G006 - Host configuration 04 ~ Removing subscription warning.md

G006 - Host configuration 04 ~ Removing subscription warning

Every time you login into the Proxmox VE web console, you are met with the following warning.

This is bothersome, but has an easy solution.

1. Open a root shell and execute the next cd command.

   $ cd /usr/share/javascript/proxmox-widget-toolkit

2. In that proxmox-widget-toolkit directory there's a javascript library file called proxmoxlib.js. Make a backup of it.

   $ cp proxmoxlib.js proxmoxlib.js.orig

3. Open the proxmoxlib.js file with a proper text editor (vi, vim or nano). Then, in the javascript code, search for the following text.

   Ext.Msg.show({
     title: gettext('No valid subscription'),

4. When you locate it (just search the No valid subscription string, its unique in the code), replace Ext.Msg.show with void, as shown below.

   void({ //Ext.Msg.show({
     title: gettext('No valid subscription'),

5. Save the change and exit the editor, then restart the Proxmox web service.

   $ systemctl restart pveproxy.service

   This restart may take a few seconds.

6. Browse to the Proxmox web console, but don't forget to refresh your browser's cache (Ctrl + F5) to ensure that you load the modified javascript. Log in and the subscription warning shouldn't appear now.

Reverting the changes

If you need to undo the change explained before, you have three options to revert it:

1. Undoing manually the changes you made in the proxmoxlib.jsfile.

2. Restoring the backup file you created of the file within the proxmox-widget-toolkit directory.

   $ mv proxmoxlib.js.orig proxmoxlib.js

3. Reinstall the proxmox-widget-toolkit package from the repository

   $ apt-get install --reinstall proxmox-widget-toolkit

Change executed in just one command line

To do the change in just one (long) command line, just use the following shell command.

$ sed -Ezi.bkp "s/(Ext.Msg.show\(\{\s+title: gettext\('No valid sub)/void\(\{ \/\/\1/g" /usr/share/javascript/proxmox-widget-toolkit/proxmoxlib.js && systemctl restart pveproxy.service

Final note

This fix is known to work on any version starting from Proxmox VE 5.1 up to 7.0-x. Also, bear in mind that any Proxmox VE update will undo this change and restore the warning, so you'll be force to apply this modification again.

Relevant system paths

Directories

• /usr/share/javascript/proxmox-widget-toolkit

Files

• /usr/share/javascript/proxmox-widget-toolkit/proxmoxlib.js

References

• Remove Proxmox Subscription Notice (Including 5.1+ & 6.2-12+)

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