Ubuntu-budgie-welcome does not start anymore

Budgie Welcome
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Hello dear community,

within my Ubuntu Budgie installation, the ubuntu-budgie-welcome snap does not start anymore. It just quits with the following terminal message:

# The command to run comes from the freedesktop file provided
$ env BAMF_DESKTOP_FILE_HINT=/var/lib/snapd/desktop/applications/ubuntu-budgie-welcome_budgie-welcome.desktop /snap/bin/ubuntu-budgie-welcome.budgie-welcome %U
snap-confine has elevated permissions and is not confined but should be. Refusing to continue to avoid permission escalation attacks

What a pity! Without the Welcome App I don’t see any other way to manage Budgie applets? Or is there another way?

On the search for a solution I already tried the following from Ask Ubuntu:

$ sudo apt purge snapd snap-confine && sudo apt install -y snapd

But that didn’t help, at all. Any further suggestions are appreciated. Hopefully someone can help?

Thank in advance

All the best,
Markus

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Please also check and if need be start apparmor as per https://askubuntu.com/questions/1074114/snap-refuses-to-launch-applications

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Ah, snap. Indeed, I intentionally stopped the apparmor.service to get LighDM’s guest session working. See Enabling Guest Session for LightDM

Now that I started AppArmor back again, all the snaps (including) Budgie’s Welcome App are working properly. But now I have a XOR situation :slight_smile: I can’t get both (guest session and snap) working at the same time :frowning: for snap works with and guest session works without AppArmor, only.

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Disabling apparmor is a real sledgehammer approach from the guest issue. I strongly suspect creating apparmor rules for the guest session is required … I.e. bit like a firewall … poking holes via apparmor to allow the guest session through the apparmor ‘shield’

What those apparmor rules are though is way above my experience though.