Flatpack Failure when receiving data from the peer

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I tried to update my flatpaks with the GUI and also with the CLI (flatpak update), the later gives the following error messages:

Warning: While pulling runtime/org.freedesktop.Platform.GL32.default/x86_64/25.08 from remote flathub: While fetching https://dl.flathub.org/repo/objects/d2/19bef74eacf58fb9eb52e20f125f59b23493613339d7a257e824b9055b5d12.filez: [56] Failure when receiving data from the peer
Warning: While pulling runtime/org.freedesktop.Platform.GL32.default/x86_64/25.08-extra from remote flathub: While fetching https://dl.flathub.org/repo/objects/d2/19bef74eacf58fb9eb52e20f125f59b23493613339d7a257e824b9055b5d12.filez: [56] Failure when receiving data from the peer
Error: While pulling app/net.cozic.joplin_desktop/x86_64/stable from remote flathub: While fetching https://dl.flathub.org/repo/objects/63/69936efb192e642f902172098a4cf7e726d90165a59ad24574f60d92e96373.filez: [56] Failure when receiving data from the peer
Error: While pulling app/io.gitlab.librewolf-community/x86_64/stable from remote flathub: While fetching https://dl.flathub.org/repo/objects/92/efc8ab5174523f18ea9b1806c19142cdb04bb9a141e04ad1c3529a3ac7f3e5.filez: [56] Failure when receiving data from the peer
Error: While pulling app/org.chromium.Chromium/x86_64/stable from remote flathub: While fetching https://dl.flathub.org/repo/objects/59/3b77aad8cd4ee0bbee971dc3de893883765e67969c7413d6ea42b84911bdc8.filez: [56] Failure when receiving data from the peer
Error: While pulling app/app.zen_browser.zen/x86_64/stable from remote flathub: While fetching https://dl.flathub.org/repo/objects/ad/306aa7f699483ea830b2fd925d0161ce76d3e6f749d10d89d6c53ee07b2120.filez: [56] Failure when receiving data from the peer

I tried to update for many days now and it always throws such errors, how can I fix this?

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Welcome to our forums! :handshake:t3: That error means the download connection to Flathub is being reset. It’s almost always network-related, not a Flatpak bug.

Test with:

curl -4 -I https://dl.flathub.org/repo/summary
curl -6 -I https://dl.flathub.org/repo/summary

ping dl.flathub.org

If IPv6 fails, disable it and retry Flatpak.

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Try to repair any partial downloads:

flatpak repair --user
sudo flatpak repair

After repairs, run flatpak update --appstream.

Turn off any VPNs and remove proxy env vars before updating.

If curl https://dl.flathub.org is unstable, Flatpak updates will always fail.

I checked:

Edit: You can also try changing your DNS to 1.1.1.1 or 8.8.8.8 in network settings (just temporarily to test).

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I try to avoid flatpak - currently zero flatpak.
But I often had the same error. After a few hours, it worked most of the time.

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Welcome to our community Luke. Do you have an option to get the software you’re trying to get other than Flatpack? This is why I don’t use it too many bugs.

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