Bootc critical errors

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Just ran my daily check using bootc (sudo bootc upgrade) and I got the following error:

❯ sudo bootc update
layers already present: 67; layers needed: 5 (501.8 MB)
Fetched layers: 478.58 MiB in 31 seconds (15.25 MiB/s)                                       ⠓ Deploying
(bootc:30269): GLib-CRITICAL **: 08:37:03.637: g_atomic_ref_count_dec: assertion 'old_value > 0' failed

(bootc:30269): GLib-CRITICAL **: 08:37:03.645: g_atomic_ref_count_dec: assertion 'old_value > 0' failed

(bootc:30269): GLib-CRITICAL **: 08:37:03.674: g_atomic_ref_count_dec: assertion 'old_value > 0' failed
⠉ Deploying
(bootc:30269): GLib-CRITICAL **: 08:37:03.895: g_atomic_ref_count_dec: assertion 'old_value > 0' failed

(bootc:30269): GLib-CRITICAL **: 08:37:03.896: g_atomic_ref_count_dec: assertion 'old_value > 0' failed

(bootc:30269): GLib-CRITICAL **: 08:37:03.896: g_atomic_ref_count_dec: assertion 'old_value > 0' failed

(bootc:30269): GLib-CRITICAL **: 08:37:03.911: g_atomic_ref_count_dec: assertion 'old_value > 0' failed

(bootc:30269): GLib-CRITICAL **: 08:37:03.913: g_atomic_ref_count_dec: assertion 'old_value > 0' failed

(bootc:30269): GLib-CRITICAL **: 08:37:03.913: g_atomic_ref_count_dec: assertion 'old_value > 0' failed

(bootc:30269): GLib-CRITICAL **: 08:37:03.915: g_atomic_ref_count_dec: assertion 'old_value > 0' failed

(bootc:30269): GLib-CRITICAL **: 08:37:03.923: g_atomic_ref_count_dec: assertion 'old_value > 0' failed

(bootc:30269): GLib-CRITICAL **: 08:37:03.925: g_atomic_ref_count_dec: assertion 'old_value > 0' failed
  Deploying: done (13 seconds)                                                               Pruned images: 0 (layers: 0, objsize: 386.6 MB)
Queued for next boot: ostree-image-signed:docker://ghcr.io/ublue-os/bluefin:latest
  Version: latest-42.20250423.1
  Digest: sha256:55028952fe1f66ef4294c81ef8bc4b6efb7c02eefb8ede1a604b6f2adb5b78cb
Total new layers: 72    Size: 3.4 GB
Removed layers:   5     Size: 502.1 MB
Added layers:     5     Size: 501.8 MB
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Is it stuck there or does a prompt come back?

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The prompt does come back.

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Happened again this morning.

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Does the update apply? Like if you reboot does it go into the right image?

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Yes. It appears to have applied. It just drops those disconcerting errors during the process. I suspect it’s the bit of code that lists the changes.