No, sadly it got deleted by accident. Let's close this and if it ever
happens again I'll let you know :-)

On Tue, Sep 13, 2016 at 9:08 AM, Paweł Stołowski <[email protected]
> wrote:

> Hi Roberto. It's very probable that this problem was fixed, but with no
> clear steps for reproducing it's hard to verify. Do you still have this
> snap around and can re-try with the current version of snapd?
>
> ** Changed in: snapd (Ubuntu)
>        Status: New => Incomplete
>
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> Title:
>   Circular symlinks break snapd
>
> Status in snapd package in Ubuntu:
>   Incomplete
>
> Bug description:
>   I seem to have managed to create a snap that contains a circular
>   symlink, and it totally breaks snapd, it cannot be removed, or
>   upgraded.
>
>   Here's an example of what happens:
>
>   $ snap install nikola*snap
>
>   Name    Version  Rev  Developer  Notes
>   nikola  7.7.9    x1              -
>   ralsina@clakker:~/canonical/nikola-snap$ snap remove nikola*snap
>   error: cannot remove "nikola_7.7.9_amd64.snap": cannot find snap
> "nikola_7.7.9_amd64.snap"
>   ralsina@clakker:~/canonical/nikola-snap$ snap remove nikola
>
>   error: cannot perform the following tasks:
>   - Remove data for snap "nikola" (lstat /home/ralsina/snap/nikola/x1/
> snap/nikola/x1/snap/[...]/nikola/x1/snap/nikola/x1/snap/nikola/x1/snap/nikola/x1/snap:
> file name too long)
>
>   I have no idea how I caused that, here's the snapcraft.yaml
>
>   name: nikola
>   version: 7.7.9
>   summary: A static website generator
>   description: A static website generator
>   confinement: devmode
>
>   apps:
>       nikola:
>            command: usr/bin/nikola
>
>   parts:
>       nikola:
>           plugin: python3
>           source: git://github.com/getnikola/nikola.git
>           requirements: requirements-extras.txt
>           build-packages: [libxml2-dev, libxslt1-dev, zlib1g-dev, cython3,
> libfontconfig1-dev, libfreetype6-dev, libice-dev, libjbig-dev,
> liblcms2-dev, liblzma-dev, libpng12-dev, libjpeg8-dev, gcc]
>
>   I can attach the snap if needed but it's rather large (65MB)
>
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