Discover Automatic Updates not installing (Solus SC removed)

BuzzPCSOS

Not been having much luck with Discover recently after a relatively smooth ride with it before.
The good news is that for those who want to set up a Solus system for a non-tech user, Automatic updates can be selected from the Plasma Settings panel and are working.
The bad news is that it seems like setting the update method to After rebooting breaks the auto update feature.
The updates seem to stick at about 50% and my CPU usage went above 60%. The PC would not shut down and had to be forced off at the power button (sorry I did not try 'raising elephants is so utterly boring' just the regular shutdown methods). Previously Auto Update seemed to work fine when system updates were applied immediately so I have reverted to that format.
Thinking about it there is a sense to not just rebooting after automatically updating so perhaps this by design instead of a fault.
Anyhow at least anyone else wanting automatic updates will know the best way to set them up now.

TraceyC

BuzzPCSOS

Have a look at the FAQ about using Discover. Solus SC conflicts with it and causes issues like this.

banger

I like to see what is being installed so I use the CLI.

BuzzPCSOS

banger I tend to agree with that.
I often recommend Solus to ex Windows users who are running out of time on Win10.
Trying to convince non-geeks to update when prompted is an uphill struggle. Making it all automatic makes for just one more thing that they don't need to do and still maintain a relatively tight ship.

palto42

This topic has been discussed a lot and I also would like to have such feature, but the main issue is the risk of partial updated due to user shutting down (or sleep) the pc in the middle of an update.
Long back I tried to implement a solution using "systemd-inhibit", but it didn't work since at that time the inhibitor could not stop the user will. Then I tried for some time reboot guard which worked in principle, but not perfect and is not maintained anymore.

So as of today, I follow the recommended manual update way, since the effort to get a reliable low risk automatic update was too big.

Axios

palto42 Some things are meant to be auto update some are not like the main OS.
In my opinion.

BuzzPCSOS

TraceyC I removed Solus SC from my system some time ago with sudo eopkg rm solus-sc solus-sc-icons as it was thought to be conflicting with Discover.
Issues with Discover's auto update feature happened well after Solus SC was long gone.
Tonight's updates should have happened automatically but the operation was still a little strange. I could see an icon telling me something like "Cloud updates installing" but there was no CPU or hard drive activity to indicate anything was happening. This went on for over 30mins. The auto update process also prevented me from running Discover and manually updating. I ended up rebooting, setting updates to manual and running a manual update which went fine.
I know auto update did play nicely because I have seen it do just that on two separate machines.
If there are details that would help then I still have a PC that has not been updated that I can record before and after logs on. Just let me know what you need.

TraceyC

BuzzPCSOS I removed Solus SC from my system some time ago

Ah, thanks for clarifying. There's an open issue for this, if you want to add your system details and other details to it.