Comment 3 for bug 1725525

I am also having this issue on a fresh 17.10 install.

These processes seem to be stalled

$ ps aux | grep openvpn
root 23463 0.0 0.0 71444 18748 pts/1 S+ 08:18 0:00 /usr/bin/perl -w /usr/share/debconf/frontend /var/lib/dpkg/info/openvpn.postinst configure
root 23470 0.0 0.0 4608 948 pts/1 S+ 08:18 0:00 /bin/sh /var/lib/dpkg/info/openvpn.postinst configure
root 23476 0.0 0.0 4608 1744 pts/1 S+ 08:18 0:00 /bin/sh /usr/sbin/invoke-rc.d openvpn cond-restart
root 23498 0.0 0.0 4608 1840 pts/1 S+ 08:18 0:00 /bin/sh -e /etc/init.d/openvpn cond-restart