Chromium snap package was out of date

[Tommy Trussell]

On Thu, Aug 29, 2024 at 1:27 PM Richmond via ubuntu-users <
ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:

> 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:
> >     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     updated for 5 days and was out of date:

 ...


> >
> > 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.

...

> 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
>

[ I have never used chatgpt. I do not trust it. Sorry I had to get that off
my chest. ]

OK, so I just read the man page for snap, followed the link from the man
page to the documentation, read some documentation, and then did a Google
search to find a relevant AskUbuntu Stack Exchange entry. Here's my custom
ChatTommyT suggestion:

If your chromium snap has not updated, open a terminal and try this:

$ sudo snap refresh chromium

If there is a running process keeping the snap from updating, the results
of the above snap command will indicate it. I think it will indicate the
PID of the blocking process to help you kill it. (But before randomly
killing off processes, you might look a bit to see if there's a good reason
things are still running, or maybe they're just "stuck.") [Personally, I'd
use the ps -ux command before killing anything to have a quick look at ALL
the things running under my login, but that's only because I've been
tinkering with stuff since the 1980s, and I hope someday I will understand
more of it. You can get the same listing using the System Monitor app, and
you might even be able to kill it from that application.]

Finally, you might also check to make certain the snap is on the expected
"channel" (normally "stable," but for example could be "beta" or "edge,")
for the Chromium snap.

$ snap list chromium
Name      Version        Rev   Tracking       Publisher   Notes
chromium  128.0.6613.84  2934  latest/stable  canonical✓  -
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