Unable to update Flatpaks

It seems that I can install Flatpaks but updating doesn’t work.

This is what I am getting:

❯ flatpak -vv update --appstream
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/xariann/.local/share/flatpak
F: flathub:x86_64 appstream age 18446744073709551615 is greater than ttl 0
Updating appstream data for remote flathub
F: Fetching summary index file for remote ‘flathub’
F: Loading ``https://dl.flathub.org/repo/summary.idx`` using curl
F: Received 10001 bytes
F: Loaded indexed summary file e0279d843f6797b486c034820dc2264e79477a661d6c7c26d819ac6b43857a17 from cache for remote ‘flathub’
F: flatpak_dir_pull: Using commit ca1cbfc7798d1f9a209bb1854b67e682d1b29d4644b00fcaf8f7b1460a868497 for pull of ref appstream2/x86_64 from remote flathub
Error updating: While pulling appstream2/x86_64 from remote flathub: While fetching ``https://dl.flathub.org/repo/delta-indexes/yh/y_x3mNH5ogm7GFS2fmgtGynUZEsA_K+PexRgqGhJc.index:`` [28] Timeout was reached

I removed flathub and reinstalled it to no avail.

Arch Linux.

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Same issue.

Debian 13

Also getting this problem. I’m on CachyOS. Seems like maybe flatpak repo problem. Will give an update after more digging

EDIT: I want to preface that I know essentially nothing about flatpaks and what they are, so apologies for any bad/incorrect terminology or phrasing.

Upon further testing, it seems like this is a flathub issue. I have tried cleaning out my flatpak metadata cache and rerunning the update and still nothing. Hopefully this is an issue on their end that they can solve quickly.

Final Update (hopefully): Seems like the issue has been resolved for me. I am able to run appstream updates today. I haven’t done anything to my system to fix it myself, it just started working.

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I’m also having issues on both Pop OS 24.04 and Bazzite

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same issue, posted about it here:

Running: Pop!_OS 22.04 LTS x86_64

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Meanwhile https://status.flathub.org/ shows no problem now and did not earlier.

There is clearly a problem.

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Updates seem to work for me today, are you still having issues?

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