hmmm, I think I might have found the root cause. Internet connection outbound appears to be somehow dead on the server. Websites are still being served (although a big slow) and I can still remotely log in via SSH, but it seems it can’t connect to external servers. I guess that’s why the phpmyadmin file is not getting downloaded.
I was just curious and attempted to run update and upgrade and noticed the issue.
I posted a new question here as it appears to be related to after I upgraded to 1.4.2.
Any idea what’s going on? Seems to be related to the 1.4.2 update. Server was working just fine before I ran the update.