Comment 5 for bug 1402767

I have experienced these symptoms with Mint 18.0 on my Thinkpad T420 laptop. I would get the Cinnamon crash on about half of the boots.
I have applied the fix described in the following link, and it seems to be a work-around for the problem:
https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxmint/comments/4so1xz/mint_18_cinnamon_sometimes_crashes_on_boot_solved/

Please contact me if you would like more information, any logs, etc.