Installing && Purging Brave Snap breaks apt packaged brave app

[AtFreezingPoint]

Description

Purging the Snap Store "Brave" package/app version of the app, including after apt reinstall.

Steps to reproduce

1. Install apt brave-browser package
2. Install snap brave package
3. snap remove --purge brave
4. Broken desktop brave

Actual result

Desktop brave breaks, gives out permission errors.

Expected result

Not broken

Reproduces how often

Easily reproduced

Brave version (brave://version info)

1.68.128

Channel information

• release (stable)
• beta
• nightly

Reproducibility

• with Brave Shields disabled
• with Brave Rewards disabled
• in the latest version of Chrome

Miscellaneous information

Linux Only

Tested on KUbuntu

[rebron]

cc: @wknapik

[wknapik]

Can't reproduce.

Created a fresh Ubuntu 24.04 VM, installed the native package, customized config, installed the snap package, customized config, removed the snap package (including --purge), the native package was unaffected.

[AtFreezingPoint]

Can't reproduce.

Created a fresh Ubuntu 24.04 VM, installed the native package, customized config, installed the snap package, customized config, removed the snap package (including --purge), the native package was unaffected.

I'll try reproducing some time this week. Let's not close yet...