Ubuntu LTS updating failing all over the world

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/appstream/+bug/1579712

by anderstrier • 10 years ago

30 25 10 years ago

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anderstrier• 10 years ago

Symptoms: apt-get update hangs, and the appstreamcli process is using 100% CPU.

Fix described here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/appstream/+bug/157...

feylikurds• 10 years ago

It is appstream, fix is:

  cd /tmp && mkdir asfix
  cd asfix
  wget https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+archive/primary/+files/appstream_0.9.4-1ubuntu1_amd64.deb
  wget https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+archive/primary/+files/libappstream3_0.9.4-1ubuntu1_amd64.deb
  sudo dpkg -i libappstream3*.deb
  sudo dpkg -i appstream*.deb

fit2rule• 10 years ago

Can confirm, this fixed it. However, now gotta do the same thing on all the grandma's and neighbors' laptops .. fml ..

noobermin2• 10 years ago

Here comes the expected complaint: Ubuntu is supposed to be the user friendly distro, right?

It seems an unfair thing to say until you experience it, or your loved one does. My SO uses gnome-ubuntu, and I am at a loss to explain why firefox crashes multiple times a week on her PC. On my gentoo box? I think the browser hasn't crashed randomly in...months? And I am on ~arch at least for firefox so they are the same version afaik.

Gentoo doesn't have as many devoted, paid testers from what I understand as Canonical does, so how is their stability relatively worse?

cyphar4• 10 years ago

I actually put Arch on my SOs laptop, because I knew that Ubuntu would probably break in some way in a couple of months. But I'd probably go with openSUSE if I needed to reinstall GNU/Linux (the community has put a lot of work into stability as well as having up to date software).

noobermin2• 10 years ago

Does arch have something like Software in their gnome 3? My SO isn't as into tech stuff and I wanted it to be easier for them to install stuff without having to google or know apt/emerge/pacman

dingaling• 10 years ago

The main problem that I have with unattended Ubuntu for family is that eventually /boot fills-up with old kernels and updates start to fail.

I don't believe they have resolved this despite having been a problem for years.

carlesfe2• 10 years ago

Editorialized title?

AgentME• 10 years ago

Is it not accurate? Turns out updates had been broken for me too for a while because of this problem.

carlesfe2• 10 years ago

Given that the original title "Refresh hangs indefinitely, appstreamcli using 100% CPU" wouldn't probably have made the front page, yes, I'd say it has been editorialised for added sensationalism, like "failing all over the world"

For me, that is not accurate. If OP wanted to give a bit more context other than the original title, they could have changed it without adding the sensationalist part, for example, "Ubuntu bug breaks apt-get update" or similar.

zaggynl• 10 years ago

This is why you wait for a service pack or point release before using a new version of an OS.

sliken• 10 years ago

Doesn't help much. Ubuntu-14.04 LTS had a similar problem last week where network manager crashes and you can't get to the network to fix it.

digi_owl2• 10 years ago

FFS, we are not going to beat Windows by recreating it!

orblivion• 10 years ago

This afternoon, without applying any of the workaround fixes, I somehow was able to apt update and upgrade appstream. Did they somehow make a server-side fix?

Ubuntu LTS updating failing all over the world

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