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Date:   Mon, 17 Oct 2022 14:59:29 +0100
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Subject: Re: BISECT result: 6.0.0-RC kernels trigger Firefox snap bug with
 6.0.0-rc3 through 6.0.0-rc7
To:     Mirsad Goran Todorovac <mirsad.todorovac@alu.unizg.hr>,
        regressions@leemhuis.info
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From:   Phillip Lougher <phillip@squashfs.org.uk>
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On 17/10/2022 14:22, Mirsad Goran Todorovac wrote:
> 
> On 16.10.2022. 21:55, Phillip Lougher wrote:
>> On 16/10/2022 16:55, Mirsad Goran Todorovac wrote:
>>> On 15. 10. 2022. 22:59, Phillip Lougher wrote:
>>
>> Tracking down bugs of this sort is always a process of elimination,
>> and gathering information to pinpoint the exact circumstances of why
>> it is triggering.
>>
>> Next step is to download the exact snap(s) where the problems are 
>> occurring, as this may provide some insights.
>>
>> I don't run Ubuntu, and I don't use snaps.  Can you provide the
>> download link(s) of the snap(s) that cause problems?  If there's
>> any firefox snaps that don't cause problems those will be useful
>> too.
>>
>> You don't mention if there's any errors present in "dmesg" when
>> this happens, and so I'm assuming there aren't any?
>>
>> Phillip
> 
> Snaps are originated in Ubuntu, and they heavily rely on snapd, and 
> squashfs for decompressing executables.
> Naturally, this also affects Linux Mint as Ubuntu's fork.
> 
> Those two comprise a large share of the Linux distros, and Firefox is 
> exclusively distributed in snaps.

I know you meant well, but, don't talk to me as if I'm the village
idiot.

I said I don't run snaps or Ubuntu, which is nothing to do with lack of
understanding (*)

I'll contact a couple of people in Canonical to obtain what I need.

(*) I worked as a kernel maintainer for Canonical (Ubuntu) from 2007/8
and I worked as a kernel maintainer for Redhat on RHEL (which Centos
is a free version) from 2011 - 2019.  This is addition to writing and
maintaining Squashfs in the upstream kernel.