Re-targetting at snapd. (I think snapd does run a refresh at boot time, so I'm not sure what happened in your case, but this is the first report of this kind I'm seeing)
** Package changed: chromium-browser (Ubuntu) => snapd (Ubuntu) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to chromium-browser in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1875340 Title: snap refresh schedule allows laptops to miss updates Status in snapd package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: Hi, I may have missed something somewhere, but I recently came across a problem with our laptop. This machine is currently running Kubuntu 19.10 but it emerged that the version of Chromium installed dated back to Dec 2019. On my desktop machine (also running Kubuntu 19.10), Chromium was at the latest version. Having consulted the docs I ran a manual refresh of Chromium and the latest version was installed. This begs the question; why were able to use the machine for nearly five months without snap refreshing Chromium? After further research I suspect this is due to the way in which snaps are automatically refreshed; by default this is four times a day between midnight and midnight, eg every 6 hours. (There seems to be some randomisation introduced because running 'snap refresh --timer' does not return times of 0000, 0600, 1200 or 1800.) My suspicion is that this has come about because our laptop rarely runs for six hours at a time; typically it is switched on, used for an hour or two (sometimes much less) and then shut down again. The problem that I see with this is that in these days of people owning multiple devices this use-case is probably quite common. I have seen in the docs that I can change the refresh cycle to be more aligned to the times that we use the machine, but before they can do that, people will need to realise that they need to. I only found this out by accident. Not everyone who runs Linux is a software developer or system administrator (I'm not, I'm a retired systems engineer from the test industry), so are unlikely to read the docs for snapd. Can I suggest that snapd runs an automatic refresh within 30 minutes of boot up, to try to prevent this problem? To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/snapd/+bug/1875340/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
