snap/chromium/[digit]/bin/chromium.launcher instance is launched and never-ending. It spawns a "sleep 60" child process.

Five time starting (and stopping!) chromium = 5 processes

2823981 ? S 0:00 \_ /bin/sh /snap/chromium/1119/bin/chromium.launcher
2832707 ? S 0:00 | \_ sleep 60
2824647 ? S 0:00 \_ /bin/sh /snap/chromium/1119/bin/chromium.launcher
2831803 ? S 0:00 | \_ sleep 60
2825134 ? S 0:00 \_ /bin/sh /snap/chromium/1119/bin/chromium.launcher
2831953 ? S 0:00 | \_ sleep 60
2825521 ? S 0:00 \_ /bin/sh /snap/chromium/1119/bin/chromium.launcher
2832057 ? S 0:00 | \_ sleep 60
2832767 ? S 0:00 \_ /bin/sh /snap/chromium/1119/bin/chromium.launcher
2832771 ? S 0:00 \_ sleep 60

The sleep 60 clearly indicates a problem in the check_current_symlink() function.

[Benjamin Schmid (benbuntu)]

Obviously caused by: https://launchpad.net/bugs/1864901

[Olivier Tilloy (osomon)]

Yes, and this is being tracked in bug #1864901, so I'm marking as a duplicate. This should be fixed in the stable channel, by the way.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Ebuzer Taha Kanat (ebuzer)]

This problem exists for my setup too.

snap 2.44.3
snapd 2.44.3
series 16
ubuntu 16.04
kernel 4.15.0-15-generic

name: chromium
summary: Chromium web browser, open-source version of Chrome
publisher: Canonical✓
store-url: https://snapcraft.io/chromium
contact: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/chromium-browser/+bugs?field.tag=snap
license: unset
description: |
  An open-source browser project that aims to build a safer, faster, and more stable way for all
  Internet users to experience the web.
commands:
  - chromium.chromedriver
  - chromium
snap-id: XKEcBqPM06H1Z7zGOdG5fbICuf8NWK5R
tracking: latest/stable
refresh-date: today at 21:41 +03
channels:
  latest/stable: 81.0.4044.129 2020-04-29 (1135) 161MB -
  latest/candidate: 81.0.4044.129 2020-04-28 (1135) 161MB -
  latest/beta: 83.0.4103.23 2020-04-25 (1125) 163MB -
  latest/edge: 84.0.4128.3 2020-04-29 (1136) 164MB -
installed: 81.0.4044.129 (1135) 161MB -

This problem and other problems doesn't exist for firefox snap idk what is different for chromium.