[Bug 1884299] Re: Snaps don't run with NFS home on AutoFS

[Oleg Davydov]

I ran into a similar issue when trying to use sshfs-mounted profile for
firefox.

My setup:

$ mkdir .remote
$ sshfs <remote> .remote -o idmap=user
$ ln -s .remote/snap

So now /home/ubuntu/snap is a symlink to a directory
/home/ubuntu/.remote/snap. When trying to run firefox, it fails with:

$ firefox
cannot create user data directory: /home/ubuntu/snap/firefox/1232: Not a directory

Which is confusing, as /home/ubuntu/snap/firefox/1232 is a directory.
Trying to strace what's going on (details in
https://pastebin.com/gbeHV8L1) I found out that firefox (or snap) is
confused that snap is a symlink to directory, not a directory by itself
(and this limitation doesn't makes sense to me, looks like just
implementation flaw of creating user directory).

Not sure if this is related to the above, but experience is similar.

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