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.

                rothom Last update was on Jan 28th. On Feb 04th there was no update. It means that the last update took place 14 days ago . A new update is supposed to take place today or tomorrow, unless it is said otherwise. Let's be patient, and we'll see.

                Are we to understand that the problems at RIT from a week ago is still happening?

                  eye4bear That is exactly correct. (there even appeared an additional problem in the meantime, which [I think] has been solved, but the original issue still stands)