Problems working with snaps when /var/lib/snapd is a symlink

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@ajtown

Due to lack of disk space, I have “/var/lib/snapd” symlinked to a directory on a partition with more room (Ubuntu 22.04).

Yeah, don’t do that, apparmor will not allow symlinking, just use a bind mount instead and it will work fine…

See the answers in this post for more details:

Moved /var/lib/snapd into /home/snapd and symlicked back. Snaps fail to start

AFAIK you should use a bind mount to do that. I suggest trying with the following mount unit: # /etc/systemd/system/var-lib-snapd.mount [Unit] Description=bind mount snapd from /home to /var/lib/snapd [Mount] What=/home/snapd Where=/var/lib/snapd Options=bind [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target RequiredBy=snapd.service Save it to /etc/systemd/system/var-lib-snapd.mount, then: # remove the symlink $ rm -f /var/lib/snapd` symlink $ systemctl daemon-reload # enable the mount unit $ systemctl …