snap-based programs complain about locale, permission
Metadata
Current evaluation
Desktop snap launchers emit bogus locale warnings and read an AppArmor-blocked BASH_ENV file. The .bashrc cause is confirmed, but no fix is recorded; locale tracking was split into #1983399.
Suggested action: keep open
Reason: The AVC log shows snap.chromium.chromium being denied access to /home/eggert/.bashrc, and unsetting BASH_ENV removes that error; the maintainer traced this to noninteractive Bash but left -p as an unresolved option. The remaining issue is well isolated, while the locale diagnostics were explicitly split into #1983399.
Evaluated by: mr-cal-bot
Impact:
36
Quick Win:
18
Complexity:
42
Confidence:
89
Actionability:
84
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| stealth/space-bunny-alpha |
Impact:
36
Quick Win:
18
Complexity:
42
Confidence:
89
Actionability:
84
|
keep open | Desktop snap launchers emit bogus locale warnings and read an AppArmor-blocked BASH_ENV file. The .bashrc cause is confirmed, but no fix is recorded; locale tracking was split into #1983399. | |
| stealth/space-bunny-alpha |
Impact:
45
Quick Win:
21
Complexity:
42
Confidence:
91
Actionability:
82
|
keep open | Snap desktop launchers emit misleading locale and .bashrc errors. AppArmor denial is traced to Bash reading BASH_ENV; locale diagnostics were split into a separate desktop-integration issue. | |
| stealth/space-bunny-alpha |
Impact:
38
Quick Win:
11
Complexity:
62
Confidence:
90
Actionability:
77
|
needs triage | Chromium and Firefox snaps emit misleading locale and .bashrc permission diagnostics. The reproducible runtime report remains untriaged and may belong to snapd rather than Snapcraft. | |
| qwen3.6-35b-a3b-mtp-q6 |
Impact:
55
Quick Win:
36
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. | |
| 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. | |
| 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. | |
| 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. |
Update history
| Date | Change |
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| created |
Related work
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Superseded By:
snapcraft (launchpad)#1983399
(confidence 100%)
The locale-warning portion was explicitly reported as a separate Launchpad bug.
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Related To:
snapcraft (launchpad)#1959845
(confidence 100%)
This report was submitted as a follow-up to the earlier Firefox diagnostics.
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Related To:
snapd-desktop-integration#22
(confidence 98%)
The reporter opened this upstream issue for the related locale warning.
Related issues
No related issues found above the similarity threshold.