This is not a bug. There should be no conf/snippets directory. That is no longer used by webwork2. Check your localOverrides.conf and site.conf files carefully. You must still have a reference to that directory somewhere, and that is why you are getting that error.
Installation
Upgrade to 2.19 and conf/snippets directory
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