This has begun happening to me this morning as well. First theme activated fine, but now our second theme is stuck in Pending status. Have attempted the typical troubleshooting steps (i.e. like SuiteAnswer 81255), to no avail. Has anyone else got any pointers?

Normally, perpetual PENDING states are due to competition of resources. You likely have another map/reduce script running at the same time that is winning out on resources. You can try: pausing other M/R scripts when you are doing activations, raising the priority of the activation script so that the other M/R scripts yield to it, buying more SCP licences

Thanks for responding Steve 🙂 We eventually got to raising the priority on the activation script and that got the activation completing as expected.