Snap Contains Wrong Symlink For Thunderbird

[rht53]

I do not know if this is the correct forum because the only computer I have working ATM is very flaky due to a stuff up by snap. On 25 July 2026 snap did an auto update and created a symlink for thunderbird "current" to an empty directory [1201]. As a result thunderbird and many other applications do not work correctly. The correct destination of the symling should be to "common" or to a subdirectory downstream from there. I have just done an update to snap via Discover (which since 25 July has been throwing false "failure" error messages) -- the symlink has been changed (ie, removed and recreated) to 1228, a new empty directory. My question is simple: Do I change the symlink to "common" or "common/thunderbird" or to one of the esr directories further downstream? Commonsense says "common/thunderbird" but I am disabled and cannot afford to lose those applications that are still working.

BTW, for legal reasons I cannot reinstall [k]ubuntu or snap or thunderbird on this computer.

TIA

[claydoh]

You will want to pester the Snapcraft folks, as this would be specific to this packaging, and not to any distro.

Do I change the symlink to "common" or "common/thunderbird" or to one of the esr directories further downstream?

No.

Are you sure the 1228 dir is actually empty? It has hidden dirs for me here. alt-period will toggle this off and on, if you have not checked this as of yet.

As a result thunderbird and many other applications do not work correctly.

What do you mean by this?

My system has no issues, and Tbird runs fine on my 26.04 PC, though I don't actually use it much at all, I am a bit of a masochist and use Kmail