This appears to be fixed with the latest version of the plymouth
package. It turns out my system was not entirely up-to-date when I tried
to install network-manager-openvpn-gnome.
For those who make it here from a search engine, you can make the post-install
script complete by finding the pid of
I am also experiencing this bug on a system installed last night. I got
a hang while running 'apt install network-manager-openvpn-gnome', gave
up and killed the process, and I am now getting a hang again while
running 'dpkg --configure -a'.
'ps fauxw' seems to indicate that the post-install script