Comment 11 for bug 1886414

I reckon he means get rid of snap caused it turned a trivial task into a
difficult one.

On Fri, 7 Aug 2020, 08:10 Olivier Tilloy, <email address hidden>
wrote:

> Sorry, I'm not sure what you mean with that last comment. Can you please
> elaborate?
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1886414
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> Title:
> the chromium snap takes a long time to install without visible user
> feedback, seems stuck
>
> Status in chromium-browser package in Ubuntu:
> Confirmed
>
> 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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