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  1. Bug #1592696
  2. Comment #26

Comment 26 for bug 1592696

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Jamie Strandboge (jdstrand) wrote : Re: snaps dont work with encrypted home: failed to create user data directory. errmsg: Permission denied

FYI, this is fixed in the snap-confine that is in xenial-proposed and so it will hopefully be fixed for all 14.04 LTS users soon. In the meantime if you don't want to install proposed packages, the workarounds listed in this report continue to work. I'll list the complete workaround here:

1. make sure /etc/apparmor.d/usr.bin.ubuntu-core-launcher has:
    owner @{HOME}/.Private/ r,
    owner @{HOME}/.Private/** mrixwlk,
    # new-style encrypted $HOME
    owner @{HOMEDIRS}/.ecryptfs/*/.Private/ r,
    owner @{HOMEDIRS}/.ecryptfs/*/.Private/** mrixwlk,

2. load the updated profile into the kernel with: sudo apparmor_parser -r /etc/apparmor.d/usr.bin.ubuntu-core-launcher

Keep in mind if you switch back and forth from snap-confine in xenial-proposed and ubuntu-core-launcher that is in the archive, you may have to reapply the above.