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CONFIRMED. Looks like an admin created an init script in /etc/init.d that was broken and causing the service command to hang.

This had nothing to do with ncpa all along!

service --status-all
So, this command on its own hangs indefinitely. I'm now working on that, which will very likely resolve the issue (which is probably not related to ncpa at all with the exception of this command being run as part of the installation process).

Maybe kill the ncpa service processes and rerun the upgrade. Unfortunately it just puts me back in the same loop: # kill 3797 3839 # apt reinstall ncpa E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'sudo dpkg --configure -a' to correct the problem. # dpkg --configure -a Processing triggers for lib...

Have you tried this yet? I did, thought I included the output: ps aux | grep -E 'apt|dpkg' root 10932 0.0 0.0 68748 7376 ? S Apr01 4:07 apt install --reinstall ncpa root 11160 0.0 0.0 45624 20552 pts/11 Ss+ Apr01 0:00 /usr/bin/dpkg --status-fd 39 --no-triggers --unpack --auto-deconfigure /var/cache...

kg2857 wrote: ↑Sun Mar 31, 2024 9:28 pm Maybe kill the ncpa service processes and rerun the upgrade.

Unfortunately that is part of the 'infinite loop' I'm currently in. I kill all the related processes, but then uninstall/reinstall spins them back up and they never complete.

Try running apt with verbose output, so we can get some more information on where things are failing instead of just a vague idea of where things are getting stuck. apt-get -o Debug::pkgProblemResolver=yes -o Debug::Acquire::http=yes install ncpa Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tr...

Could you try running service --status-all 2>&1 | grep -Fq 'ncpa_listener' to see what it returns? Unfortunately, this command also seems to 'hang' indefinitely. I thought I finally had some success here with the following: apt remove --purge ncpa Reading package lists... Done Building dependen...

Hello @bbahn, I tried your suggestions but unfortunately I'm still stuck. % sudo dpkg --audit This seemed to have the same results as when I previously ran ' dpkg -C ncpa '. The following packages are in a mess due to serious problems during installation. They must be reinstalled for them (and any p...

Thank you!

I'm running this build of Debian 10: 4.19.0-24-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.19.282-1 (2023-04-29) x86_64 GNU/Linux We were running ' apt upgrade ' and NCPA got stuck indefinitely: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages will be upgrade...