Sorry for the trouble, James. A reboot is the most trivial workaround, and the fix is being released.
We got bitten by a misbehavior in systemd, which got hidden due to lack of testing for double updates (update, and update again on itself).
Here are the details:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/snapd/+bug/1756793
Sorry for the trouble, James. A reboot is the most trivial workaround, and the fix is being released.
We got bitten by a misbehavior in systemd, which got hidden due to lack of testing for double updates (update, and update again on itself).
Here are the details:
https:/ /bugs.launchpad .net/ubuntu/ +source/ snapd/+ bug/1756793