LTS upgrade to 22.04 stuck on snapd restart

[Bret Busby]

On 6/9/22 06:02, MR ZenWiz wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 5, 2022 at 1:14 PM 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 asked the almighty oracle of the web for how to disable snaps.
> 
> This is one of many hits I found:
> https://onlinux.systems/guides/20220524_how-to-disable-and-remove-snap-on-ubuntu-2204
> 
> It seems to be fairly complete. It even includes instructions on how
> to get Firefox from the mozilla PPA.
> 
> I haven't had any trouble with it so far.
> 
> I can't speak for Thunderbird - I don't use it.
> 
> HTH.
> 
> Mark
> 

In the instructions for disabling the span c**p, it says to list and 
remove each snap package.

As the snap demon appears to have sensed that I intend to remove snap 
from my system, and has applied bogware, so that, amongst other problems 
now arisen, I can no longer load and run synaptic, to find what packages 
do, can someone please tell me whether, if I remove the following listed 
snap packages, it will break my system even further?

$snap list
Name                 Version           Rev    Tracking         Publisher 
       Notes
bare                 1.0               5      latest/stable 
canonical✓      base
core                 16-2.56.2         13425  latest/stable 
canonical✓      core
core18               20220830          2560   latest/stable 
canonical✓      base
core20               20220805          1611   latest/stable 
canonical✓      base
curl                 7.84.0            1093   latest/stable    woutervb 
        -
firefox              104.0-3           1749   latest/stable    mozilla✓ 
        -
gnome-3-38-2004      0+git.891e5bc     115    latest/stable 
canonical✓      -
gtk-common-themes    0.1-81-g442e511   1535   latest/stable 
canonical✓      -
midori               v8.0-31-gf6b3b1e  550    latest/stable    kalikiana 
       -
pulsemixer           1.5.1             283    latest/stable/… 
georgefilipkin  -
software-boutique    0+git.0fdcecc     57     latest/stable/… 
flexiondotorg   classic
ubuntu-mate-welcome  22.04.0-5b7bef38  709    latest/stable/… 
flexiondotorg   classic

I understand that firefox and midori are web browsers, and I do not know 
whether the gnome thing and the gtk-common-themes are required for the 
theme that I use, which is named TraditionalOk, so, I do not know 
whether removing those two packages, will disallow me from using the 
theme that I use, and, I do not whether the pulsemixer package is the 
current sound configurer that I use, to get extra high volume, and, I do 
not know what the other packages listed, do, and, so, I do not know what 
further harm will be done to the system, if I remove all of those 
packages, for which, apart from firefox I assume that no versions of the 
packages are available, that do not require snap.

Thank you in anticipation.

..
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
(UTC+0800)
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