Some other cruft is also left after snapd is purged: $ sudo apt-get purge snapd Reading package lists... Building dependency tree... Reading state information... The following packages will be REMOVED snapd* 0 to upgrade, 0 to newly install, 1 to remove and 0 not to upgrade. After this operation, 23.0 MB disk space will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] (Reading database ... 177595 files and directories currently installed.) Removing snapd (2.0.10) ... Warning: Stopping snapd.service, but it can still be activated by: snapd.socket Purging configuration files for snapd (2.0.10) ... dpkg: warning: while removing snapd, directory '/var/lib/snapd' not empty so not removed Processing triggers for man-db (2.7.5-1) ...
Left behind are: Broken symlinks: $ ls -l /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/*snapd* lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 39 Jul 15 10:36 /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/snapd.refresh.timer -> /lib/systemd/system/snapd.refresh.timer lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 33 Jul 15 10:36 /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/snapd.service -> /lib/systemd/system/snapd.service $ ls -l /etc/systemd/system/sockets.target.wants/*snapd* lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 32 Jul 15 10:36 /etc/systemd/system/sockets.target.wants/snapd.socket -> /lib/systemd/system/snapd.socket Files: $ ls -l /var/lib/systemd/deb-systemd-helper-enabled/*snapd* -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 64 Jul 15 10:36 /var/lib/systemd/deb-systemd-helper-enabled/snapd.refresh.timer.dsh-also -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 58 Jul 15 10:36 /var/lib/systemd/deb-systemd-helper-enabled/snapd.service.dsh-also -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 54 Jul 15 10:36 /var/lib/systemd/deb-systemd-helper-enabled/snapd.socket.dsh-also $ ls -l /var/lib/systemd/deb-systemd-helper-enabled/multi-user.target.wants/*snapd* -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jul 15 10:36 /var/lib/systemd/deb-systemd-helper-enabled/multi-user.target.wants/snapd.refresh.timer -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jul 15 10:36 /var/lib/systemd/deb-systemd-helper-enabled/multi-user.target.wants/snapd.service $ ls -l /var/lib/systemd/deb-systemd-helper-enabled/sockets.target.wants/*snapd* -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jul 15 10:36 /var/lib/systemd/deb-systemd-helper-enabled/sockets.target.wants/snapd.socket $ ls -l /var/lib/systemd/timers/*snapd* -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jul 15 10:37 /var/lib/systemd/timers/stamp-snapd.refresh.timer A socket: $ ls -l /run/*snapd* srw-rw-rw- 1 root root 0 Jul 15 10:37 /run/snapd.socket And the aforementioned directory: $ ls -laR /var/lib/snapd/ /var/lib/snapd/: total 12 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Jul 15 10:40 . drwxr-xr-x 72 root root 4096 Jul 15 10:36 .. drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Jul 15 10:37 assertions /var/lib/snapd/assertions: total 16 drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Jul 15 10:37 . drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Jul 15 10:40 .. drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jul 15 10:37 asserts-v0 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jul 15 10:37 private-keys-v0 /var/lib/snapd/assertions/asserts-v0: total 8 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jul 15 10:37 . drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Jul 15 10:37 .. /var/lib/snapd/assertions/private-keys-v0: total 8 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jul 15 10:37 . drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Jul 15 10:37 .. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1573767 Title: apt-get purge snapd does not clear /var/lib/snapd To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/snapd/+bug/1573767/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
