System hanging with USM -u all

Post#1 by **gotPortee** » 28 Mar 2019, 04:38

Hi All,
After installing Porteus 3.0 MATE into a hard drive I tried to do an update.
USM -u all

The system seems to keep hanging at CHECKSUM.md5.db
I'm guessing this may be due to the system being installed on HD?

Thanks in advance!

Post#2 by **Ed_P** » 28 Mar 2019, 05:39

No, but it could be due to a bad mirror file. Note which database is getting the error then find it's mirror file in /etc/usm/ and tweak it to use a different mirror.

Post#3 by **gotPortee** » 29 Mar 2019, 15:55

hmm. I guess I'm also wondering how long it should take to download the CHECKSUMS.md5.gz?

I'm on a residential DSL connection.
If the download takes longer than 30 minutes would that be a confirmation its hung up?

Post#4 by **Ed_P** » 29 Mar 2019, 16:19

I'm residential also and here is the output of my USM update.

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guest@porteus:~$ su
Password: 
root@porteus:/home/guest# clock
2019-03-29 08:04:50.072431-04:00               <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
root@porteus:/home/guest# usm -u all
 Starting slackware database update 
Downloading: vercheck.txt  DONE
Downloading: CHECKSUMS.md5  DONE
Downloading: MANIFEST.bz2  DONE
Downloading: PACKAGES.TXT  DONE
Downloading: LIBS.TXT.gz  DONE
File verification was good.
Optimizing manifest
 slackware  database updated. 

Updating config file

 Starting slackwarepatches database update 
Downloading: CHECKSUMS.md5  DONE
Downloading: MANIFEST.bz2  DONE
Downloading: PACKAGES.TXT  DONE
Downloading: LIBS.TXT.gz  DONE
File verification was good.
Optimizing manifest
 slackwarepatches  database updated. 

 Starting slacky database update 
Downloading: CHECKSUMS.md5.gz  DONE
Downloading: MANIFEST.bz2  DONE
Downloading: PACKAGES.TXT.gz  DONE
Downloading: LIBS.TXT.gz  DONE
File verification was good.
Optimizing manifest
 slacky  database updated. 

 Starting salix database update 
Downloading: CHECKSUMS.md5  DONE
Downloading: PACKAGES.TXT  DONE
Downloading: LIBS.TXT.gz  DONE
Downloading: OPTIFEST.gz  DONE
 salix  database updated. 

 Starting alien database update 
Downloading: CHECKSUMS.md5.gz  DONE
Downloading: MANIFEST.bz2  DONE
Downloading: PACKAGES.TXT.gz  DONE
Downloading: LIBS.TXT.gz  DONE
File verification was good.
Optimizing manifest
 alien  database updated. 

 Starting ponce database update 
Downloading: CHECKSUMS.md5.gz  DONE
Downloading: MANIFEST.bz2  DONE
Downloading: PACKAGES.TXT.gz  DONE
Downloading: LIBS.TXT.gz  DONE
Optimizing manifest
 ponce  database updated. 

 Starting slackonly database update 
Downloading: CHECKSUMS.md5.gz  DONE
Downloading: MANIFEST.bz2  DONE
Downloading: PACKAGES.TXT.gz  DONE
Downloading: LIBS.TXT.gz  DONE
File verification was good.
Optimizing manifest
 slackonly  database updated. 

 Starting sbo database update 
SLACKBUILDS.TXT.gz
Downloading: SLACKBUILDS.TXT.gz  DONE
 sbo  database updated. 


Downloading: extra-deps.txt  DONE
Downloading: ignore-deps.txt  DONE

root@porteus:/home/guest# clock
2019-03-29 08:06:34.557360-04:00           <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
root@porteus:/home/guest#

Note the times on the two clock commands.

If your still having problems with the update you need to tweak the CHECKSUMS file's database mirror file.
ls -l /etc/usm/mirrors*.txt And the preferred way to optimize the mirror, and all the mirrors, is to run the sesm.sh script shown here: [INFO & SCRIPT] Slackware Mirror Settings for USM