[solved] Broken Updates! (Edited - was: Updates for Deepin 15.1 are very slow...- Community

[solved] Broken Updates! (Edited - was: Updates for Deepin 15.1 are very slow...

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jotapesse

deepin

2016-02-26 13:32

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Edited by jotapesse at 2016-3-5 17:50

Edit (2016-03-05) Solved:
Folowing the https://bbs.deepin.org/post/30796 I have upgraded my system and the issue is resolved. Good! Thanks.

Edit (2016-03-01) Confirmed issue, upgrading not recommended:
The issue below is confirmed by today's https://bbs.deepin.org/post/30785 from Deepin team. Several users had the same issue, it may happen to you. Please take notice that you should refrain from doing any upgrade to the system (control center or from terminal) until newer upgrades that fix it are released - they should be announcing it when it's ready.

Edit (2016-02-29) Unresponsive system:
Ok, on a third system, the system crashed after some upgrades in the command line. Tried to recover with grub's deepin recover option and repair broken updates. It always booted to login but crashed, with a freezed login screen, no mouse, no keyboard. Had to fully reinstall Deepin. And now the connection with the repositories is DEAD SLOW (since this morning in Europe)! Any repository server, official or server! This is taking too long to resolve, Deepin team!

Edit (2016-02-27) New findings:
Ok, after 2 days of unsuccessfully trying to update Deepin 15.1 from control-center very slowly up to ~40% downloads, today it simply notified that it failed and offered to try again, always unsuccessfully. I tried changing mirror servers several times but no change. I decided to try to update it 'manually' in terminal:

$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

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The official repository server (and CDN) simply did not connect anymore so I changed again the mirror in control-center for a 'Fast' one and tried again in terminal. This time it connected without any issue and started to upgrade. Well, it seems that the ~600MB of upgrade packages were already previously downloaded in total (not ~40%), no extra downloads were required. The Deepin Control Center System Updates just didn't worked properly! Broken updates in control-center!

Following the successful upgrade in terminal I rebooted and at first login I lost all my custom keyboard shortcuts (didn't work and didn't existed in control-center). Also the desktop 'Computer' icon was reverted to the default deepin (blue) logo icon. Control-center notified that 'deepin patches' updates were available but none were available in terminal, also a 'new driver' was detected. I tried 'updating' in control-center and it asked to reboot again. I rebooted one more time. On next login it recovered all my keyboard shortcuts but the desktop 'computer' icon was still missing. The 'new driver' was just the 'intel cpu firmware' that I previously had used but now was disabled. I select it for use. I selected the default icon theme again in control-center and it solved the icon issue. All seems working fine now.

Conclusion: Something is wrong with Deepin Updates/Control Center. It stopped working. CDN 'acceleration' stopped working. Manually selecting a mirror server and upgrading in terminal resolved the upgrading issue. This happened on both my pc's i386 and amd64, so nothing related to a particular machine/system install. If you are having the same issue you may try the same procedure and see if it upgrades.

Original post (2016-02-25):
Today the Deepin 15.1 system notified that patches and updates were available to install, so I proceed to install them on my several PCs. It's painfully slow! The Deepin repositories servers must be overwelmed. I guess that everybody is having the same trouble. So it seems that it's time for Deepin team to upgrade the repositories server infrastructure to deal with the increasing user demand. You guys just have much more users now than before, I guess. Waiting...

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dance707

deepin

2016-02-29 12:40

#21

https://bbs.deepin.org/post/30765
I appreciate what you do; I'd have left a while ago if you hadn't helped.

Now, I'm installing Dee ...

Same here I have Deepin installed on all my computer and my relatives as well

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twoguntom

deepin

2016-02-29 12:45

#22

I don't want to hijack the thread, but Deepin has the approval of young and old here... I was on "pause" on several installs because of the interupted patch download/install, but with the command lines to remedy that, we're back up and humming right along now

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dance707

deepin

2016-02-29 13:02

#23

Interesting observation. I have also found it interesting this forum has quite a mixture of newbies and Debian experts and those like me which are neither..

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jotapesse

deepin

2016-02-29 15:14

#24

https://bbs.deepin.org/post/30765
Interesting observation. I have also found it interesting this forum has quite a mixture of newbies ...

Overall, I have never been as excited with a Linux distribution as I am now with Deepin. That's saying a lot, if you have experienced the most popular Linux distributions out there. Deepin seems to be the answer to my prayers.

Yes, it's not perfect, it's relatively young, has a lot to improve, but it's based of Debian and the overall concept, approach and evolution are the best I've found until now. The Deepin team also seems to be well backed up to grow if required. And imagine... You're getting all this for free. Thank you!

The community around Deepin is still young and with a lot of recent newcomers (myself included). We may help turn it on one of the best there is. Give it some time and give a little help, we all will benefit from it.

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jotapesse

deepin

2016-03-01 02:57

#25

Original post updated!

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tristar

deepin

2016-03-01 03:26

#26

Edited by tristar at 2016-2-29 12:30

https://bbs.deepin.org/post/30765
Original post updated!

Well, we should not forget, as no one says out loud, but, we all know where are server located and it's common knowledge, that China has not only great China wall but has great Firewall too. Because that we "aliens" have big problems connecting to their servers. {:4_136:}

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tristar

deepin

2016-03-01 03:39

#27

Edited by tristar at 2016-2-29 12:45

Maybe you miss this one: https://bbs.deepin.org/post/30708 If still works, ofc.

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veganosorus

deepin

2016-03-01 06:28

#28

https://bbs.deepin.org/post/30765
In your applications there is a Deepin User Feedback tool . They will reply if you provide email

They know about this problem, they told me on Twitter. But they didn't tell when it will be fixed or even if it will be fixed. Support is quite lame actually.

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m***o@gmail.com

deepin

2016-03-01 12:26

#29

New ISO of Deepin 15.1 updated at 29/02 available on Mega!

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tristar

deepin

2016-03-01 12:32

#30

https://bbs.deepin.org/post/30765
New ISO of Deepin 15.1 updated at 29/02 available on Mega!

Thank you!

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nills

deepin

2016-03-01 12:34

#31

Edited by nills at 2016-3-1 05:44

https://bbs.deepin.org/post/30765
New ISO of Deepin 15.1 updated at 29/02 available on Mega!

It's 29/01...it's the same old ISO.

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dance707

deepin

2016-03-01 13:55

#32

https://bbs.deepin.org/post/30765
Thank you!

The mega link says the file was created 1/29 ? how can this be new ?

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jotapesse

deepin

2016-03-01 14:19

#33

https://bbs.deepin.org/post/30765
Maybe you miss this one: Link! If still works, ofc.

My trouble is: On this particular machine, even after fresh reinstall of Deepin, upgrading it with latest updates always results in a freezed login screen, no keyboard, no mouse. I reinstalled again but I'm now afraid to upgrade it.

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tristar

deepin

2016-03-01 14:42

#34