Maasi the gist of my post was manually uninstalling/installing half the broken packages in tty, led me to finally being able to use the grep broken command. The packages, need to run the danged command I had somehow ripped out. Somehow that diligence got me to the operating system...

....as to your question, stalling out at RIT is not uncommon during update. It is 100% cured by trying it again until it sticks. Keep trying it will update.

      brent

      I did systemd-analyze critical-chain and it show systemd-fsck-root @584542y 2w 2d 20h 1min 49.328s +16ms in red

      is that the problem?

          Maasi Over my head. I defer to Justin --edit or the majority of people above my brain level who can interpret that. Red is always pay attention, I agree.

                Maasi I mentioned what the problem was in my last comment, it couldn't lookup DNS. Is the error the same if you update now?

                    Justin

                    no the DNS thing is fixed now, thank you about that.

                    Now a new problem appeared. when I do systemd-analyze critical-chain, systemd-fsck-root.service @584542y 2w 2d 20h 1min 49.337s +17ms appears in red. could it be the problem?

                        Maasi Unlikely. That's just a filesystem check.

                          brent

                          I give up. Im trying to install solus but it writes:

                          Failed to apply format: / dev nvme0n1p2: Command '/sbin/pvcreate -ff -y /dev/nvme0n1p2' returned non-zero exit status 5
                          Failed to apply disk strategy

                          how do i fix it?

                              thank you everyone, you guys are did great. Thanks for the all replies.