Brad, your pstree output shows an orphaned dpkg process:
├─dpkg───frontend─┬─preinst │ └─whiptail
Do you know how this process was launched? Did you run apt-get or dpkg from a terminal and then close the terminal?
Brad, your pstree output shows an orphaned dpkg process:
├─ dpkg─── frontend─ ┬─preinst
│ └─whiptail
Do you know how this process was launched? Did you run apt-get or dpkg from a terminal and then close the terminal?