diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 5b047cab..4230dd58 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -5,6 +5,14 @@ livecd-rootfs (2.543) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
   * Add support for raspi3 rootfs builds (based on Ryan Finnie).
   * For ubuntu-image consumption, export the kernel and initrd to
     image/boot/uboot for raspi*.
+  * vagrant: disabling automatic console log file
+
+  [ Łukasz 'sil2100' Zemczak ]
+  * Avoid issues of hard-linking to a symbolic vmlinuz as this can lead to a
+    dangling symlink.
+  * Add support for raspi3 rootfs builds (based on Ryan Finnie).
+  * For ubuntu-image consumption, export the kernel and initrd to
+    image/boot/uboot for raspi*.
 
  -- Łukasz 'sil2100' Zemczak <lukasz.zemczak@ubuntu.com>  Tue, 18 Sep 2018 10:21:30 +0200
 
diff --git a/live-build/auto/build b/live-build/auto/build
index 2e5adc94..5b557226 100755
--- a/live-build/auto/build
+++ b/live-build/auto/build
@@ -565,6 +565,7 @@ fi
 
 # '--initramfs none' produces different manifest names.
 if [ -e "binary/$INITFS/filesystem.packages" ]; then
+	./config/snap-seed-parse "chroot/" >> "binary/${INITFS}/filesystem.packages"
 	ln "binary/$INITFS/filesystem.packages" "$PREFIX.manifest"
 	chmod 644 "$PREFIX.manifest"
 fi
diff --git a/live-build/auto/config b/live-build/auto/config
index d04c86e3..a9f4ad2c 100755
--- a/live-build/auto/config
+++ b/live-build/auto/config
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ fi
 
 mkdir -p config
 cp -af /usr/share/livecd-rootfs/live-build/functions config/functions
+cp -af /usr/share/livecd-rootfs/live-build/snap-seed-parse.py config/snap-seed-parse
 
 mkdir -p config/package-lists
 
@@ -197,6 +198,14 @@ case $IMAGEFORMAT in
 				*)
 					UBUNTU_IMAGE_ARGS="" ;;
 			esac
+			case $SUITE in
+				xenial)
+					# Ubuntu Core 16
+					;;
+				*)
+					# Ubuntu Core 18
+					MODEL="ubuntu-core-18-${MODEL#pc-}" ;;
+			esac
 
 			echo "IMAGEFORMAT=$IMAGEFORMAT" >> config/common
 			echo "UBUNTU_IMAGE_ARGS=\"$UBUNTU_IMAGE_ARGS\"" >> config/common
diff --git a/live-build/functions b/live-build/functions
index cf68ba16..9f4f02fd 100644
--- a/live-build/functions
+++ b/live-build/functions
@@ -43,6 +43,17 @@ create_empty_disk_image() {
     dd if=/dev/zero of="$1" bs=1 count=0 seek="${imagesize}"
 }
 
+create_manifest() {
+    local chroot_root=${1}
+    local target_file=${2}
+    echo "create_manifest chroot_root: ${chroot_root}"
+    dpkg-query --show --admindir="${chroot_root}/var/lib/dpkg" > ${target_file}
+    echo "create_manifest call to dpkg-query finished."
+    ./config/snap-seed-parse "${chroot_root}" >> ${target_file}
+    echo "create_manifest call to snap_seed_parse finished."
+    echo "create_manifest finished"
+}
+
 make_ext4_partition() {
     device="$1"
     label=${fs_label:+-L "${fs_label}"}
diff --git a/live-build/snap-seed-parse.py b/live-build/snap-seed-parse.py
new file mode 100755
index 00000000..c441dc5a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/live-build/snap-seed-parse.py
@@ -0,0 +1,56 @@
+#!/usr/bin/python3
+
+"""
+Usage: snap-seed-parse ${chroot_dir} > somefile.manifest
+
+This script looks for a seed.yaml path in the given root directory, parsing
+it and printing generated manifest lines to stdout for easy redirection.
+"""
+
+import re
+import sys
+import yaml
+import os.path
+
+
+def log(msg):
+    sys.stderr.write("snap-seed-parse: {}\n".format(msg))
+
+
+log("Parsing seed.yaml")
+
+CHROOT_ROOT = sys.argv[1] if len(sys.argv) > 1 and len(sys.argv[1]) > 0 \
+                          else ''
+
+# Trim any trailing slashes for correct appending
+log("CHROOT_ROOT: {}".format(CHROOT_ROOT))
+if len(CHROOT_ROOT) > 0 and CHROOT_ROOT[-1] == '/':
+    CHROOT_ROOT = CHROOT_ROOT[:-1]
+
+# This is where we expect to find the seed.yaml file
+YAML_PATH = CHROOT_ROOT + '/var/lib/snapd/seed/seed.yaml'
+
+# Snaps are prepended with this string in the manifest
+LINE_PREFIX = 'snap:'
+
+log("yaml path: {}".format(YAML_PATH))
+if not os.path.isfile(YAML_PATH):
+    log("WARNING: yaml path not found; no seeded snaps found.")
+    exit(0)
+else:
+    log("yaml path found.")
+
+with open(YAML_PATH, 'r') as fh:
+    yaml_lines = yaml.safe_load(fh)['snaps']
+
+# Loop over dict items, outputting one manifest line from each triplet
+for item in yaml_lines:
+    filestring = item['file']
+    # Pull the revision number off the file name
+    revision = filestring[filestring.rindex('_')+1:]
+    revision = re.sub(r'[^0-9]', '', revision)
+    print("{}{}\t{}\t{}".format(LINE_PREFIX,
+                                        item['name'],
+                                        item['channel'],
+                                        revision,
+                                        ))
diff --git a/live-build/ubuntu-cpc/hooks/031-0-create-root-dir.binary b/live-build/ubuntu-cpc/hooks/031-0-create-root-dir.binary
index a4d77bd7..6ba4fe9c 100755
--- a/live-build/ubuntu-cpc/hooks/031-0-create-root-dir.binary
+++ b/live-build/ubuntu-cpc/hooks/031-0-create-root-dir.binary
@@ -26,4 +26,4 @@ mkdir -p $rootfs_dir/lib/modules
 
 teardown_mountpoint $rootfs_dir
 
-dpkg-query --admindir=$rootfs_dir/var/lib/dpkg -W > $rootfs_dir.manifest
+create_manifest "${rootfs_dir}" "${rootfs_dir}.manifest"
diff --git a/live-build/ubuntu-cpc/hooks/033-disk-image-uefi.binary b/live-build/ubuntu-cpc/hooks/033-disk-image-uefi.binary
index 56328150..6f6aef30 100755
--- a/live-build/ubuntu-cpc/hooks/033-disk-image-uefi.binary
+++ b/live-build/ubuntu-cpc/hooks/033-disk-image-uefi.binary
@@ -93,6 +93,12 @@ install_grub() {
             ;;
     esac
 
+    # This call to generate the package manifest is added here to capture 
+    # grub-efi packages that otherwise would not make it into the base
+    # manifest. filesystem.packages is moved into place via symlinking to
+    # livecd.ubuntu-cpc.manifest by live-build/auto/build after lb_binary runs
+    create_manifest "mountpoint" "binary/boot/filesystem.packages"
+
     chroot mountpoint grub-install "${loop_device}" \
         --boot-directory=/boot \
         --efi-directory=/boot/efi \
diff --git a/live-build/ubuntu-cpc/hooks/042-vagrant.binary b/live-build/ubuntu-cpc/hooks/042-vagrant.binary
index cb6c593c..26a2c424 100755
--- a/live-build/ubuntu-cpc/hooks/042-vagrant.binary
+++ b/live-build/ubuntu-cpc/hooks/042-vagrant.binary
@@ -163,7 +163,8 @@ Vagrant.configure("2") do |config|
 
   config.vm.provider "virtualbox" do |vb|
      vb.customize [ "modifyvm", :id, "--uart1", "0x3F8", "4" ]
-     vb.customize [ "modifyvm", :id, "--uartmode1", "file", File.join(Dir.pwd, "${prefix}-console.log") ]
+# Creating a console log file is not an expected behavior for vagrant boxes. LP #1777827
+#     vb.customize [ "modifyvm", :id, "--uartmode1", "file", File.join(Dir.pwd, "${prefix}-console.log") ]
   end
 end
 EOF
diff --git a/live-build/ubuntu-server/hooks/030-root-squashfs.binary b/live-build/ubuntu-server/hooks/030-root-squashfs.binary
index ad34e76a..41c15001 100755
--- a/live-build/ubuntu-server/hooks/030-root-squashfs.binary
+++ b/live-build/ubuntu-server/hooks/030-root-squashfs.binary
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ cp -a chroot/* binary/boot/squashfs.dir
 squashfs_f="${PWD}/livecd.${PROJECT}.squashfs"
 squashfs_f_manifest="${squashfs_f}.manifest"
 
-dpkg-query --admindir=binary/boot/squashfs.dir/var/lib/dpkg -W > ${squashfs_f_manifest}
+create_manifest "binary/boot/squashfs.dir" "${squashfs_f_manifest}"
 
 (cd "binary/boot/squashfs.dir/" &&
       mksquashfs . ${squashfs_f} \