[RESOLVED] - Gnome patching pop-up and notification

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[RESOLVED] - Gnome patching pop-up and notification

Post by warron.french » 2018/08/08 18:33:20

Several people in my user community have reported seeing a gui pop-up while logged into a Gnome Desktop on RedHat 7.4.

I don't have personal experience with observing the problem, and I am hoping this forum can help me out. I know it is not much information, I am sorry.

The pop-up was for new patches that were made available, and my organization wants to suppress these pop-ups.

Can someone please help me with achieving this? How can I confirm the results, do I have to wait for new patches that may apply to my test machines before I can validate the change is actually in effect?

I require the ability to do this from the command line so that I can encode a delivered solution through Puppet.

I have attempted to use the following link - https://stackoverflow.com/questions/801 ... ifications:
and I have attempted both Answer3 and Answer4, but did not see instant results.

I have also attempted enabled=0 in /etc/yum/pluginconf.d/rhnplugin.conf, too.
Also attempted to comment out /usr/libexec/rhsmd -s in /etc/cron.daily/rhsmd.

Do I need to wait for the next set of patches before I can see this change reflected? What gives?

Thanks.
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Re: Gnome patching pop-up and notification

Post by warron.french » 2018/08/08 19:44:57

UPDATE!

I tried this Red Hat Access Article - https://access.redhat.com/solutions/3215361

It doesn't give me a warm and fuzzy feeling, and here's why; perhaps someone can explain to me what I am doing wrong, or how I am understanding the tool incorrectly, especially after reading the first Issue in the article and it matches verbatim what I am trying to address.

I disabled and stopped the service, confirmed with systemctl status -l rhsmcertd that the service was indeed stopped.

Then I wanted to confirm that this change took effect and blocked the Software updates available" Notification; and I did figure out where this was "popping up" I wouldn't call it a pop-up anymore, but it was a notification in the upper-right corner in the same date/time applet with a black dot as the notifier.

After 2-3 reboots, the notifications definitely were no longer there, and the thing that was triggering it was still not applied to the machine.

Now there is a newer problem, this is where the understanding might come in...
The notifications won't come back now that I have re-enabled and restarted the rhsmcertd service; even after 5 more reboots.
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Re: Gnome patching pop-up and notification

Post by warron.french » 2018/08/21 17:33:04

Update2!

I also found this Red Hat Access Article - https://access.redhat.com/solutions/2372971

And the packagekit.service was already active (running) and I saw, still, no notifications.

I don't know what else to try and trust.
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Re: Gnome patching pop-up and notification

Post by owl102 » 2018/08/21 18:11:21

Do

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gsettings set org.gnome.software download-updates false
as user, *not* as root. (This has to be repeated for every user on the machine who don't want to see these pop-ups.)

As alternative you could disable/remove packagekit, but this way Gnome Software will stop working, too.

BTW: I cannot say anything about the Red Hat links you have posted as this content is only available for people with Red Hat subscription.
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Re: Gnome patching pop-up and notification

Post by George99 » 2018/08/21 19:27:45

owl102, fyi you can easily create an account free of charge at Red Hat and even download and install a server version of RHEL, if you want to use it for non-profit reasons.

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Re: Gnome patching pop-up and notification

Post by owl102 » 2018/08/21 19:56:11

George99 wrote:
2018/08/21 19:27:45
owl102, fyi you can easily create an account free of charge at Red Hat
I have an account (since I had an RHEL 6 subscription for 2 years in the past) and I'm logged in, but this content requires an active subscription.

However: I don't need that content, it's the thread starter who is asking for help.
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Re: Gnome patching pop-up and notification

Post by George99 » 2018/08/21 20:07:01

Of course you are right ;)

But just in case: This type of account is called "Red Hat Developer Program account" it's open for everyone and free of charge.

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Re: Gnome patching pop-up and notification

Post by warron.french » 2018/11/14 00:21:22

owl102 wrote:
2018/08/21 18:11:21
Do

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gsettings set org.gnome.software download-updates false
as user, *not* as root. (This has to be repeated for every user on the machine who don't want to see these pop-ups.)

As alternative you could disable/remove packagekit, but this way Gnome Software will stop working, too.

BTW: I cannot say anything about the Red Hat links you have posted as this content is only available for people with Red Hat subscription.
Hi owl102, I am assuming (and you know what they say about assumptions) that since the command ends in what appears to be a boolean term ('false') I can reverse the result back by simply using the term 'true'. Would that be correct?

And, just as important for understanding, would I see the patches that would have been applied, become notifications again after setting the value to true?

Thank you,
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Re: Gnome patching pop-up and notification

Post by warron.french » 2018/11/14 00:25:43

I am adding a picture to describe what I am talking about in terms of the "patching popup."

Just in case there may be a misinterpretation.

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Re: Gnome patching pop-up and notification

Post by owl102 » 2018/11/14 09:17:54

warron.french wrote:
2018/11/14 00:21:22
Hi owl102, I am assuming (and you know what they say about assumptions) that since the command ends in what appears to be a boolean term ('false') I can reverse the result back by simply using the term 'true'. Would that be correct?
As far as I know: Yes.
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