<div dir="ltr">Ok, thanks for those details. We'll look more deeply into this tomorrow and try to reproduce the issue.<div> </div><div>To fix your problem, can you please try this simple hack to get over the bug:</div><div> </div><div>sudo mount --bind /snap/ubuntu-core/current /snap/viking-gps/1</div><div> </div><div>This should allow the remove to go through.</div><div> </div><div class="gmail_extra"> <div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Nov 2, 2016 at 7:53 PM, Chris <<a href="mailto:cpollock@embarqmail.com" target="_blank">cpollock@embarqmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On Wed, 2016-11-02 at 18:43 -0200, Gustavo Niemeyer wrote: > Hi Chris, > > Can you please try updating your snapd package? > > Recent releases have a more reliable remove procedure that handles > these cases better. > According to apt-cache policy chris@localhost:~$ apt-cache policy snapd snapd: Installed: 2.16ubuntu3 Candidate: 2.16ubuntu3 Version table: *** 2.16ubuntu3 500 500 <a href="http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu</a> xenial-updates/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 2.0.2 500 500 <a href="http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu</a> xenial/main amd64 Packages I tried to upgrade, sudo apt upgrade snapd chris@localhost:~$ sudo apt upgrade snapd [sudo] password for chris: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done snapd is already the newest version (2.16ubuntu3). Calculating upgrade... Done <div><div class="m_-913210245155272603h5"> > On Wed, Nov 2, 2016 at 6:40 PM, Chris <<a href="mailto:cpollock@embarqmail.com" target="_blank">cpollock@embarqmail.com</a>> > wrote: > > I went to remove a snap, viking-gps, and it just sat there doing > > nothing. I did a CTRL-C to stop the process. So, running snap > > changes > > showed me > > > > 343 Doing 2016-11-02T17:22:13Z - Remove > > "viking-gps" snap > > > > Then running snap change 343, since it was still running I get: > > > > chris@localhost:/snap/viking-gps/1$ snap change 343 > > Status Spawn Ready Summary > > Done 2016-11-02T17:22:13Z 2016-11-02T17:22:14Z Stop snap > > "viking- > > gps" services > > Done 2016-11-02T17:22:13Z 2016-11-02T17:22:16Z Make snap > > "viking- > > gps" unavailable to the system > > Done 2016-11-02T17:22:13Z 2016-11-02T17:22:19Z Remove security > > profile for snap "viking-gps" (1) > > Done 2016-11-02T17:22:13Z 2016-11-02T17:22:21Z Remove data for > > snap "viking-gps" (1) > > Doing 2016-11-02T17:22:13Z - Remove snap > > "viking-gps" (1) from the system > > Do 2016-11-02T17:22:13Z - Discard > > interface > > connections for snap "viking-gps" (1) > > > > ................................................................... > > ... > > Remove snap "viking-gps" (1) from the system > > > > 2016-11-02T14:47:01-05:00 ERROR cannot remove snap file "viking- > > gps", > > will retry in 3 mins: umount: /snap/viking-gps/1: not mounted > > 2016-11-02T14:50:01-05:00 ERROR cannot remove snap file "viking- > > gps", > > will retry in 3 mins: umount: /snap/viking-gps/1: not mounted > > 2016-11-02T14:53:01-05:00 ERROR cannot remove snap file "viking- > > gps", > > will retry in 3 mins: umount: /snap/viking-gps/1: not mounted > > 2016-11-02T14:56:01-05:00 ERROR cannot remove snap file "viking- > > gps", > > will retry in 3 mins: umount: /snap/viking-gps/1: not mounted > > 2016-11-02T14:59:01-05:00 ERROR cannot remove snap file "viking- > > gps", > > will retry in 3 mins: umount: /snap/viking-gps/1: not mounted > > 2016-11-02T15:02:01-05:00 ERROR cannot remove snap file "viking- > > gps", > > will retry in 3 mins: umount: /snap/viking-gps/1: not mounted > > 2016-11-02T15:06:47-05:00 ERROR cannot remove snap file "viking- > > gps", > > will retry in 3 mins: umount: /snap/viking-gps/1: not mounted > > 2016-11-02T15:09:49-05:00 ERROR cannot remove snap file "viking- > > gps", > > will retry in 3 mins: umount: /snap/viking-gps/1: not mounted > > 2016-11-02T15:12:50-05:00 ERROR cannot remove snap file "viking- > > gps", > > will retry in 3 mins: umount: /snap/viking-gps/1: not mounted > > 2016-11-02T15:15:51-05:00 ERROR cannot remove snap file "viking- > > gps", > > will retry in 3 mins: umount: /snap/viking-gps/1: not mounted > > > > The above tells me that all has been done except removing the snap > > and > > discarding the interface. I ran sudo snap abort 343 which stopped > > it. > > However the snap still showed up in /snap but was empty. I took a > > drastic step and just rmdir the folder under viking-gps and viking- > > gps > > itself. When I run sudo snap list it still shows up. > > > > chris@localhost:/snap$ sudo snap list > > Name Version Rev Developer Notes > > blender-tpaw 2.78-tpaw0 2 tpaw - > > directpdf 0.1.4 8 normex devmode > > krita 3.0.1.1-snap16 8 krita - > > pencilsheep 5 5 pencilsheep - > > snapweb 0.21.2 24 canonical - > > speed-test 1.7.0.1 2 bartaz - > > ubuntu-core 16.04.1 423 canonical - > > vice-jz 2.4.27-2 4 jz - > > viking- > > gps 1 chihchun disabled,broken > > wallpaperdownloader 2.3 5 egarcia - > > > > What snap command do I use to totally remove it from the list of > > snaps > > on my system? > > > > -- > > Chris > > KeyID 0xE372A7DA98E6705C > > 31.11972; -97.90167 (Elev. 1092 ft) > > 15:14:05 up 8 min, 1 user, load average: 4.82, 4.76, 2.53 > > Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS, kernel 4.4.0-45-generic #66-Ubuntu SMP Wed Oct > > 19 14:12:37 UTC 2016 > > > > -- > > Snapcraft mailing list > > <a href="mailto:Snapcraft@lists.snapcraft.io" target="_blank">Snapcraft@lists.snapcraft.io</a> > > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman</a> > > /listinfo/snapcraft > > > > > -- > > gustavo @ <a href="http://niemeyer.net" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://niemeyer.net</a> > -- > Snapcraft mailing list > <a href="mailto:Snapcraft@lists.snapcraft.io" target="_blank">Snapcraft@lists.snapcraft.io</a> > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/l" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/l</a> > istinfo/snapcraft -- Chris KeyID 0xE372A7DA98E6705C 31.11972; -97.90167 (Elev. 1092 ft) </div></div>16:35:27 up 1:29, 1 user, load average: 0.07, 0.11, 0.10 <div class="m_-913210245155272603HOEnZb"><div class="m_-913210245155272603h5">Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS, kernel 4.4.0-45-generic #66-Ubuntu SMP Wed Oct 19 14:12:37 UTC 2016 </div></div> -- Snapcraft mailing list <a href="mailto:Snapcraft@lists.snapcraft.io" target="_blank">Snapcraft@lists.snapcraft.io</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/snapcraft" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/snapcraft</a> </blockquote></div> <div> </div>-- <div class="m_-913210245155272603gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"> gustavo @ <a href="http://niemeyer.net" target="_blank">http://niemeyer.net</a></div> </div></div>