Tobias Nissen wrote: > Does `aptitude -v` give relevant additional output?
Nope.
> When in the "Preconfiguring"-stage, does `ps aux` show something unusual?
Looks like it is hanging on exim's preconfig?
root 19494 7.3 14.7 52668 38816 pts/1 Sl+ 10:59 0:17 aptitude -v
safe-upgrade
root 19625 0.0 0.4 2940 1160 pts/1 S+ 11:00 0:00 /bin/sh -c
/usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt || true
root 19626 62.0 4.5 13972 11896 pts/1 S+ 11:00 1:47 /usr/bin/perl
-w /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt
root 19632 0.0 0.0 0 0 pts/1 Z+ 11:00 0:00
[dpkg-preconfigu] <defunct>
root 19935 21.0 1.4 5444 3784 pts/1 R+ 11:00 0:34 /bin/sh
/tmp/exim4-config.config.196645 configure 4.63-3
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