I Keep Getting This Message...

[David1986H]

Every day I get this message popping up saying there's a software update, even though iv been on the latest version since the day it was released .

 

[DeltaMac]

So, nothing is showing in your Software Update?
If you have Beta updates (maybe for Sequoia) displayed, you can always turn beta updates Off.

 

[iSuzan]

I also have this on 2 machines after updating to 14.6.1. No Beta-Updates on both machines.

 

[CoastalOR]

I saw the same on a MBP M1Pro the next day once after updating to 14.6 & 14.6.1.

 

[camelia]

I am having the same messaging
Thanks
Camelia

 

[txb_811]

same ,since 14.6.

 

[Minipudding]

Same for me on my M3 Air since 14.6/Sonoma. I actually came here just a minute ago to see if anyone else was experiencing the same quirk...

 

[bogdanw]

What does softwareupdate -l return in Terminal?

 

[Minipudding]

What does softwareupdate -l return in Terminal?

In my case nothing. Nor does --list --all return anything so it's not even some SDK update or similar for Xcode or the command line utilities. It's just some new bug introduced with Sonoma.

 

[bogdanw]

Maybe it's about MobileDeviceOnDemand.pkg & CoreTypes.pkg
https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...date-not-working-disconnecting-ipads.2425382/

Latest links

https://swcdn.apple.com/content/downloads/20/09/052-14079-A_ZNHTMLGY09/u2qgmb5tpqznzoxgv7p54imo65puzthh2u/MobileDeviceOnDemand.pkg

https://swcdn.apple.com/content/downloads/20/09/052-14079-A_ZNHTMLGY09/u2qgmb5tpqznzoxgv7p54imo65puzthh2u/CoreTypes.pkg

 

[tommiy]

same for myself post the update. Every new day has the same message.

 

[tommiy]

still same every single day.....you click on it and it opens settings and shows no update.

 

[bogdanw]

Do you have any folder in /Library/Updates/ ?
Has anybody tried to run OnyX - maintenance? https://www.titanium-software.fr/en/onyx.html

 

[arkitect]

Every day I get this message popping up saying there's a software update, even though iv been on the latest version since the day it was released .

View attachment 2405159

👍
I was just about to post a new thread and saw yours.

Yup.
Same here… seems like it is every 48 hours.

Irritating beyond belief.

 

[Steve Gosselin]

Other users including myself of macOS 14.6 & 14.6.1 + macOS 15 have this erroneous "Updates Available" system notification.
// https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...-troubleshooting-sonoma.2391774/post-33306639 + https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...te-available-message-no-update-there.2433405/

 

[Grumpus]

Do you have any folder in /Library/Updates/ ?
Has anybody tried to run OnyX - maintenance? https://www.titanium-software.fr/en/onyx.html

Yes, there seems to be a Rosetta update package under /Library/Updates on my MBP:

$ sw_vers
ProductName:        macOS
ProductVersion:        14.6.1
BuildVersion:        23G93
$ ls -lR /Library/Updates
total 184
-rw-r--r--@ 1 root  wheel    87K Aug 18 06:59 ProductMetadata.plist
drwxr-xr-x  3 root  wheel    96B Aug  7 21:13 Rosetta
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   222B Aug  7 08:54 index.plist

/Library/Updates/Rosetta:
total 0
drwxr-xr-x  3 root  wheel    96B Aug  7 21:13 SoftwareUpdate

/Library/Updates/Rosetta/SoftwareUpdate:
total 752
-rw-------  1 _softwareupdate  _softwareupdate   376K Aug  7 21:01 RosettaUpdateAuto.pkg

My last run of Onyx was 2 days ago, preceeding a Time Machine backup, using the default Maintenance tasks.

 

[bogdanw]

Yes, there seems to be a Rosetta update package under /Library/Updates on my MBP

I would delete everything in /Library/Updates from Recovery.
The contents can be deleted from Finder if SIP is disabled.
You could also try to install the Rosetta update.
I explained here https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...2-for-apple-silicon-macs-no-terminal.2433452/ how to get the update packages for Rosetta.

 

[Grumpus]

I would delete everything in /Library/Updates from Recovery.

Sounds reasonable, but it'd be nice to hear from others who've seen the spurious update notification as to whether they have the /Library/Updates/Rosetta folder.

This may be old news to others, but in casting about for a way to see what version of Rosetta is installed on my machine, I found this haiku:

$ cat /Library/Apple/usr/share/rosetta/rosetta
translation is done
as preferred long in advance
rosetta idles

 

[Weaselboy]

Sounds reasonable, but it'd be nice to hear from others who've seen the spurious update notification as to whether they have the /Library/Updates/Rosetta folder.

This may be old news to others, but in casting about for a way to see what version of Rosetta is installed on my machine, I found this haiku:

$ cat /Library/Apple/usr/share/rosetta/rosetta
translation is done
as preferred long in advance
rosetta idles

I'm getting the same updates available popup each morning.

I have the same Rosetta files in /Library/Updates/ you mentioned.

 

[bogdanw]

My suspicion is that Rosetta was downloaded before the macOS update (14.6 or 14.6.1), but not installed and it can’t be installed as the downloaded version is not for 14.6. The installation keeps failing, the files are not deleted, hence the message.
You could compare the RosettaUpdateAuto pkg from /Library/Updates/ with the one for 14.6.1 (23G93)
https://swcdn.apple.com/content/dow...zinznh6yj833ti2z5o26hyr/RosettaUpdateAuto.pkg

 

[Grumpus]

I'm getting the same updates available popup each morning.

I have the same Rosetta files in /Library/Updates/ you mentioned.

Thanks for verifying. I'm going to follow @bogdanw's suggestion and nuke the folder from Recovery and see what happens, solely in the interests of science - it's really a very minor irritation, after all.

 

[Grumpus]

My suspicion is that Rosetta was downloaded before the macOS update (14.6 or 14.6.1), but not installed and it can’t be installed as the downloaded version is not for 14.6. The installation keeps failing, the files are not deleted, hence the message.
You could compare the RosettaUpdateAuto pkg from /Library/Updates/ with the one for 14.6.1 (23G93)
https://swcdn.apple.com/content/dow...zinznh6yj833ti2z5o26hyr/RosettaUpdateAuto.pkg

The sha1sum is the same for the downloaded pkg and the one in /Library/Updates/Rosetta:

$ sudo shasum -a 1 ~/Desktop/RosettaUpdateAuto.pkg /Library/Updates/Rosetta/SoftwareUpdate/RosettaUpdateAuto.pkg
Password:
c0135f6db26fc248c20714ebe80371f8bd99350f  /Users/grumpus/Desktop/RosettaUpdateAuto.pkg
c0135f6db26fc248c20714ebe80371f8bd99350f  /Library/Updates/Rosetta/SoftwareUpdate/RosettaUpdateAuto.pkg

The download pkg installs with no errors. About to boot to recovery and delete the /Library/Updates/Rosetta directory now.

 

[Grumpus]

Ok, I removed /Volumes/Macintosh HD - Data/Library/Updates/Rosetta, shutdown, and then restarted. Except for ProductMetadata.plist, /Library/Updates is now empty. I've seen no update notification so far, encouraging since I've been seeing it soon after logging in from a cold start.

 

[tommiy]

yes i have a rosetta update sitting there as well same shasum as the download. Can't install it as it fails if doing that with you don't have permissions.

 

[tommiy]

thought I would boot into recovery and remove it but when i get to /Volumes/Machintosh HD/Library there is no Updates directory. Do I need to disable SIP?