Comment 9 for bug 1620771

I seem to have encountered a slight variant of this issue. snaps don't work when the homedir is a real directory, but not in /home.

Scenario:

A user's home is defined in /etc/passwd as "/nonstandard/home/rebel".

$> ECHO $HOME

/nonstandard/home/rebel

$>hello-world

cannot create user data directory: /nonstandard/home/rebel/snap/hello-world/27: Read-only file system

That's interesting, because that directory is in fact created when running hello-world for the first time:

$tree ./snap

snap
└── hello-world
    ├── 27
    └── common

On the same system, hello-world works fine for a user under /home:

$> ECHO $HOME

/home/wellbehaved

$> hello-world

Hello World!

I will try the workaround in comments #6-#7.