1007364 - OS X 10.6 nodes show upgrade request (modal dialog) for Mavericks

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Mozilla QA Graveyard :: Infrastructure, defect)

Description

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+1]]

At least on mm-osx-106-1 I can see a modal dialog which informs the user to upgrade to Mavericks. This can break our testruns, so we might want to disable such a notification.

Comment 1

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+1]]

Looks like that this notification is  coming through the AppStore. That's the only distribution method Mavericks is shipped. Not sure where to turn that off, and if it can't how often the dialog will be displayed.

Andrei, while you are updating the OS X machines, can you please have a look at this? Any changes we will have to document in our ESX documentation.

Comment 2

[Andrei Eftimie]

From what I quickly read on some discussion forums this has been added with the recent update.
I'm searching for the best way to disable this notification.

Comment 3

[Andrei Eftimie]

This: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/6060490?start=15&tstart=0#25426174

> The app store update doesn't actually alter AppStore, it adds  a new item
> /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/CommerceKit.framework/Versions/A/Resources/Not iceboard.app
>  
> which seems set to run every six hours via
> /System/Library/LaunchAgents/com.apple.noticeboard.plist

Opening `Not iceboard.app` shows this `Update to Mavericks` dialog.
And the noticeboard.plist file sets an interval of 21600s (6h) on this app.

I'll remove these both. We shouldn't see the notification again.

Comment 4

[Andrei Eftimie]

I will run the following commands:
> sudo rm /System/Library/LaunchAgents/com.apple.noticeboard.plist
> launchctl remove com.apple.noticeboard

This will delete the plist file and remove it from the launchd deamon.

I have checked 10.7 and both these file are present.
But launching the Noticeboard.app did not yield the same "Upgrade to Mavericks" dialog.

However removing this notification from our system is either way something we want. We only want manual control, no automatic checks. So I will remove the daemon from all OSX boxes.

Comment 5

[Andrei Eftimie]

I've removed the deamon and deleted the notification plist file from all 10.6 and 10.7 machines.
10.8 and 10.9 did not have this daemon running.

This issue should be fixed now.

Comment 6

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+1]]

As said earlier this has to be documented on Mana. Please make sure to do that before resolving the bug as fixed.

Comment 7

[Andrei Eftimie]

Henrik, I don't have access to edit the Mana page.

Comment 8

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+1]]

Ok, I have updated the page accordingly for the installation and upgrade sections.

Comment 9

[Andrei Eftimie]

Thank you