Removing Proxmox's subscription warning

About the Proxmox subscription warning

Every time you log in the Proxmox VE web console, or when you get into the updates section, you are met with the following warning:

This is bothersome, but there is a way to make the web console stop showing it.

Removing the subscription warning

Follow this procedure to remove or disable Proxmox’s subscription warning:

1. Open a root shell and cd to /usr/share/javascript/proxmox-widget-toolkit:

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

2. In that proxmox-widget-toolkit directory there is a javascript library file called proxmoxlib.js. Make a .orig 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, it is unique in the code), replace Ext.Msg.show with void:

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

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

   $ systemctl restart pveproxy.service

   This restart may take a few seconds.

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

Reverting the changes

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

1. Manually undoing the change you made in the proxmoxlib.js file.

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

   $ mv proxmoxlib.js.orig proxmoxlib.js

3. Reinstalling 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.orig "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 9.0. Bear also in mind that later Proxmox VE updates may undo this change and restore the warning, forcing your 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

• McLaren Data Systems. Remove Proxmox Subscription Notice (Tested to 8.4)