{"id":167,"date":"2023-10-04T15:30:15","date_gmt":"2023-10-04T19:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/triosdevelopers.com\/J.Smith\/rjeffsmith.ca\/wordpress\/?p=167"},"modified":"2024-10-11T09:30:03","modified_gmt":"2024-10-11T13:30:03","slug":"when-ubuntu-software-comes-up-empty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/triosdevelopers.com\/J.Smith\/rjeffsmith.ca\/wordpress\/?p=167","title":{"rendered":"when ubuntu software comes up empty"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Ubuntu Software aka Snap Store opens up essentially blank.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"ext-gen9152\">Close the Snap Store application<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Open the terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Type the command:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code><code>ps -ef|grep snap-store|grep -v grep<\/code><\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;to check if <code>snap-store<\/code> process is still running<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you get anything in the output, that indicates that <code>snap-store<\/code> is still running. The output may be like:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>username 24225 1871 2 21:41 ? 00:00:23 \/snap\/snap-store\/542\/usr\/bin\/snap-store<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>in that case type the command<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code><code>kill (number)<\/code><\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"ext-gen9153\">&#8230;where <code>number<\/code> is the <strong>first<\/strong> number shown in the line above, right after the username (in this case 24225)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>repeat step 3 to confirm that <code>snap-store<\/code> is not running anymore<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>type the command:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code><code>snap-store<\/code><\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p> &#8230;and watch the output for &#8220;access denied&#8221; messages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>#########<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Ubuntu 20.04LTS the app called &#8220;Ubuntu software&#8221; is in reality snap-store (the terminal command running it is &#8220;snap-store&#8221;, not &#8220;gnome-software&#8221;). Ubuntu 20.04 does not seem to come with gnome-software installed by default. For me, closing the app, then typing<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>killall snap-store<br><\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>in a terminal and then re-launching the app solved the problem without a reboot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ubuntu Software aka Snap Store opens up essentially blank. Close the Snap Store application Open the terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T) Type the command: &#8230;to check if snap-store process is still running If you get anything in the output, that indicates that snap-store is still running. The output may be like: username 24225 1871 2 21:41 ? 00:00:23 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-file-management"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/triosdevelopers.com\/J.Smith\/rjeffsmith.ca\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/triosdevelopers.com\/J.Smith\/rjeffsmith.ca\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/triosdevelopers.com\/J.Smith\/rjeffsmith.ca\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triosdevelopers.com\/J.Smith\/rjeffsmith.ca\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triosdevelopers.com\/J.Smith\/rjeffsmith.ca\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=167"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/triosdevelopers.com\/J.Smith\/rjeffsmith.ca\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":266,"href":"https:\/\/triosdevelopers.com\/J.Smith\/rjeffsmith.ca\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions\/266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/triosdevelopers.com\/J.Smith\/rjeffsmith.ca\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triosdevelopers.com\/J.Smith\/rjeffsmith.ca\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triosdevelopers.com\/J.Smith\/rjeffsmith.ca\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}