Previous timeout issues and this issue are unrelated. Many / most times users have reported timeouts in recent memory the issue has been with the users connection (wifi vs ethernet) / the route the traffic takes from their computer to the server being congested / having faults.

With prior issues while they are getting timeouts or unable to reach the server at all at the exact same time I have been able to download at 13MB/s sustained from Australia without issue. This clearly has absolutely nothing to do with RIT. Regional mirrors may sometimes help this sort of scenario but a CDN is very expensive due to how much traffic we will need.

This is made worse by eopkg not handling timeouts gracefully and software centre not providing enough information about issues or freezing when they occur. It is not an easy issue to fix because a library eopkg uses (not made by us) returns a timeout as success.

When it has been RIT before with congestion the issue has resolved itself in about an hour, I personally can not remember the last time there was an actual issue.

But I understand people being frustrated with how long RIT are taking to fix this specific issue, its driving me nuts.

    Harvey thanks for differentiating between the common timeout problem and what's going on with RIT on the server end. Informative.
    I wonder if all the hosted distros sit on a big RAID somewhere, segregated completely from the huge personnel/academic side, and what we are seeing is the result of then updating their own intranet system/policies
    with the distro hosting raid a temporary casualty of the law of unintended consequences that happens with every policy change. This theory has a nice Occams feel to it; i will keep it🙂

      Harvey Howdy! I encountered this issue with my sister many miles away from me as I’m helping her get Solus Budgie onto her Thinkpad. The timeouts were still an issue, obviously, but we circumvented it via bit torrent which got me thinking:

      Is there any sort of organized torrent/seeding we (meaning me and others interested) might be able to do to help solve this issue for others by hosting the ISO’s via torrent? Or do we already do this and there’s a way I can participate in seeding the ISO?

          CorvusRuber still a WIP. They are trying to track down the bug, while also ordering new hardware to build an upgraded system.

              DataDrake
              I do not miss the times when I had to handle similar issues. My condolences to the team.

                Harvey Gotcha, no, I created my own and seeded it to her privately! I'll seed that one now. Thanks for the reminder!

                  Hi!
                  is that safe to use solus gnome without installing any updates? I reinstalled gnome 4.3...

                  thanks for the support
                  Fanmion

                    Fanmion is that safe to use solus gnome without installing any updates? I reinstalled gnome 4.3...

                    It is always a risk to run an operating system without current updates. However, in this case, Solus 4.3 was released in August 2021, and the risk is probably not high. It would be a good idea to update if you are willing to put up with a lengthy process.

                    If you want to install updates, this is a method that should work:

                    (1) Open the terminal.
                    (2) Run command sudo eopkg up. This will start the update process.
                    (3) The process will start to download updates.
                    (4) At some point, the download process will fail. You will probably get a message something like: "Operation too slow. Less than 1000 bytes/sec transferred the last 120 seconds."
                    (5) When the process fails, run sudo eopkg up again. The download process will pick up where it left off and download more files before it fails again.
                    (6) Keep repeating Step (5) as many times as you need to in order to download all the files. Be patient. You might have to repeat Step (5) over and over again, but it will eventually download all the files.
                    (7) After all the files have downloaded, the update process will continue to completion without further action on your part, verifying, extracting and installing files, until you are fully updated.

                    If you don't want to update at this time, keep checking back to this thread. RIT will eventually get the problem solved and we can count on the Solus team to let us know in this thread.

                        Good thing that tomscharbach method works. Chapeau!

                        Right now I am enjoying: "L'Impératrice en el Grand Palais de París - Passengers 2021" with some Cabernet Sauvignon while updating both PCs. Today is going to be a good day. 😄

                          Tom's method does not work for me, unfortunately.

                          I get directly the message:
                          Depot information from Solus is up to date.
                          There are no packages to install.
                          Tried on two Solus machines.

                            rothom
                            Did you just install Solus?

                            If you are talking about "todays update", its not synced yet (if there is any).

                                tomscharbach By the way, for other people trying to download the ISOs, you can use wget -c (--continue) to resume a partially-completed download. Very handy for situations like this.

                                  henkesteen

                                  My last update was two weeks ago. You mean no new updates have been released in the meantime? Hard to believe, especially since we are talking about multiple computers.