Comment 2 for bug 1725525

I am also encountering a stuck openvpn install on a fairly fresh Ubuntu 17.10 install. I have not been able to install.

Installation shows:

$ sudo apt install openvpn
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Suggested packages:
  resolvconf easy-rsa
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  openvpn
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 6 not upgraded.
Need to get 469 kB of archives.
After this operation, 1,126 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://nz.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu artful/main amd64 openvpn amd64 2.4.3-4ubuntu1 [469 kB]
Fetched 469 kB in 1s (421 kB/s)
Preconfiguring packages ...
Selecting previously unselected package openvpn.
(Reading database ... 127063 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../openvpn_2.4.3-4ubuntu1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking openvpn (2.4.3-4ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for ureadahead (0.100.0-20) ...
Setting up openvpn (2.4.3-4ubuntu1) ...

Progress: [ 66%]

The following openvpn related processes are present:

$ ps aux | grep openvpn
root 6183 0.0 0.0 68244 1520 pts/1 S+ 16:25 0:00 sudo apt install openvpn
root 6184 0.4 0.2 126168 23956 pts/1 S+ 16:25 0:01 apt install openvpn
root 6229 0.0 0.1 71204 14412 pts/2 S+ 16:25 0:00 /usr/bin/perl -w /usr/share/debconf/frontend /var/lib/dpkg/info/openvpn.postinst configure
root 6236 0.0 0.0 4608 128 pts/2 S+ 16:25 0:00 /bin/sh /var/lib/dpkg/info/openvpn.postinst configure
root 6242 0.0 0.0 4608 936 pts/2 S+ 16:25 0:00 /bin/sh /usr/sbin/invoke-rc.d openvpn cond-restart
root 6264 0.0 0.0 4608 980 pts/2 S+ 16:25 0:00 /bin/sh -e /etc/init.d/openvpn cond-restart
xxxx 6368 0.0 0.0 21452 892 pts/4 S+ 16:29 0:00 grep --color=auto openvpn