Chrome failed to start: /system.slice/channels-dvr.service is not a snap cgroup

[scottw]

Today I noticed Philo not allowing me to watch specific streams, specifically AMC

From the server support log:
2025/11/09 21:24:48.600037 [TVE] action=authz_retry err=adobe.pendingLogout reason=34764
2025/11/09 21:24:48.708540 [TVE] action=auth mvpd=Philo requestor=AMC
2025/11/09 21:24:48.838134 [ERR] Could not start stream for TVE-Philo ch6086 AMC: TVE: chrome failed to start:
/system.slice/channels-dvr.service is not a snap cgroup

Saw the stupid 'snap group' message appear. I've been fighting snap ever since upgrading to Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS.

I thought, I will refresh my Philo password, do a channel scan and everything will be fine.

The opposite actually happened. Now when I go into the Philo source to review the channels - every channel shows this message:
"chrome failed to start: /system.slice/channels-dvr.service is not a snap cgroup"

I'm so tired of fighting Ubuntu and Chrome and these snap groups/cgroups.

is there anyway around this?

[scottw]

Followed the instructions at this post (which I've done in the past)

503 errors on TVE and channels-dvr.service is not a snap cgroup

TVE seems to work sometimes and then all of the sudden it starts with 503 errors on the TV screen and the logs have snap cgroup errors. This is on Ubuntu Linux and Channels 2025.01.18.0528 2025/01/31 17:54:11.033559 [TVE] action=authz_retry err=adobe.pendingLogout reason=34764 2025/01/31 17:54:11.099415 [TVE] action=auth mvpd=ski020 requestor=nbcentertainment 2025/01/31 17:54:11.718733 [ERR] Could not start stream for TVE-ski020 ch6037 TRU: TVE: chrome failed to start: /system.slice/channels…

Then when those steps were completed - from the server page -> troubleshooting -> update chrome.

Then I rescanned the channels from the Philo source and everything seems to be working again.