[solved] Broken Updates! (Edited - was: Updates for Deepin 15.1 are very slow...
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jotapesse
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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:
  1. $ sudo apt-get update
  2. $ 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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jotapesse
deepin
2016-03-01 15:18
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https://bbs.deepin.org/post/30765
On my workstation I used Synaptic Package Manger to select the updates I wanted.

I didn't do a selective/partial upgrade, don't think that's the best option unless you're aware of a particular package that will break your system. I did a full upgrade with "apt-get dist-upgrade" on terminal. There was around 600MB of packages upgraded.

Remember that Deepin is based of Debian Sid/Unstable so it upgrades frequently and largely, it's possible that there's an issue with a particular package and my system. If I knew which one then I would selectively keep it back until a newer/fixed version is released.
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dance707
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2016-03-01 15:26
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https://bbs.deepin.org/post/30765
I didn't do a selective/partial upgrade, don't think that's the best option unless you're aware of ...

Sorry I don't have other suggestions for you. And I know its not the best option. But it is what I had to do. And it will allow you to at least install the important security update..
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jotapesse
deepin
2016-03-01 15:44
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https://bbs.deepin.org/post/30765
Sorry I don't have other suggestions for you. And I know its not the best option. But it is what I ...

Nothing to be sorry about. :-) Thank you, anyway. Your (and others) help is extremely appreciated.
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twoguntom
deepin
2016-03-02 08:40
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https://bbs.deepin.org/post/30765
This cured mine so far on 2 computers; I'm working on the others now.

sudo apt-get clean

Glad to hear that. I hate when things are broken; drives me bonkers. I'm thankful for the sharing nature of the Deepin community
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jotapesse
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2016-03-02 15:23
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The latest issue I reported on the updated first post 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.
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jotapesse
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2016-03-06 09:52
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Just to close down this thread, following the https://bbs.deepin.org/post/30796 I have upgraded my system and the login freeze issue is resolved. Good! Thanks.
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