Comment 5 for bug 1767276

I was in fact affected by this bug, which is definitely a duplicate of https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1734147 as the fix worked great for me. I installed the first kernel, booted into it, had dpkg try again and everything worked. Booting back into the regular kernel was a snap and I purged the temporary kernel and fixed up the /vmlinuz and /initrd.img symlinks and rebooted cleanly.

The bug does mention that if you have trouble there is a second kernel to try. I had no issues using the first linked kernel http://people.canonical.com/~ypwong/lp1734147/linux-image-4.15.0-041500rc6-generic_4.15.0-041500rc6.201712312330+20170103+1_amd64.deb