snap-based programs complain about locale, permission

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Project: snapcraft (launchpad)
Number: #1982401
Type: issue
State: open
Author: ~mardy
Labels: —
Created: 2022-07-20 04:16 PM UTC
Updated: 2022-10-03 07:26 PM UTC
Closed: —

Current evaluation

Snap-based programs (Chromium, Firefox) report locale and .bashrc permission errors when executed. Issue is 1505 days old with no maintainer engagement, labels, or comments.

Suggested action: needs triage

Reason: The issue has no labels, no maintainer comments, and no assignee, indicating it has not been triaged. Despite being 1505 days old, there's no evidence it has been resolved or is no longer relevant. The issue concerns snapd behavior when running snap packages, which may require clarification on whether this belongs in the snapcraft repository or should be redirected to snapd.

Impact: 55 Quick Win: 35.75 Staleness: 85 Complexity: 35 Confidence: 65 Support Request: 25

Issue body

This is a followup to Launchpad Bug#1959845, with more information about the bug. I am running Ubuntu 22.04 LTS on x86-64 with current patches. I have snapd 2.55.5+22.04. When I run the shell command "chromium --version" and attempt to debug the resulting situation a bit, I see the following: $ chromium --version /bin/bash: warning: setlocale: LC_ALL: cannot change locale (en_US.utf8) /bin/bash: /home/eggert/.bashrc: Permission denied Chromium 103.0.5060.114 snap $ echo $SHELL /bin/bash $ ls -l $HOME/.bashrc -r--r--r-- 1 eggert eggert 420 Apr 25 2002 /home/eggert/.bashrc $ env | grep en_US LC_ALL=en_US.utf8 $ locale LANG=C LANGUAGE= LC_CTYPE="en_US.utf8" LC_NUMERIC="en_US.utf8" LC_TIME="en_US.utf8" LC_COLLATE="en_US.utf8" LC_MONETARY="en_US.utf8" LC_MESSAGES="en_US.utf8" LC_PAPER="en_US.utf8" LC_NAME="en_US.utf8" LC_ADDRESS="en_US.utf8" LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.utf8" LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.utf8" LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.utf8" LC_ALL=en_US.utf8 $ locale -a | grep en_US en_US.iso885915 en_US.utf8 $ LC_ALL=C chromium --version /bin/bash: /home/eggert/.bashrc: Permission denied Chromium 103.0.5060.114 snap As you can see, I get some bogus diagnostics about the locale and the .bashrc permissions. My locale is fine - though evidently snap packages can't use it. I do have a .bashrc file. This file is not executable and it shouldn't be executable as it's not intended to be a standalone command. It has worked just fine for decades, when I log in via Bash or run Bash in the usual way. I reported a similar problem with Firefox in Launchpad Bug#1959845, and the response was "this is a bug with the snap packaging of Firefox, not with snapd. Please file a bug with Mozilla upstream". Although I did so here: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1753320 their response was that it wasn't a Firefox bug. And now that I see a similar problem with Chromium it appears that this is a snapd issue, not an issue with individual programs.

Evaluation history

Date	Model	Scores	Action	Summary
2026-09-03 03:55 PM UTC	qwen3.6-35b-a3b-mtp-q6	Impact: 55 Quick Win: 35.75 Staleness: 85 Complexity: 35 Confidence: 65 Support Request: 25	needs triage	Snap-based programs (Chromium, Firefox) report locale and .bashrc permission errors when executed. Issue is 1505 days old with no maintainer engagement, labels, or comments.
2026-07-23 02:12 PM UTC	qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b	Staleness: 95 Complexity: 45 Confidence: 85 Support Request: 20	close stale	User reports snap-based programs trigger bash locale and .bashrc permission warnings. Unlabelled, no maintainer comments, inactive for ~4 years.
2026-07-22 02:45 PM UTC	qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b	Staleness: 95 Complexity: 60 Confidence: 80 Support Request: 10	close stale	Snap-based programs trigger bash warnings about locale and .bashrc permissions. The report is unlabelled, has zero maintainer comments, and has been inactive for over four years.
2026-07-10 06:41 AM UTC	qwen3.6-35b-a3b-mtp-q6	Staleness: 95 Complexity: 60 Confidence: 85 Support Request: 15	needs triage	Reports snapd spawning bash with incorrect locale and false permission denied warnings for .bashrc when running snap packages. Untriaged, no maintainer comments, over 3 years old.
2026-06-21 09:14 PM UTC	qwen3.6-35b-a3b-mtp-q6	Staleness: 90 Complexity: 55 Confidence: 70 Support Request: 15	needs triage	Unlabelled issue reporting snapd runtime warnings about locale and .bashrc permissions when running snap packages. No maintainer response or comments in over three years, requiring initial assessment to verify current reproducibility.

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