The inability to access the snap store is a complete mystery to me. The message was displayed just /before/ gigabytes of distribution upgrade were downloaded and installed, and I was online the whole time. And this wasn't a once-off; I've seen it four times now.
When the deb/snap swap stalled, I left it to sort itself for a long time before I decided it really had stalled. It's possible that had I waited half an hour it would have continued normally, but there was no indication anything was happening. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to chromium-browser in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1948939 Title: chromium browser deb to snap switch kills dist-upgrade Status in chromium-browser package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: During the 16LTS to 18LTS (GUI) distribution upgrade I received a warning that the process couldn't connect to the snap store. I didn't have any snaps installed, so I continued with the distribution upgrade and everything worked OK. During the 18LTS to 20LTS (GUI) distribution upgrade I received and accepted the same warning. As before I had no snaps installed. However, I did have Chromium browser installed, and as part of the distribution upgrade this tries to switch from being installed from deb to being installed from snap. At this point the distribution upgrade came to a complete halt. Also the desktop GUI became unresponsive, but it was possible to switch to a TTY console with (say) CTRL-ALT-F4, login, and execute commands. The first time this happened I managed to recover the situation somehow, and proceeded to a working 20LTS installation (albeit with a few quirks). The second time it happened I was not, and ended up with a mish-mash of 18LTS and 20LTS that wouldn't boot to the desktop. Fortunately the second time I had made a disk image of the 18LTS system, and was able to go back to that. I removed Chromium, and trying the distribution upgrade again I was not issued with the snap store warning, and the process completed uneventfully. BTW, I tried to report this problem using ubuntu-bug, but I hit this brick wall: https://bugs.launchpad.net/apport/+bug/1160316. Hence the manual report. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/chromium-browser/+bug/1948939/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
