I was the one who originally had this issue and tried to get help on IRC, so I can confirm that this happens on my system as well with ZFS (encrypted) when running "snap remove firefox" during the first boot.
I decided to reproduce it again in order to submit my information but "apport-collect 1970066" suggested that I create a separate report. When I then ran "apport-bug snapd" it failed (see attached screenshot) with a FileNotFoundError. When I then tried to let apport-collect send my info anyway then it also failed: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/apport/apport-gtk", line 597, in <module> app.run_argv() File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/apport/ui.py", line 719, in run_argv return self.run_update_report() File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/apport/ui.py", line 604, in run_update_report apport.packaging.get_version(p) File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/apport/packaging_impl.py", line 163, in get_version pkg = self._apt_pkg(package) File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/apport/packaging_impl.py", line 156, in _apt_pkg return self._cache()[package] File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/apport/packaging_impl.py", line 121, in _cache self._apt_cache = apt.Cache(progress, rootdir='/') File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/apt/cache.py", line 143, in __init__ self._check_and_create_required_dirs(rootdir) File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/apt/cache.py", line 186, in _check_and_create_required_dirs open(rootdir + f, "w").close() PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '//var/lib/dpkg/status' ** Attachment added: "This happened when I ran "apport-bug snapd"." https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/snapd/+bug/1970066/+attachment/5582938/+files/Screenshot%20from%202022-04-24%2008-32-24.png -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1970066 Title: removing firefox snap after fresh 22.04 install with (encrypted) ZFS breaks APT, snapd To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/snapd/+bug/1970066/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs