None of the snap symlink the home folders

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Hi I noticed that none of the snap (running on 18.04 Mate) manage to connect to the home folders.

When starting I get for all my snaps messages like:
ln: failed to create symbolic link '/home/dietmarw/snap/gnome-calculator/222/snap/gnome-calculator/222/Documents': No such file or directory
etc for all the folders.

it is some annoyance but I fear in case of vidcutter might actually keep it from working properly. Any idea how to fix this?

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That message seems to come from the desktop-launch script from ubuntu/snapcraft-desktop-helpers. Try produce a debug trace of the script by:

  1. Run snap run --shell gnome-calculator in a terminal to get a in-snap shell
  2. Run cat $SNAP/command-gnome-calculator.wrapper, copy and paste the lines starting with export and run each of them
  3. Run bash -o xtrace desktop-launch, wait for the command-line prompt to re-appear
  4. Copy all messages in terminal to Ubuntu Pastebin, submit it and paste the result paste URL here(example: https://paste.ubuntu.com/p/pJ5rzj5tDt/ ).
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Hi, thanks did all that and here is the output: https://paste.ubuntu.com/p/g4vvPFWcpJ/

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Just noticed that I ran the sequence as root. Here the paste from when I’m running it as normal user: https://paste.ubuntu.com/p/HrjvZ97x2Y/

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gnome-calculator snap does not define any connection to the home interface, so it cannot point those folders to your home folder.

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It seems this missing connection is missing for all my snaps. E.g., vidcutter, signal-desktop, gimp etc show all the same problem. Which again makes me believe the problem must be somewhere else since surely not all of them have “forgotten” the home interface.

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Please file an issue on Issues · ubuntu/snapcraft-desktop-helpers with the trace paste URL.

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Done: https://github.com/ubuntu/snapcraft-desktop-helpers/issues/153