MAS - Software Updates - Refresh

[ImAMacGuy]

Something we've had going on since 10.8.x is the MAS for updates doesn't work when we first open it.

After a fresh image, we launch the MAS and updates does it's twirly spiny icon and says no updates. However if you hit Cmd+R and refresh it, the twirly spiny icon comes back and says there are updates...
any way to script that forced refresh?

[acdesigntech]

Maybe you could issue a second softwareupdate -l? Maybe sleep 10 or something first.

[sgrall]

Did you ever find an automated solution for this? Command line softwareupdate was showing the updates, but App Store was not. Doing the refresh worked, but our end-users won't know to do this, and communications with the end-users here are lacking, at best...

[jguz]

anyone else experiencing this or have any leads on a fix?

[hodgesji]

We are experiencing it. Removing Appstore preferences don't help either. I am going to keep digging.

[JPDyson]

I've seen this as well. Haven't really dug into it much, since I don't want my techs or users in there anyway, but it would be nice to know.

[mikeh]

We'd been seeing this with our OS images for 10.8.[0-4], but not with our recently-built 10.8.5 image. There were some other issues with the previous images that were also fixed with 10.8.5, but right off the top of my head I can't remember what they were. I didn't build the images. I'll ask the person that did build the images and post what he remembers on Monday.