Chromium snap package was out of date

[Richmond]

Tommy Trussell wrote:
>
> On Tue, Aug 27, 2024 at 11:32 AM Richmond via ubuntu-users
> <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com <mailto:ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>>
> wrote:
>
>     Hi,
>
>     Although my system had been updated, both apt and the gnome software
>     updates reported it up to date, I found that chromium had not been
>     updated for 5 days and was out of date:
>
>     tracking:     latest/stable
>     refresh-date: 5 days ago, at 23:36 BST
>     channels:
>       latest/stable:    128.0.6613.84  2024-08-23 (2934) 175MB -
>       latest/candidate: 128.0.6613.84  2024-08-22 (2934) 175MB -
>       latest/beta:      128.0.6613.27  2024-08-08 (2926) 181MB -
>       latest/edge:      130.0.6669.2   2024-08-26 (2937) 183MB -
>     installed:          127.0.6533.119            (2931) 174MB -
>
>     I updated it. But I read that snaps are supposed to be updated
>     automatically. How can I check that?
>
>     Chromium has a zero day in it, should be updated to 128.0.6613.84.
>
>
> There are several reasons a snap might not be updated. The most common
> reason is if the application is running, the snap daemon will delay
> the update. I think there's a time limit where the system will start
> complaining and ultimately force it to update. I think that is
> something like thirty days. So to trigger an update in Chromium, close
> it and use, for example, the snap refresh command:
>
> $ snap refresh
>
> On my system I use the Ubuntu Software application to check for snap
> updates (and the Gnome software application with the flatpak extension
> installed to check for flatpak updates). I also find the
> update-manager tool will automatically trigger SOME snap updates. But
> again, I think one of the quirks of the snap system is if the
> application is in use, the updates get delayed.
>
> I have my system set to run the update-manager application as soon as
> I log in (and before I start opening applications) to avoid critical
> delays. I also use the application to read through release notes to
> help me watch for problems with the updates. Sadly I suspect the
> venerable update-manager tool has been deprecated in favor of the
> flashier Software application, which has a bit less functionality in
> my opinion, but is non-modal (you can trigger updates and the updates
> will continue -- sometimes -- independently of the state of the
> Software window).


According to chatgpt, snaps are updated by the snapd process four times
a day. I can see snapd is running. I don't think I was using chromium at
the time. Is there a log I can check? I tried:

 snap logs snapd
error: snap "snapd" has no services

snap logs chromium
error: snap "chromium" has no services