Hi all!
I tried to uninstall my firefox snap by doing sudo snap remove firefox. This failed with:
error: cannot perform the following tasks:
- Remove data for snap "firefox" (2605) (failed to remove snap "firefox" base directory: remove /var/snap/firefox: directory not empty)
Although afterwards (I think) firefox wasn’t available in my $PATH.
I tried to make it available again with with sudo snap install firefox, which told me snap "firefox" is already installed, see 'snap help refresh'. I ran sudo snap enable firefox, which allowed me to start firefox, but it had a new profile, my original profile was gone. After some googling I realized I should try to restore a snapshot, that snap would hopefully have created while removing firefox. However sudo snap saved shows No snapshots found..
To debug this further I ran snap changes:
ID Status Spawn Ready Summary
293 Done yesterday at 09:00 EDT yesterday at 09:00 EDT Refresh all snaps: no updates
294 Done yesterday at 16:24 EDT yesterday at 16:24 EDT Refresh all snaps: no updates
295 Done today at 10:35 EDT today at 10:35 EDT Auto-refresh snap "core22"
296 Error today at 16:08 EDT today at 16:10 EDT Remove "firefox" snap
297 Done today at 16:14 EDT today at 16:14 EDT Enable "firefox" snap
Running snap change 296 gives:
Status Spawn Ready Summary
Undone today at 16:08 EDT today at 16:10 EDT Stop snap "firefox" services
Undone today at 16:08 EDT today at 16:10 EDT Run remove hook of "firefox" snap if present
Done today at 16:08 EDT today at 16:10 EDT Disconnect interfaces of snap "firefox"
Undone today at 16:08 EDT today at 16:10 EDT Save data of snap "firefox" in automatic snapshot set #4
Undone today at 16:08 EDT today at 16:10 EDT Remove aliases for snap "firefox"
Undone today at 16:08 EDT today at 16:10 EDT Make snap "firefox" unavailable to the system
Undone today at 16:08 EDT today at 16:10 EDT Remove security profile for snap "firefox" (2605)
Done today at 16:08 EDT today at 16:10 EDT Remove data for snap "firefox" (2579)
Done today at 16:08 EDT today at 16:10 EDT Remove snap "firefox" (2579) from the system
Error today at 16:08 EDT today at 16:10 EDT Remove data for snap "firefox" (2605)
Hold today at 16:08 EDT today at 16:10 EDT Remove snap "firefox" (2605) from the system
Undone today at 16:08 EDT today at 16:10 EDT Disconnect firefox:desktop-legacy from snapd:desktop-legacy
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It says Save data of snap "firefox" in automatic snapshot set #4, but the status of that entry is Undone. I’m assuming this automatic snapshot was supposed to contain my firefox profile, but for some reason it wasn’t created.
Now here are my questions:
- Is my understanding of what happened roughly correct?
- Why was the automatic snapshot not created?
- Is there any way to get my original firefox profile back?
Thanks a lot!
I’m running ubuntu 22.10 and snap 2.59.2.