Comment 3 for bug 1860324

snapd is indeed dead and refuses to start, but here's the "snap debug state" output:

$ sudo snap debug state /var/lib/snapd/state.json
ID Status Spawn Ready Label Summary
1271 Done 3 days ago, at 22:37 GMT 3 days ago, at 22:40 GMT auto-refresh Auto-refresh snaps "core", "juju"
1272 Done 2 days ago, at 15:59 GMT 2 days ago, at 15:59 GMT configure-snap Change configuration of "core" snap
1273 Done 2 days ago, at 16:24 GMT 2 days ago, at 16:24 GMT refresh-snap Refresh snap "gitlptools"
1274 Done 2 days ago, at 16:25 GMT 2 days ago, at 16:29 GMT refresh-snap Refresh "lxd" snap from "candidate" channel
1275 Done yesterday at 22:16 GMT yesterday at 22:16 GMT auto-refresh Auto-refresh snap "gitlptools"
1276 Done today at 09:51 GMT today at 09:51 GMT refresh-snap Refresh snap "gitlptools"
1277 Doing today at 09:52 GMT 0000-12-31 refresh-snap Refresh "gitlptools" snap
$ sudo snap debug state /var/lib/snapd/state.json --change=1277
Lanes ID Status Spawn Ready Kind Summary
0 8234 Done today at 09:52 GMT today at 09:52 GMT refresh-aliases Refresh aliases for snap "gitlptools"
0 8235 Doing today at 09:52 GMT 0000-12-31 check-rerefresh Consider re-refresh of "gitlptools"
0 8236 Do today at 09:52 GMT 0000-12-31 switch-snap-channel Switch snap "gitlptools" from channel "latest/stable" to "stable"