snap-confine has elevated permissions and is not confined but should be.

PsychoHermit · 05-03-2022, 12:08 PM

Greetings folks,

I'm having problems with snapd. This is what I get launching firefox from CLI. Running ubuntu 22.04

Code:

snap-confine has elevated permissions and is not confined but should be. Refusing to continue to avoid permission escalation attacks

Reinstalling it cures the problem but this is an every boot occurrence and it's a hassle reinstalling, not to mention wear and tear on my ssd.

I would really appreciate it if someone could point out a fix for this.

Thanks in advance,
--glenn

boughtonp · 05-04-2022, 10:49 AM

Isn't this the same issue you posted last week ?

https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/ubuntu-63/what-is-snap-confine-4175711259

PsychoHermit · 05-04-2022, 11:52 AM

No, I don't think so.

PsychoHermit · 05-04-2022, 03:12 PM

A clean reinstall cured it, so it's solved. Some setting somewhere was messed up, but no telling what it was.

well crap, it cured it for a little while, but it's doing it again now.

--glenn

ondoho · 05-05-2022, 10:39 PM

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Originally Posted by PsychoHermit

No, I don't think so.

Um, yes it is:

Quote:

Originally Posted by PsychoHermit

Brave, mozilla and the snap-store refuse to run claiming that snap-confine has elevated privileges and may have an elevation of privileges attack.

Thanks,
--glenn