Ubuntu
snapd package

Easily able to remove platform snaps

Bug #1855944 reported by Robert Ancell
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snapd (Ubuntu)
Triaged
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Bug Description

You can very easily remove a GNOME runtime snap without any warning of the consequences of this action.

i.e.
$ snap remove gnome-3-28-1804
$ gnome-calculator
/snap/gnome-calculator/544/snap/command-chain/desktop-launch: line 11: /snap/gnome-calculator/544/gnome-platform/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgtk-3-0/gtk-query-immodules-3.0: No such file or directory
ERROR: /snap/gnome-calculator/544/gnome-platform/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgtk-3-0/gtk-query-immodules-3.0 exited abnormally with status 127

And if you try and correct this mistake:
$ snap install gnome-3-28-1804
$ gnome-calculator
/home/bob/snap/gnome-calculator/common/.cache/gio-modules/libgiognomeproxy.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Failed to load module: /home/bob/snap/gnome-calculator/common/.cache/gio-modules/libgiognomeproxy.so
/home/bob/snap/gnome-calculator/common/.cache/gio-modules/libdconfsettings.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Failed to load module: /home/bob/snap/gnome-calculator/common/.cache/gio-modules/libdconfsettings.so
/home/bob/snap/gnome-calculator/common/.cache/gio-modules/libgiolibproxy.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Failed to load module: /home/bob/snap/gnome-calculator/common/.cache/gio-modules/libgiolibproxy.so
/home/bob/snap/gnome-calculator/common/.cache/gio-modules/libgiognutls.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Failed to load module: /home/bob/snap/gnome-calculator/common/.cache/gio-modules/libgiognutls.so

(gnome-calculator:205254): GdkPixbuf-WARNING **: 13:33:47.404: Cannot open pixbuf loader module file '/home/bob/snap/gnome-calculator/common/.cache/gdk-pixbuf-loaders.cache': No such file or directory

This likely means that your installation is broken.
Try running the command
  gdk-pixbuf-query-loaders > /home/bob/snap/gnome-calculator/common/.cache/gdk-pixbuf-loaders.cache
to make things work again for the time being.

Revision history for this message
Robert Ancell (robert-ancell) wrote :

The same issue occurs in other clients, e.g. GNOME Software.

Revision history for this message
Robert Ancell (robert-ancell) wrote :

Same sort of issue with KDE:
$ snap remove kde-frameworks-5-core18

John Lenton (chipaca)
Changed in snapd (Ubuntu):
status: New → Triaged
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
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