Porteus - USM error

[alwaysfunk]

Try changing the mirror salix is using. Running sesm is a good way to find the fastest.

Every repo gives me the same output, I thought it was a single mirror but unless the entire infrastructure went down then it must be an internal problem to my installation. I thought it could have been the firewall but disabling the firewall doesn't change that. I get this fatal error when I close USM that says

A fatal error broke the application:
FATAL ERROR! update_usm 351 Could not download file: vercheck.txt

As of now I can't install any software or update anything... Except the browser updater, that works correctly.

[Ed_P]

I updated my USM system earlier today with no problems from any distro.

[alwaysfunk]

I updated my USM system earlier today with no problems from any distro.

I guess it's just my problem, but I would like to understand what is it that randomly breaks my installation. Can I somehow replace this vercheck file?
Is there a way to reset USM to its defaults without reinstalling the whole OS? Starting with "Always Fresh" and trying to restore the USM settings didn't yield any changes. I have no idea how this OS behaves with saving configuration files beyond its basic Linux workings.
I get this every time I close USM after (unsuccessfully) trying to update.

[Ed_P]

What mirror did you use for salix? Mine is set to http://mirror.its.dal.ca/salix. With the pandemic some mirrors that have problems are not getting fixed quickly. Have you run the sesm script? [INFO & SCRIPT] Slackware Mirror Settings for USM

The USM files are stored in /var/usm so if you'd like to try again you could rename then and create new ones but I would recommend the sesm approach 1st. Make sure you make the script to be executable with chmod +x sesm.sh

[alwaysfunk]

What mirror did you use for salix? Mine is set to http://mirror.its.dal.ca/salix. With the pandemic some mirrors that have problems are not getting fixed quickly. Have you run the sesm script? [INFO & SCRIPT] Slackware Mirror Settings for USM

The USM files are stored in /var/usm so if you'd like to try again you could rename then and create new ones but I would recommend the sesm approach 1st. Make sure you make the script to be executable with chmod +x sesm.sh

I haven't run sesm, but is it the same as running fastest-mirror? 'Cause I've done that... I'm going to try this via script, but the issue I am having is not just with a mirror like salix, I think this is a general USM issue since it gives me that vercheck error even if I just update USM or run updates for any other mirror. It says in that post that the updates for other mirrors were "done" but they just ran through that file not found error like salix. I was convinced it was the firewall but I disabled it and it gives the same issue. If I start fresh it's fixed, (apart from having to change the slacky mirror because the European one is broken) so I would just like to restore the whole USM configuration back to default.
Will update this in a bit.

[Ed_P]

Haven't heard of fastest-mirror but sesm does try to do that.

What version of Porteus are you running?

[alwaysfunk]

What version of Porteus are you running?

v4.0, kernel 4.16.3-porteus

If I clear the files in /var/usm and try to update again I get the same story as before. The issue is not the databases I think, it's all this vercheck file.
Trying slackwarepatches

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root@porteus:/home/guest# usm -u slackwarepatches
find: `/tmp/xdg-runtime-guest/gvfs': Permission denied
find: `/tmp/.mount_KeePasxgDWDc': Permission denied
 Starting slackwarepatches database update 
awk: fatal: cannot open file `/vercheck.txt' for reading (No such file or directory)
Downloading: CHECKSUMS.md5  DONE
Downloading: MANIFEST.bz2  DONE
Downloading: PACKAGES.TXT  DONE
Downloading: LIBS.TXT.gz  DONE
awk: fatal: cannot open file `/var/usm/slackwarepatches/CHECKSUMS.md5' for reading (No such file or directory)
md5sum: /var/usm/slackwarepatches/MANIFEST.bz2: No such file or directory
File verification was good.
Optimizing manifestcode
grep: /var/usm/slackwarepatches/MANIFEST: No such file or directory
rm: cannot remove '/var/usm/slackwarepatches/MANIFEST': No such file or directory
grep: /var/usm/slackwarepatches/LIBS.TXT: No such file or directory
sed: can't read /var/usm/slackwarepatches/LIBS.TXT: No such file or directory
grep: /var/usm/slackwarepatches/LIBS.TXT: No such file or directory
sed: can't read /var/usm/slackwarepatches/LIBS.TXT: No such file or directory
 slackwarepatches  database updated. 

          

==============================================================================
WARNING!        WARNING!        WARNING!        WARNING!        WARNING!code
==============================================================================
One or more errors occurred while usm was running:                       
 
FATAL ERROR!
 update_usm 351
Could not download file: vercheck.txt
 
============================================================================== 

[Ed_P]

After deleting the usm files did you reboot? And after doing that try updating USM itself then try updating the databases.

[alwaysfunk]

After deleting the usm files did you reboot? And after doing that try updating USM itself then try updating the databases.

I deleted the files in /var/usm, rebooted, opened a terminal, logged in as root and tried

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root@porteus:/home/guest# usm -u usm
find: `/tmp/.mount_KeePasSIW1jN': Permission denied
find: `/tmp/xdg-runtime-guest/gvfs': Permission denied
Downloading: vercheck.txt  DONE

          

==============================================================================
WARNING!        WARNING!        WARNING!        WARNING!        WARNING!
==============================================================================
One or more errors occurred while usm was running:                       
 
FATAL ERROR!
 update_usm 351
Could not download file: vercheck.txt
 
============================================================================== 

No idea how to proceed. I am saving sessions but of course unchecking that and starting normally doesn't affect USM. Only if I start fresh it's fixed.

[Ed_P]

Open the USM GUI > Updates > Update USM

hmmm I wonder if your /tmp folder is full is the problem.

[alwaysfunk]

hmmm I wonder if your /tmp folder is full is the problem.

Nope... there's quite enough space on this key, but I flushed all the files in /tmp/ and I still get that vercheck.txt issue.
I can't really think of anything I modified that could have impacted USM, either way I'll just start over tomorrow with a new configuration.

[Ed_P]

Are you using a save.dat file?

[alwaysfunk]

Are you using a save.dat file?

Nope, it's on an ext4 FS. Anyway! I just (very unelegantly) deleted all /usm/ folders in /var/ and /tmp/ both in the fs and /changes/ and I just had to setup the slacky mirror again. Now I'm just left with the famous LIBS.TXT error when downloading software from slackonly but from what I understand it's a repo issue and I can't do anything about it.