I ran sudo snap remove spotify, but it hung for a long time and I had to kill the command by sending it a SIGQUIT (Ctrl + \) since it didn’t respond with a SIQINT (Ctrl + c)
I tried running the command again but its now in this weird stuck state where it says it’s installed but cannot be removed.
Here is some diagnostic information:
$ snap changes
ID Status Spawn Ready Summary
153 Done today at 16:15 CDT today at 16:16 CDT Auto-refresh snap "spotify"
154 Error today at 21:35 CDT today at 21:44 CDT Remove "spotify" snap
155 Abort today at 21:44 CDT - Remove "spotify" snap
$ sudo snap install spotify
snap "spotify" is already installed, see 'snap help refresh'
$ sudo snap refresh spotify
snap "spotify" has no updates available
$ sudo snap remove --purge spotify
error: snap "spotify" has "remove-snap" change in progress
I tried googling but I can’t find anything about forcefully removing the snap.
Status Spawn Ready Summary
Undo today at 09:11 EDT today at 09:11 EDT Stop snap "spotify" services
Undo today at 09:11 EDT today at 09:11 EDT Run remove hook of "spotify" snap if present
Undo today at 09:11 EDT today at 09:11 EDT Disconnect interfaces of snap "spotify"
Abort today at 09:11 EDT - Save data of snap "spotify" in automatic snapshot set #3
Hold today at 09:11 EDT today at 09:12 EDT Remove aliases for snap "spotify"
Hold today at 09:11 EDT today at 09:12 EDT Make snap "spotify" unavailable to the system
Hold today at 09:11 EDT today at 09:12 EDT Remove security profile for snap "spotify" (60)
Hold today at 09:11 EDT today at 09:12 EDT Remove data for snap "spotify" (58)
Hold today at 09:11 EDT today at 09:12 EDT Remove snap "spotify" (58) from the system
Hold today at 09:11 EDT today at 09:12 EDT Remove data for snap "spotify" (60)
Hold today at 09:11 EDT today at 09:12 EDT Remove snap "spotify" (60) from the system
Undo today at 09:11 EDT today at 09:11 EDT Disconnect spotify:gtk-3-themes from gtk-common-themes:gtk-3-themes
Undo today at 09:11 EDT today at 09:11 EDT Disconnect spotify:opengl from snapd:opengl
Undo today at 09:11 EDT today at 09:11 EDT Disconnect spotify:desktop from snapd:desktop
Undo today at 09:11 EDT today at 09:11 EDT Disconnect spotify:wayland from snapd:wayland
Undo today at 09:11 EDT today at 09:11 EDT Disconnect spotify:sound-themes from gtk-common-themes:sound-themes
Undo today at 09:11 EDT today at 09:11 EDT Disconnect spotify:desktop-legacy from snapd:desktop-legacy
Undo today at 09:11 EDT today at 09:11 EDT Disconnect spotify:browser-support from snapd:browser-support
Undo today at 09:11 EDT today at 09:11 EDT Disconnect spotify:x11 from snapd:x11
Undo today at 09:11 EDT today at 09:11 EDT Disconnect spotify:icon-themes from gtk-common-themes:icon-themes
Undo today at 09:11 EDT today at 09:11 EDT Disconnect spotify:gsettings from snapd:gsettings
Undo today at 09:11 EDT today at 09:11 EDT Disconnect spotify:audio-playback from snapd:audio-playback
Undo today at 09:11 EDT today at 09:11 EDT Disconnect spotify:network from snapd:network
Undo today at 09:11 EDT today at 09:11 EDT Disconnect spotify:home from snapd:home
you seem to have stopped the process with something like ctrl-c while it tried to store a snapshot (backup) of your data before removal, which is snap default behavior when removing a snap … if you do not care about keeping your app data, caches, login data, etc. for a potential re-install of the snap you can use the --purge option to the snap remove ... command, that will skip taking a snapshot and simply remove everything right away.
hmm, so it is already in abort state … you could try to force it by calling snap abort 319 not sure if that will actually help though since it thinks it is already aborting …
I ended up restarting and everything started working again. I thought my Spotify install was having an issue because nothing would play, turns out it was just a Spotify outage that has resolved itself
