I seem to have a recurring issue with Software Center dropping network connections. I don't log on to Solus frequently so may have upwards of 100 updates waiting. Some will download then the connection drops and does not recover. This requires restarting the Software Center. I notice the eopkg upgrade command run as root does not seem to suffer this problem. Is anyone else having this issue?
Well surprise... I got this error from eopkg. It seems the program can't recover from a bad connection or slow mirror.
Program terminated.
Could not fetch destination file "https://mirrors.rit.edu/solus/packages/shannon/e/etcher/etcher-1.5.50-12-1-x86_64.eopkg": [Errno 12] Timeout on https://mirrors.rit.edu/solus/packages/shannon/e/etcher/etcher-1.5.50-12-1-x86_64.eopkg: (28, 'Operation too slow. Less than 1000 bytes/sec transferred the last 300 seconds')

    Don't mess with the software center.
    What has worked for me 100 times out of 100, after a dropped connection during an update: do it again--sudo eopkg up. I've never had the same thing happen twice (knock on wood).

      mcouteau Next time if you could wait for a response from us rather than emailing the mirror admin directly, I'd appreciate it. eopkg does a poor job of handling network interruptions. In this case you happened to catch the mirror at the exact time the admin was performing physical network changes.

        Ok DataDrake. My first time here. I seem to catch this problem a lot. Maybe my hours running until 2:00AM CST.
        If there is a "no updates please" schedule, maybe someone knows where to find it. I did email the mirror admin since I thought it was probably the mirror due to the connection drops. Live and learn. Thanks for the reply.

          mcouteau I am in direct communication with the mirror admin, so often I can get an answer much quicker than doing through normal channels. As for the intermittent connectivity, part of that is the internet being fickle, but most of that is eopkg just not trying harder when things get stuck. When I get around to replacing eopkg, it will be far more robust.

              DataDrake Thanks for the quick response. I didn't know if eopkg or some underlying transport software was to blame. I did notice some other distros will switch mirrors on a failure. Hopefully priorities align to get a better delivery agent in place. Upgrades need to be effortless, if possible. Thanks again.

                a month later

                Ok so lets try this again. Brent, I assume your sudo command example was for updating the software center? Have had dropped conections too with solus budgie, but most of it is my hp15 laptop which acted a fool with windows 8 and 10 also before I ditched them in favor of Solus.

                  Larryrl sudo eopkg up updates all your software; not just the Software Center (which rarely sees updates).

                      Staudey Good distinction re: updates in SC vs. updates TO SC.
                      Larryrl Yes, it's a terminal command. I think it's more efficient and effective than using the UI. Congrats on your migration from the dark side🙂