USM bug reports

[rych]

The safm.sh stumbled too at some stage. I decided to delete /var/usm and /etc/usm, reboot, and start anew. Then usm eventually worked well. But before it did, it presented me with a different BUG:

As it resolves dependencies and downloads archives it doesn't seem to be checking for their integrity, and continues merrily to covert them to modules or bundles, which apparently install fine, except the application is broken. I went to the /tmp/usm and tried to open each archive and yes, one was corrupt.

Not sure if anyone is developing usm currently. For now I've decided that if anything goes wrong at all, any error message, I will be erasing /var/usm, /etc/usm, AND /tmp/usm. Then I must wait for a few days, unfortunately, before trying again. Only when everything looks smooth can I hope to have a successful installation.

[Ed_P]

You will note from the distribution files that there are many mirrors. Some mirrors may have downloaded some corrupted files and some may not have. Using the scripts you have tried helps to get around the damaged mirrors. Starting from scratch repeatedly doesn't seem to be the fastest approach to a solution.

[Jack]

What cause this error? How can it be fixed?

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guest@porteus:~$ su
Password: 
root@porteus:/home/guest# usm -u all
find: `/tmp/xdg-runtime-guest/gvfs': Permission denied
slackware was updated 477 seconds ago. Skipping.
slackwarepatches was updated 465 seconds ago. Skipping.
slacky was updated 461 seconds ago. Skipping.
salix was updated 445 seconds ago. Skipping.
alien was updated 439 seconds ago. Skipping.
ponce was updated 433 seconds ago. Skipping.
slackonly was updated 379 seconds ago. Skipping.
sbo was updated 268 seconds ago. Skipping.

extra-deps.txt was updated 266 seconds ago. Skipping.
ignore-deps.txt was updated 265 seconds ago. Skipping.

You can change the time limit for skipping in: /etc/usm/usm.conf
The default is 3 hours
root@porteus:/home/guest#

[Ed_P]

I just ran this on my Cinnamon 3.2.2 system.

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guest@porteus:~$ su
Password: 
root@porteus:/home/guest# usm -u all
slackware was updated 285 seconds ago. Skipping.
slackwarepatches was updated 276 seconds ago. Skipping.
slacky was updated 271 seconds ago. Skipping.
salix was updated 202 seconds ago. Skipping.
alien was updated 260 seconds ago. Skipping.
ponce was updated 254 seconds ago. Skipping.
slackonly was updated 229 seconds ago. Skipping.
sbo was updated 202 seconds ago. Skipping.

extra-deps.txt was updated 202 seconds ago. Skipping.
ignore-deps.txt was updated 202 seconds ago. Skipping.

You can change the time limit for skipping in: /etc/usm/usm.conf
The default is 3 hours
root@porteus:/home/guest# ls -l /tmp
total 14576
drwx------ 2 guest users      60 Nov 28 19:23 firefox_guest/
-rw-r--r-- 1 root  root  7462912 Nov 28 19:22 my40changes.xzm
-rw-r--r-- 1 root  root  7462912 Nov 28 19:21 mychanges.xzm
drwx------ 2 guest users      80 Nov 28 19:13 pulse-PKdhtXMmr18n/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root  root       40 Nov 28 19:19 usm/
drwx------ 2 root  root      220 Nov 28 19:24 usm.ml4kcr/
root@porteus:/home/guest# 
 

The permission error doesn't appear to stop the USM update from running and a search of the forum shows it appearing in several of Bogomips postings.

I wonder if it's tied to a virtual machine.