Big Sur Software Update Fix

There has recently been an issue occurring in our fleet in which the Software Updates section in Big Sur would hang; therefore, making users unable to update their OS

If you have also run into this issue, here’s one-liner to assist with that:

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#!/bin/sh

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# Terminates then restarts the software update service #
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launchctl kickstart -k system/com.apple.softwareupdated

exit 0

This runs silently, so I’ll push it to all of my Big Sur machines when the latest update comes through. Otherwise, Self Service works for those one-offs.

Take it easy y’all.