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I have wanted to remove "steam" from snap so I started with snap list and I got:

Name                    Version          Rev    Tracking            Publisher   Notes
bare                    1.0              5      latest/stable       canonical✓  base
core                    16-2.59.5        15511  latest/stable       canonical✓  core
core20                  20230622         1974   latest/stable       canonical✓  base
core22                  20230612         766    latest/stable       canonical✓  base
firefox                 115.0-2          2850   latest/stable/…     mozilla✓    -
gaming-graphics-core22  23.1.2~kisak1~j  76     kisak-fresh/stable  canonical✓  -
gnome-3-38-2004         0+git.6f39565    140    latest/stable/…     canonical✓  -
gnome-42-2204           0+git.ff35a85    120    latest/stable       canonical✓  -
gtk-common-themes       0.1-81-g442e511  1535   latest/stable/…     canonical✓  -
snapd                   2.59.5           19457  latest/stable       canonical✓  snapd
steam                   1.0.0.76         146    latest/stable       canonical✓  -
viber-unofficial        0.1              37     latest/stable       uglide      -

Then I did snap remove snap remove steam, but it stucks on this:

Save data of snap "steam" in automatic snapshot set #1 After some time I tried to restart PC, to turn it off and so on, after that I tried 2-3 times to do the same, with same result, it just stuck on that.

Then I tried to see what happened with snap so I did snap changes and got this:

ID   Status  Spawn                    Ready                    Summary
36   Error   yesterday at 21:38 EEST  yesterday at 21:44 EEST  Remove "steam" snap
37   Error   yesterday at 21:44 EEST  yesterday at 22:07 EEST  Remove "steam" snap
38   Done    yesterday at 21:44 EEST  yesterday at 21:45 EEST  Auto-refresh snaps "firefox", "gnome-42-2204"
39   Error   yesterday at 22:10 EEST  yesterday at 22:33 EEST  Remove "steam" snap

So I tried to abort them with sudo snap abort 36 (or any other number) but I got:

error: cannot abort change 36 with nothing pending

So .. right now I'm stucked on it, Cannot remove steam, cannot abort actions, nothing .. If I try to remove steam it just stuck again and create new snap changes...

MorganFreeFarm
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    It's creating a snapshot of your data in case you need it when reinstalling that package again later ... It can take a long time with some packages, but you can skip it with sudo snap remove --purge steam – Raffa Jul 12 '23 at 17:38

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the snap changes is just a log in history, if there is nothing in state "doing" currently, you have nothing to abort and you should be able to remove or install. I had the same problem, and even after I restarted the PC I found one change in state "doing" so I just aborted this one instead of the "error" one

Jozák
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