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Description of problem: All snap GUI apps went missing after I ran a series of fresh updates on Fedora 28 beta last night. Spotify, Telegram, and Todoist, all installed from snap store, are now gone from applications listing in Gnome. There are also no more .desktop files in /usr/share/applications or ~/.local/usr/share/applications. The applications are still visible in gnome-software, are installed, and can be launched from the Terminal. Uninstalling and then re-installing the applications did not help. Uninstalling and then re-install snapd and the applications did not help. I suspect one of the updates broke snap GUI apps. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): snap 2.32.4-1.fc28 snapd 2.32.4-1.fc28 series 16 fedora 28 kernel 4.16.2-300.fc28.x86_64 How reproducible: All snap-based GUI apps are missing. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install snapd and gnome-software-snap. 2. Install any snap GUI app from gnome-software, e.g. Telegram Desktop. Actual results: There are no .desktop files created. Expected results: Snap GUI apps and their icons appear in Gnome.
Created attachment 1424565 [details] yum history
Created attachment 1424566 [details] yum history info 28
Created attachment 1424567 [details] yum history info 28
The weird thing is from what I can tell none of the two most recent updates on my Fedora 28 machine, that may have introduced this bug, touched snapd as far as I can tell. I have attached my yum history and package listing in those upgrades.
I was not able to reproduce this with the following steps. Installed Fedora 28 beta. Installed snapd gnome-software-snap Restarted GNOME Software Enabled 3rd party repos Used GNOME Software to install Telegram Desktop from snap store Checked the icon appears and works Did a full update with dnf Rebooted I still see Telegram in the menu. I took snapshots all along the way, so happy to provide more debug info if needed.
(In reply to Alan Pope from comment #5) It's frustrating when it's not reproducible across systems. This is what I've just tried: sudo dnf upgrade sudo dnf remove snapd gnome-software-snap sudo rm -r /var/lib/snapd* sudo rm -r /etc/snap* sudo shutdown -r now sudo dnf install snapd gnome-software-snap gnome-software (restart gnome-software) sudo shutdown -r now gnome-software (install todoist-thibaut) (see log 1) sudo shutdown -r now (nothing in gnome applications or .desktop files) gnome-software (install telegram desktop) (see log 2) (still nothing in gnome applications or .desktop files) See logs attached. I don't see anything going wrong during installation. Permissions appear fine on the .desktop folders.
Created attachment 1424623 [details] /usr/share/applications files and permissions
Created attachment 1424624 [details] ~/.local/share/applications files and permissions
Created attachment 1424625 [details] log from install of todoist
Created attachment 1424626 [details] log from install of telegram
Created attachment 1424628 [details] dnf list installed
What's the value of XDG_DATA_DIRS? Does it contain the path to /var/lib/snapd/desktop ?
(In reply to Alan Pope from comment #12) > What's the value of XDG_DATA_DIRS? Does it contain the path to > /var/lib/snapd/desktop ? hayden@fedora ~> printenv XDG_DATA_DIRS /home/hayden/.local/share/flatpak/exports/share/:/var/lib/flatpak/exports/share/:/usr/local/share/:/usr/share/
There's your problem. Something nerfed /var/lib/snapd/desktop from the end of that search path.
I am unable to reproduce on a fresh install of Fedora 28. It's very possible the above might be the culprit. Please close this bug for now unless someone else runs into it.
This is most likely because it looks like you're not using Bash, and we don't provide profile snippets for other shells.