I’m trying to remove the snap “firefox” on Ubuntu 22.10. Unfortunately, an error prevents the task from being completed.
# snap list
Nome Versione Rev Tracciamento Publisher Note
bare 1.0 5 latest/stable canonical? base
core 16-2.58.2 14784 latest/stable canonical? core
core18 20230207 2697 latest/stable canonical? base
core20 20230126 1822 latest/stable canonical? base
firefox 106.0-1 1969 latest/stable/? mozilla? -
gnome-3-38-2004 0+git.6f39565 119 latest/stable canonical? -
gtk-common-themes 0.1-81-g442e511 1535 latest/stable canonical? -
hello-world 6.4 29 latest/stable canonical? -
snap-store 41.3-66-gfe1e325 638 latest/stable canonical? -
snapd 2.58.2 18357 latest/stable canonical? snapd
when I invoke Firefox, it starts correctly. At this point, I tried to remove the snap firefox like this :
$ snap remove --purge firefox
but it does not want to do it :
error: cannot perform the following tasks:
- Remove data for snap 'firefox' (1969) (unlinkat /var/snap/firefox/common/host-hunspell/en_US.aff: read-only file system)
I've found this helpful question and so,this is what I did :
root@marietto-BHYVE:/etc/systemd/system# lsblk -fe7 -o+ro
NAME FSTYPE FSVER LABEL UUID FSAVAIL FSUSE% MOUNTPOINTS RO
vda 0
--vda1
vfat FAT32 A17A-EEFA 504,9M 1% /boot/efi 0
--vda2
ext4 1.0 2e254150-7969-4cbb-bf4c-9b9e0bf9ef64 160,8G 13% /var/snap/firefox/common/host-hunspell
/ 0
# sudo systemctl stop var-snap-firefox-common-host\\x2dhunspell.mount
Warning: The unit file, source configuration file or drop-ins of var-snap-firefox-common-host\x2dhunspell.mount changed on disk. Run 'systemctl daemon-reload' to reload units.
root@marietto-BHYVE:/etc/systemd/system# systemctl daemon-reload
root@marietto-BHYVE:/etc/systemd/system# lsblk -fe7 -o+ro
NAME FSTYPE FSVER LABEL UUID FSAVAIL FSUSE% MOUNTPOINTS RO
vda 0
--vda1
vfat FAT32 A17A-EEFA 504,9M 1% /boot/efi 0
--vda2
ext4 1.0 2e254150-7969-4cbb-bf4c-9b9e0bf9ef64 160,8G 13% / 0
root@marietto-BHYVE:/etc/systemd/system# snap remove firefox
2023-02-24T14:06:57+01:00 ERROR cannot remove snap file "firefox", will retry in 3 mins: unlinkat /snap/firefox/1969/data-dir: read-only file system.
