Comment 12 for bug 1873550

Sorry if I wasn't clear on this, but if you upgraded from 19.10 to 20.04 then AFAIK you will not have gotten the snapd snap at all. The snapd snap will only automatically get installed with a fresh, recent, installation. I don't have a more precise definition of "recent", other than the released images have the snapd snap and some older pre-release ones don't have the snapd snap.

Paul, are you saying that you see this slowdown at boot on your installations that were upgrades (and thus don't have the snapd snap, but instead have the core snap)?

Also to clarify an earlier point I made, the snapd.failure service does actually get installed with the snapd deb package or the core snap, it just effectively does nothing when the snapd snap is not installed. So the fact that it is run doesn't really affect anything. This bug is just about the fact that snapd is busy doing something when the system goes to shutdown, the fact that the snapd.failure.service not getting queued and thus not running is just a red herring here.