We deployed the following workaround for this, will report on whether or not it fixes the issue:
# cat /etc/systemd/system/prometheus-node-exporter-apt.service.d/override.conf [Service] # bug https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1028212 # https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/tpa/team/-/issues/41355 TimeoutStartSec=30s