When attempting to install an app, I get the following:
$ flatpak install flathub com.sigil_ebook.Sigil
Looking for matches…
error: Unable to load summary from remote flathub: While fetching https://dl.flathub.org/repo/summaries/80b9d91c658abf281a7f239d883b03b1be71b36f9d9a47a3396befb02d9d8abf.idx.sig: [28] Timeout was reached
When trying to update, I get a long string of errors starting with:
$ flatpak update
Looking for updates…
F: Warning: Treating remote fetch error as non-fatal since runtime/org.winehq.Wine.mono/x86_64/stable-25.08 is already installed: No such ref 'runtime/org.winehq.Wine.mono/x86_64/stable-25.08' in remote flathub
Hello. I’ve been having trouble trying to check for package updates through flatpak command line. After passing the -v switch into flatpak, flathub seems to be timing out trying to retrieve a signature file.
$ flatpak update -v
F: No installations directory in /etc/flatpak/installations.d. Skipping
F: Opening system flatpak installation at path /var/lib/flatpak
F: Opening user flatpak installation at path /home/icesan/.local/share/flatpak
Looking for updates…
F: Fetching summary index file for remote ‘flathub’
F: Loading https://dl.flathub.org/repo/summary.idx using curl
F: Received 10001 bytes
F: Loading https://dl.flathub.org/repo/summaries/[redacted].idx.sig using curl
F: Should retry request (remaining: 5 retries), due to transient error: While fetching https://dl.flathub.org/repo/summaries/[redacted].idx.sig: [28] Timeout was reached
F: Loading https://dl.flathub.org/repo/summaries/[redacted].idx.sig using curl
F: Should retry request (remaining: 4 retries), due to transient error: While fetching https://dl.flathub.org/repo/summaries/[redacted].idx.sig: [28] Timeout was reached
F: Loading https://dl.flathub.org/repo/summaries/[redacted].idx.sig using curl
F: Should retry request (remaining: 3 retries), due to transient error: While fetching https://dl.flathub.org/repo/summaries/[redacted].idx.sig: [28] Timeout was reached
F: Loading https://dl.flathub.org/repo/summaries/[redacted].idx.sig using curl
F: Should retry request (remaining: 2 retries), due to transient error: While fetching https://dl.flathub.org/repo/summaries/[redacted].idx.sig: [28] Timeout was reached
F: Loading https://dl.flathub.org/repo/summaries/[redacted].idx.sig using curl
F: Should retry request (remaining: 1 retries), due to transient error: While fetching https://dl.flathub.org/repo/summaries/[redacted].idx.sig: [28] Timeout was reached
F: Loading https://dl.flathub.org/repo/summaries/[redacted].idx.sig using curl
F: Failed to download optional summary index: While fetching https://dl.flathub.org/repo/summaries/[redacted].idx.sig: [28] Timeout was reached
Manually retrieving the signature through curl took over 2 minutes of stall time to receive 54 bytes.
$ curl -o Desktop/yeah.sig https://dl.flathub.org/repo/summaries/[redacted].idx.sig
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
100 54 0 54 0 0 0 0 --:--:-- 0:02:44 --:--:-- 12
Is there an issue at flathub’s servers, or is it something that I have to fix manually? If it’s the latter, then how can I fix it?
The repository of everything you download is hosted by a 3rd-party, Fastly. They recently reported issues on their end (https://www.fastlystatus.com/), which had then also taken part of Flathub with it. Follow their status page to get informed when you can install and update again. Right now it does not look like an issue actually caused by Flathub.
If you want to nerd out, grab the requested URL from e.g. “flatpak -vvv update”, throw it in cURL, wait until their reverse-proxy times out, grab the node’s name and look it up. You will find it matches the Fastly naming scheme and also fits into an older infra post by Flathub, where they mentioned being sponsored by Fastly. Don’t be mad at them, pls.
Similar issue here, this is what it ends up when trying to update, and some apps just won’t install
was trying to install some dotfiles and a lot of stuff is not donwloaded lol
The repository of everything you download is hosted by a 3rd-party, Fastly. They recently reported issues on their end (
