Just trying to collate all relevant information in one thread, increasing its visibility.
As you have all probably noticed there are significant issues with timeouts when you try and download the Solus ISO or install / update packages on your system. This is due to issues at RIT.
It seems to be an intermittent firewall issue where things get accidentally blocked and then unblocked. Weird bug they are trying to track down.
Source: https://discuss.getsol.us/d/7983-delay-friday-updates/9
This is not a Solus specific issue and there is not a lot we can do but wait for them to fix it.
Due to this and other reasons Solus has decided to defer this weeks updates.
Update 2022-02-12 00:09:21 +01:00
Sync has been completed but RIT issues remain. I advise people to update via the command line using this command:
until sh -c 'sudo eopkg up -y';do echo 'Trying again ...';done
It can still timeout but if it fails, it will keep trying until it is completed successfully so you need not baby sit it.
Update 2022-02-17 09:13:56 +11:00
RIT server issues appear to be resolved. But we are still looking for feedback / testing from users.
Final update.
Thank you all for your patience with this incredibly frustraiting issue and helping confirm it is resolved. 🎉
Additionally @joebonrichie 's great work on eopkg was part of this weeks sync. Which means eopkg now handles timeouts properly making it much, much more resilent to connection issues. So you will not need until sh -c 'sudo eopkg up -y';do echo 'Trying again ...';done anymore.
Most users should be good with the default number of retries as in testing while the server was 💩 I managed to download 1156 packages without it failing, but if you have a particularly bad connection to the server you can increase the number of retries as explained here.
