Reflector Simple issues....?

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I’m on EOS Plasma just updated to the new reflector-simple actually, i launch it select United States & Canada https then click ok and I get this

reflector-simple is working, please wait …

it went on for well over a minute, then i closed it out and boom the list pops up asking for my password. Until recently it used to take literally seconds to get a updated server list. I see using our forums/google some are having issues, wanted to start my own thread as not to hijack someone else’s. Thanks!

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#same-here

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I’m just leaving it run to see what happens … nothing. :rofl:

Edit: Closed the terminal window and nothing came up.

Edit: Sorry, Actually it did but it’s in the window in the taskbar?

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If I remember correctly, @manuel said that the dev for reflector changed how he is doing things and reflector (which reflector simple relies on) now takes between 2 to 3 minutes to run.

Pudge

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Ok thanks

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Now that you mention it … :man_facepalming:t5:
Thanks for the reminder!

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@Pudge
It works if you close the terminal window but i left it run and it’s not opening the save window with results. Just keeps running.

Screenshot_20201209_165710

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Yea mine does the exact same thing.

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If you run update mirrors from the welcome app it’s almost instantaneous. :thinking:

Edit: I think @manuel will have to check this as it may some issue with the software?

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Sorry it took so long, I had to fire up one of my x86_64 computers to check on things as reflector/reflector simple do not exist in ARM.

From the Welcome screen, I initiated Update Mirrors, entered US & https, left the welcome screen up and went and checked E-mail. After a period of time, it came back with a terminal window with a list and offering to save to the mirrorlist. It worked as expected, just took a lot longer. Remember, the welcome screen is the parent window, the results come back in a window created by a child process.

I also started reflector-simple outside of welcome from a terminal as user
$ reflector-simple
and it completed as expected.

Edit:
I am not sure if reflector-simple was intended to run outside of welcome or not as there isn’t a man page for it. As per @ricklinux manuel will have to answer that.

Pudge

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I ran it through the welcome app & its the same as running reflector-simple.

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I wonder if we don’t have it configured? Because mine ran forever and did nothing!
Edit: Do you have to configure this?

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I don’t recall ever having to configure reflector-simple.

Pudge

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I just tried it again and now when you click on reflector-simple it automatically brings up the list. There is no terminal opening and spinning icon. :thinking: This is strange.

Edit: So now it’s working.

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It works fine for me, but I haven’t updated this machine for a few days. Let me update and see if it still works.

EDIT:
both
reflector 2020.12-1 -> 2020.12.7.1-1
reflector-simple 1.8-1 -> 1.9-1
are part of the update. Let’s see what happens after I complete the update.

Pudge

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Look here! :grin:

[ricklinux@eos-kde ~]$ sudo pacman -Syu
[sudo] password for ricklinux: 
:: Synchronizing package databases...
 core is up to date
 extra                    1643.4 KiB  14.2 MiB/s 00:00 [----------------------------] 100%
 community                   5.2 MiB  31.8 MiB/s 00:00 [----------------------------] 100%
 multilib is up to date
 endeavouros                14.7 KiB   133 KiB/s 00:00 [----------------------------] 100%
:: Starting full system upgrade...
resolving dependencies...
looking for conflicting packages...

Packages (2) boost-libs-1.74.0-2  reflector-simple-1.9-1

Total Download Size:   2.38 MiB
Total Installed Size:  9.57 MiB
Net Upgrade Size:      0.00 MiB

:: Proceed with installation? [Y/n]

Edit: Just updated it and now it’s doing it again. Terminal is open running with spinning icon.

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Edit: Interesting, i already have these installed and it still taking forever… :thinking:

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When it works properly the terminal window shouldn’t open in my opinion. I had it working then updated and it didn’t work. I closed the terminal window and tried it again a few times and now it seems to be working. Comes up fast with the list and you select and then it runs and opens the password box.

Edit: Spoke too soon. :no_good_man:

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I just finished the update, and it still works for me both from welcome and outside of welcome. If anything, it is faster than it was prior to update.

Pudge

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Don’t know what to say but I know @Christopher67 is on KDE and so am i?

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