TVE snap / chromium issue

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#1

For the last couple of days I've been seeing a 503 services unavailable message when tuning any TVE channel for the first time in the morning. The log indicates:

2025/03/25 07:41:35.941307 [ERR] Could not start stream for TVE-ATTOTT ch6073 FNC: TVE: chrome failed to start:
/system.slice/channels-dvr.service is not a snap cgroup

My server OS is: Ubuntu 24.04 (kernel: 6.8.0-56-generic)

Running this command on the server:

sudo snap refresh chromium

Which normally responds with:

snap "chromium" has no updates available

Seems to resolve the issue for about a day.

Any idea what's causing this and is there something that can be done to resolve it?

#2

You should not be using Snap and Chromium .... Step-by-Step Guide: Installing Ubuntu Server, Channels DVR, and YTTV TVE - Hosting - Channels Community
Disabling SNAP

sudo rm -rf /var/cache/snapd/
sudo rm -rf ~/snap
sudo rm -rf /var/cache/snapd/
sudo apt-mark hold snapd

Installing Chrome

wget -q -O - https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub | sudo apt-key add -
sudo sh -c 'echo "deb [arch=amd64] http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google.list'
sudo apt update
sudo apt install google-chrome-stable
#3

Thanks Edwin! I seem to recall something about this. I haven't used TVE in well over a year but with the recent YT price hikes I decided to sideline my adbtuner setup and go back to a less expensive subscription.