Public bug reported:
A while ago I installed ripgrep on a server with
sudo apt install snapd
sudo snap install ripgrep --classic
sudo snap alias ripgrep.rg rg
and it didn't work for me:
$ rg --help
cannot create user data directory: /home/mg/snap/ripgrep/4: Too many levels
of symbolic links
but I was busy and didn't file a bug. Today it still doesn't work, but
the error message is different:
$ rg --help
cannot create user data directory: /home/mg/snap/ripgrep/8: Not a directory
Possibly relevant information (especially given the symlink reference in
the original error message): my home directory according to /etc/passwd
is /home/mg, which is actually a symlink to ../home-ssd/mg. /home is an
ext4 partition on a MD RAID-1 device on spinning rust, /home-ssd is an
ext4 partition on an LVM volume (mirrored as raid-1) on a pair of SSDs.
/home-ssd is too small to contain all the home directories, hence the
selective symlinking.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
Package: snap (not installed)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-91.92-generic 4.15.18
Uname: Linux 4.15.0-91-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.11
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Mar 18 14:42:48 2020
SourcePackage: snap
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to bionic on 2019-09-11 (188 days ago)
** Affects: snap (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: amd64 apport-bug bionic
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