Firefox snap updates for non-technical users

[Colin Law]

On Thu, 1 Sept 2022 at 10:36, Ian Bruntlett <ian.bruntlett at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Colin,
>
> On Thu, 1 Sept 2022 at 10:28, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> What does this show
>> snap refresh --time
>
>
> And my system shows this...
> $ snap refresh --time
> timer: 00:00~24:00/4
> last: today at 08:55 BST

It is odd that it doesn't show the output in the systemctl status
output.  Mine shows (with added command line parameters to force line
wrap)

$ sudo systemctl status snapd.service --no-pager -l
● snapd.service - Snap Daemon
     Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/snapd.service; enabled;
vendor preset: enabled)
     Active: active (running) since Thu 2022-09-01 08:01:17 BST; 2h 40min ago
TriggeredBy: ● snapd.socket
   Main PID: 1193 (snapd)
      Tasks: 16 (limit: 18988)
     Memory: 407.2M
     CGroup: /system.slice/snapd.service
             └─1193 /usr/lib/snapd/snapd

Sep 01 08:01:15 tigger snapd[1193]: AppArmor status: apparmor is
enabled and all features are available
Sep 01 08:01:17 tigger snapd[1193]: AppArmor status: apparmor is
enabled and all features are available
Sep 01 08:01:17 tigger snapd[1193]: overlord.go:263: Acquiring state lock file
Sep 01 08:01:17 tigger snapd[1193]: overlord.go:268: Acquired state lock file
Sep 01 08:01:17 tigger snapd[1193]: daemon.go:247: started
snapd/2.56.2 (series 16; classic) ubuntu/20.04 (amd64)
linux/5.4.0-125-generic.
Sep 01 08:01:17 tigger snapd[1193]: daemon.go:340: adjusting startup
timeout by 2m5s (pessimistic estimate of 30s plus 5s per snap)
Sep 01 08:01:17 tigger systemd[1]: Started Snap Daemon.
Sep 01 08:01:18 tigger snapd[1193]: stateengine.go:149: state ensure
error: Get https://api.snapcraft.io/api/v1/snaps/sections: dial tcp:
lookup api.snapcraft.io: no such host
Sep 01 08:06:18 tigger snapd[1193]: storehelpers.go:722: cannot
refresh: snap has no updates available: "bare", "core", "core18",
"core20", "cura-slicer", "get-iplayer", "gnome-3-26-1604",
"gnome-3-28-1804", "gnome-3-34-1804", "gnome-3-38-2004",
"gnome-system-monitor", "gtk-common-themes",
"kde-frameworks-5-91-qt-5-15-3-core20",
"kde-frameworks-5-qt-5-15-3-core20", "keepassxc", "mqtt-explorer",
"simplenote", "snap-store"
Sep 01 08:08:00 tigger snapd[1193]: storehelpers.go:722: cannot
refresh snap "chromium": snap has no updates available

This is on Ubuntu 20.04 so maybe the default options are different to yours.

Colin