I've tested this again just now and in typically I cannot get it to fail again on my computer. I've asked someone else to test and although it took about 10 minutes compared to the 10 seconds it took me, it did complete. This is despite us being sat next to each other on the same network and their device being a higher specification than mine.
After replicating this bug during the Ubuntu Summit, then me replicating the failure on a Canonical employees device in the same way, I'm certain in some scenarios it fails and leaves the device with a partially installed snap. Perhaps this is down to the snap taking a long time to download then hitting a timeout whilst the install is occurring? You can see a report of this in the linked bug #1891373. To clarify when I say the package should handle its own failure scenarios, I don't mean that it shouldn't fail, just that it should put the system back into the state it was in before the failure rather than leave something behind that could cause problems with future installations. I appreciate that it may be difficult to do this if I appreciate that this may be a difficult one to get to the bottom of and appreciate your patience. -- 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/1886414 Title: the chromium snap takes a long time to install without visible user feedback, seems stuck Status in chromium-browser package in Ubuntu: In Progress Bug description: after an initial attemp to install where the progress got stuck at 20%, i rebooted as there were a bunch of other system updates that had been applied after a fresh isntall. Now chromium wont install dantheperson@danski:~$ sudo apt install chromium-browser Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages will be upgraded: chromium-browser 1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. 1 not fully installed or removed. Need to get 48.4 kB of archives. After this operation, 164 kB of additional disk space will be used. Get:1 http://nz.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-updates/universe amd64 chromium-browser amd64 81.0.4044.129-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 [48.4 kB] Fetched 48.4 kB in 0s (1,527 kB/s) Preconfiguring packages ... (Reading database ... 185728 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../chromium-browser_81.0.4044.129-0ubuntu0.20.04.1_amd64.deb ... => Installing the chromium snap ==> Checking connectivity with the snap store ==> Installing the chromium snap error: snap "chromium" has "install-snap" change in progress dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/chromium-browser_81.0.4044.129-0ubuntu0.20.04.1_amd64.deb (--unpack): new chromium-browser package pre-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 10 Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/chromium-browser_81.0.4044.129-0ubuntu0.20.04.1_amd64.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) ProblemType: Package DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04 Package: chromium-browser 81.0.4044.129-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.4.0-40.44-generic 5.4.44 Uname: Linux 5.4.0-40-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu27.3 AptOrdering: chromium-browser:amd64: Install NULL: ConfigurePending Architecture: amd64 CasperMD5CheckResult: skip Date: Mon Jul 6 23:39:11 2020 Dependencies: ErrorMessage: new chromium-browser package pre-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 10 InstallationDate: Installed on 2020-07-06 (0 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS "Focal Fossa" - Release amd64 (20200423) Python3Details: /usr/bin/python3.8, Python 3.8.2, python3-minimal, 3.8.2-0ubuntu2 PythonDetails: N/A RelatedPackageVersions: dpkg 1.19.7ubuntu3 apt 2.0.2ubuntu0.1 SourcePackage: chromium-browser Title: package chromium-browser 81.0.4044.129-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 failed to install/upgrade: new chromium-browser package pre-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 10 UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/chromium-browser/+bug/1886414/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
