Hi All,
I've got two brand new machines (a Mini and a MacBook Air) that came preinstalled with Sierra. Once I run Recon followed by "sudo jamf policy", it runs most of the Policies as expected. However, once we get to running Software Updates, the terminal throws up a bunch of broadcast messages, throws up a bunch of error chimes, and never completes. I can eventually cancel out, but it will repeat at each check-in - bonging if I leave the terminal open. We're running Casper Suite 9.96. Here's the output:
Executing Policy Software Update
Setting Software Update preferences to apple.com for all accounts...
Installing all available Software Updates...
Broadcast Message from admin@itmac1
(no tty) at 15:21 CST...
Jan 12 15:21:11 itmac1 softwareupdated[403]: Adding client SUUpdateServiceCl
ient pid=8058, uid=0, installAuth=NO rights=(), transactions=0 (/usr/sbin/softw
areupdate)
Broadcast Message from admin@itmac1
(no tty) at 15:21 CST...
Jan 12 15:21:11 itmac1 softwareupdated[403]: SUScan: Scan for client pid 403
(/System/Library/CoreServices/Software Update.app/Contents/Resources/softwareu
pdated)
Broadcast Message from admin@itmac1
(no tty) at 15:21 CST...
Jan 12 15:21:11 itmac1 softwareupdated[403]: SoftwareUpdate: Catalog Not Mod
ified since last scan ("62125-545e9e26c5400")
[Okay..... I'm deleting all the broadcast messages going forward to save space...]
Jan 12 15:21:11 itmac1 softwareupdated[403]: SUScan: Using catalog https://s
wscan.apple.com/content/catalogs/others/index-10.12-10.11-10.10-10.9-mountainli
on-lion-snowleopard-leopard.merged-1.sucatalog.gz
Jan 12 15:21:24 itmac1 softwareupdated[403]: SUScan: Elapsed scan time = 12.6
Jan 12 15:21:24 itmac1 softwareupdated[403]: Scan (f=1, d=0) completed
Jan 12 15:21:24 itmac1 softwareupdated[403]: 0 updates found:
Result of Software Update: No updates are available.
Software Update Tool
Copyright 2002-2015 Apple Inc.
Finding available software
Software update finished. Reboot is not required.
Mounting [JSS] to /Volumes/CasperShare 5...
Jan 12 15:21:24 itmac1 softwareupdated[403]: Removing client SUUpdateService
Client pid=8058, uid=0, installAuth=YES rights=(system.install.apple-software,
system.install.apple-software.standard-user, system.install.software, com.apple
.SoftwareUpdate.modify-settings), transactions=1 (/usr/sbin/softwareupdate)
[It then repeats from there unless Control-C it...]
If I run "defaults read /Library/Preferences/com.apple.SoftwareUpdate CatalogURL", I get:
2017-01-12 15:36:57.797 defaults[8445:66338]
The domain/default pair of (/Library/Preferences/com.apple.SoftwareUpdate, CatalogURL) does not exist
Reading the whole file, I get:
{
LastAttemptBuildVersion = 16A323;
LastAttemptSystemVersion = "10.12.2 (16C67)";
LastBackgroundSuccessfulDate = "2017-01-12 01:08:33 +0000";
LastFullSuccessfulDate = "2017-01-12 21:34:09 +0000";
LastRecommendedUpdatesAvailable = 0;
LastResultCode = 2;
LastSessionSuccessful = 1;
LastSuccessfulDate = "2017-01-12 21:34:09 +0000";
LastUpdatesAvailable = 0;
RecommendedUpdates = (
);
SkipLocalCDN = 0;
}
If I run "sudo softwareupdate --clear-catalog", I get the following along with another error chime:
Changed catalog to Apple production
Broadcast Message from admin@itmac1
(no tty) at 15:41 CST...
Jan 12 15:41:15 itmac1 softwareupdated[403]: BackgroundActivity: Got CheckFo
rCatalogChange
I get the same behavior if I run "sudo softwareupdate -ai" AFTER the policy runs, but had no problems if I ran it BEFORE running Recon.
So far, this is only happening on new Macs shipped with Sierra. Has softwareupdate changed? Do I need an even newer version of the Casper Suite/JAMF Pro? Am I simply missing a setting somewhere?
Thanks in advance,
Jon
