Issue starting Slack snap (cannot update snap namespace)

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Hello there !

I just shutdown my laptop this noon and on restart, I was unable to launch Slack app. I tried to reinstall and switch to beta, still same issue.

Starting from command-line I have the following error:

cannot update snap namespace: cannot expand mount entry (none $HOME/.config/autostart none x-snapd.kind=ensure-dir,x-snapd.must-exist-dir=$HOME 0 0): cannot use invalid home directory "/home/logan": permission denied
snap-update-ns failed with code 1

I’m using Ubuntu (uname -a):

Linux my-computer-name 6.5.0-28-generic #29~22.04.1-Ubuntu SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Thu Apr  4 14:39:20 UTC 2 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
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I think this may be fixed in snapd 2.63 which is now in beta. Try snap refresh --beta snapd and please report back whether slack now starts correctly or not.

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Nice it does the job. Thank you very much.

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