Is it normal that the Arch News page has opened by itself?

[Kresimir]

@joekamprad

hmm we should include a challenge question popup system to check if user is not that noob anymore and if so uninstall the notifier

I think “noobs” should be the first ones to uninstall it. There would be less confusion if random websites didn’t just pop up unpredictably – such a thing would confuse users who are not “noobs”, too.

[manuel]

The latest package eos-update-notifier 24.4.2-1 has this fixed.
It will no more show the upstream news page.

I will likely add a related new option to eos-update where it is more suitable.

[joekamprad]

@Kresimir

I think “noobs” should be the first ones to uninstall it. There would be less confusion if random websites didn’t just pop up unpredictably – such a thing would confuse users who are not “noobs”, too.

This was not a feature ?

[joekamprad]

funny?

No or Not

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[adreampuppet]

For topgrade users, new contents from the Arch News page is printed at the beginning of the topgrade script. This morning when I logged on to EOS, Firefox opened by itself to the Arch News page, and then I ran topgrade, which gave me the exact same news about Levant winning his uncontested race.

[Archnoob]

It happened to me too. I just ignored it since it was only the real arch news page

I’d be worried if something else popped up or if the news page was a fake one that asked me to install something

[drunkenvicar]

@Archnoob

since it was only the real arch news page

still these things keep my antennae up.

@Archnoob

I’d be worried if something else popped up or if the news page was a fake one that asked me to install somethin

yes. freak out time: opening to a political ad, a prompt for a virus scan, a random indoctrination video, a page with your credit history, a deepfake of you driving OJ to McDonalds right after, the list could go on…
–drunken winston smith

[DromundKaas]

It happens to me, too. However, I had an explanation because at the same time I saw another change.

While usually my boot menu had “EndeavourOS” as an entry, it now says “Arch linux”. I saw the page opening and thought it could be a thing on base Arch, because it’s the Arch news. Maybe it works similar to our update notifier that happens a few minutes after boot.

So I waited if I would find a thread describing the same problem, and here we are.

[blind_confused]

@Kresimir

You don’t need some script to tell you that there are always updates available.

I think it’s more about just forgetting that the system needs to be updated in general.
I can see myself forgetting about it. Although I will eventually remember. But the notifier could still be useful, if the notion I heard is true, about problems being more likely to happen if arch is not updated in a long while. So, with a notifier, I would update more often, and wouldn’t delay it for months.

[qaddosh]

I updated my system using yay just now. I restarted after the update completed just because. It wasn’t really necessary. But soon after I restarted, I would say maybe five minutes, a browser window opened spontaneously to the archlinux news page. It happened to me too.

[manuel]

Welcome to the forum!

Can you post the output of commands

eos-sendlog "systemctl --user status eos-update-notifier.timer; pacman -Q eos-update-notifier; cat /etc/eos-update-notifier.conf"