New Install, Problem Updating

mpdiemer

First, some housecleaning: I'm a "new-old" user here. I was previously on the forum under "mdiemer," but I couldn't log in, and not knowing how to contact admins, I created a new account. Sorry if that is not cool, and feel free to delete the other account.

Now to my problem: I just acquired an HP Elite 8300, refurbished, and installed Solus last night. I attempted to update, but it seemed to be hung up on extracting. It was on something like 42 out of 400 or so, and just kept spinning. Against my better judgment I shut down, but then Solus would not boot, saying there was a problem and the system could not recover. So I just reinstalled, and that's where I am at now. I don't want to try another update until I get some feedback on this.

Other than that, everything looks great. I've been wanting to run Solus for long time, but the machine I use for Linux has really bad graphics. Now I have a better one, and it runs Solus great. I just need to get this update thing fixed.

Thank, michael

Staudey

mpdiemer It was on something like 42 out of 400 or so, and just kept spinning.

How long did you wait?
Anyway, to rule out an issue with the Software Center I'd try installing the updates by opening a terminal and entering sudo eopkg up. This way you'll have visual output for all the steps and perhaps get a useful error message IF something goes wrong again (hopefully not).

mpdiemer

Re: your question, Staudey, I'm not sure exactly how long it was spinning, I was doing other things so I don't know when it started. But it was at least 30 minutes from that point.

Staudey

mpdiemer But it was at least 30 minutes from that point.

Oh okay, yeah that's definitely too long for any reasonable operation. Probably wouldn't have changed anything to wait any longer.

BuzzPCSOS

I have an old Acer laptop that is too slow and unreliable to do anything serious on that I use for testing. If you let me know what version of Solus failed on updates I will happily install and try to update the same here to see if it can be duplicated.
Note. Previously updates have stalled on me occasionally but I have always run update again either from GUI or CLI before rebooting.
Edit: I installed Solus Plasma on this laptop a few weeks ago and fully updated without issues so it is a good source for comparison with the current state.
Edit 2: This would at least prove if the update fail was due to an issue with the current repository or a failing due to local environment/ISP.
It has already been mentioned elsewhere in this forum that if updates fail you should run sudo eopkg up -y in the terminal until all updates have been delivered and installed.

mpdiemer

Thanks for the replies Staudey and BuzzPCSOS. I am putting this on hold for now while I look at other Linux systems for this computer. No need for further replies at this time.