LTS upgrade to 22.04 stuck on snapd restart

[Colin Law]

On Mon, 5 Sept 2022 at 21:14, Bret Busby <bret at busby.net> wrote:
>
> So, is it possible to get rid of this snap stuff, and, run Ubuntu
> without this snap irritant?
>
> I am getting snap popups about every five minutes - it is malware,
> telling me repeatedly to shutdown firefox because some evil snap thing
> is going to happen in a week or so.

That means the you are running the snap install of FF and it needs to
upgrade, which it can't do while you have FF open.  To update FF,
close it and run
snap refresh

If you don't want to run the snap version of FF then first work out
how else you are going to install it, then remove the snap version
snap remove firefox

Colin