Comment 29 for bug 1621336

It has been brought to my attention the following from someone who also tried the 2.17.1 package :

"I'm glad to announce that I could test the procedure during the boot (same conditions as when everything hang) ... It works ! YES!!

# sudo apt-cache policy snapd
snapd:
  Installed: 2.17.1
  Candidate: 2.17.1
  Version table:
 *** 2.17.1 500
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-proposed/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     2.16ubuntu3 500
        500 http://ch.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/main amd64 Packages
     2.0.2 500
        500 http://ch.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 Packages"

Eric