1831791 - `snap install firefox --edge` causes broken installation.

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox Build System :: Third Party Packaging, defect)

Description

[Mr. Beedell, Roke Julian Lockhart]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:109.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/112.0

Steps to reproduce:

snap install firefox --channel=latest/edge
snap run firefox

Actual results:

error: cannot find current revision for snap firefox: readlink /snap/firefox/current: no such file or directory
NativeCommandExitException: Program "snap" ended with non-zero exit code: 1.

Expected results:

Firefox should have been invoked.

Comment 1

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

The Bugbug bot thinks this bug should belong to the 'Firefox Build System::Third Party Packaging' component, and is moving the bug to that component. Please correct in case you think the bot is wrong.

Comment 2

[:gerard-majax]

Can you share snap info snapd and snap info firefox ? Sounds more like a snapd bug than a firefox snap issue

Comment 3

[:gerard-majax]

Amin, is it a bug you ever heard about?

Comment 4

[Mr. Beedell, Roke Julian Lockhart]

[e-mail],

PowerShell 7.4.0-preview.3
PS /home/rokejulianlockhart> snap info snapd                                                                  name:      snapd                       
summary:   Daemon and tooling that enable snap packages
publisher: Canonical✓
store-url: https://snapcraft.io/snapd
license:   GPL-3.0+
description: |
  Install, configure, refresh and remove snap packages. Snaps are
  'universal' packages that work across many different Linux systems,
  enabling secure distribution of the latest apps and utilities for
  cloud, servers, desktops and the internet of things.
  
  Start with 'snap list' to see installed snaps.
type:    snapd
snap-id: PMrrV4ml8uWuEUDBT8dSGnKUYbevVhc4
channels:
  latest/stable:    2.59.2                 2023-05-02 (19122) 55MB -
  latest/candidate: 2.59.4                 2023-05-23 (19361) 55MB -
  latest/beta:      2.59.5                 2023-05-27 (19457) 55MB -
  latest/edge:      2.59.4+git927.gd7b49dd 2023-05-26 (19445) 42MB -
PS /home/rokejulianlockhart> snap info firefox
name:      firefox
summary:   Mozilla Firefox web browser
publisher: Mozilla✓
store-url: https://snapcraft.io/firefox
contact:   https://support.mozilla.org/kb/file-bug-report-or-feature-request-mozilla
license:   MPL-2.0
description: |
  Firefox is a powerful, extensible web browser with support for modern web application
  technologies.
snap-id: 3wdHCAVyZEmYsCMFDE9qt92UV8rC8Wdk
channels:
  latest/stable:    113.0.2-1     2023-05-23 (2710) 254MB -
  latest/candidate: 113.0.2-1     2023-05-22 (2710) 254MB -
  latest/beta:      114.0b9-1     2023-05-26 (2724) 255MB -
  latest/edge:      115.0a1       2023-05-26 (2727) 262MB -
  esr/stable:       102.11.0esr-2 2023-05-09 (2642) 186MB -
  esr/candidate:    102.11.0esr-2 2023-05-04 (2642) 186MB -
  esr/beta:         ↑                                     
  esr/edge:         ↑                                     
PS /home/rokejulianlockhart> snap refresh       
All snaps up to date.
PS /home/rokejulianlockhart>

Comment 5

[Mr. Beedell, Roke Julian Lockhart]

Attachment: It works now.

Comment 6

[Mr. Beedell, Roke Julian Lockhart]

Any idea how to close https://bugs.launchpad.net/snapcraft/+bug/2018692 ?

Comment 7

[:gerard-majax]

no but i guess amin or seb knows

Comment 8

[Mr. Beedell, Roke Julian Lockhart]

I don't know who they are. How should I contact them?

Comment 9

[:gerard-majax]

amin is already needinfo on the bug ...