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eopkg freezes during package installation when I "sudo eopkg up", but now when I install a new package without updating
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Hello.

I already tried what is listed in https://getsol.us/articles/troubleshooting/general-troubleshooting/en/

When I try to install a package, eopkg works just fine.

But when I try to update my system (it's been almost a month, I don't know exactly, it may have a relation with solus 4.3 's release) with "sudo epokg up" , eopkg freezes. I joined a screenshot (in French), to illustrate

Screenshot_20210807_165242.png (722×1 px, 114 KB)

even if given an hour, two hours, the update does not finish. I always need to kill the process in order to get control the terminal (Konsole still responds, I can create other tabs etc... I just can't control the one with eopkg freezing), ctr + C only adds "^C" on the last line.

I notices that killing the process sometimes reduces the amount of packages you need to update when you retry "sudo eopkg up"

Reproduction step (100% reproduction rate on my machine) :

  1. Boot to Solus
  2. Open a tty or terminal emulator
  3. Write "sudo eopkg up" in said tty or terminal emulator
  4. enter root password when asked
  5. let eopkg go through the updating process untill it freezes like in the screenshot

Have a good day

Edit : after a test today, it froze when I tried to install retroarch

Edit 2 : I had to do a udo eopkg rdb and it fixed it up. Ticket can be closed.