Howto pause system updates?

Aurora
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I restarted my computer and got this weeks update for Aurora stable. Unfortunately Firefox would not launch. Looks like a permission problem reading a file in the /run/user/1000/doc path. I rolled back to last weeks image that works and pinned it with ostree. How do I disable only the system updates in Aurora until this is fixed? I don’t think the toggle in settings works, correct? It’s the 41.20250406.2 image that has the problem.

❯ rpm-ostree status
State: idle
AutomaticUpdates: stage; rpm-ostreed-automatic.timer: no runs since boot
Deployments:
● ostree-image-signed:docker://ghcr.io/ublue-os/aurora-dx:stable
                   Digest: sha256:87643ac3caee7c17334a08dea4203266e81ab9c8de7a55ea5aed59a77ec28588
                  Version: 41.20250330.1 (2025-03-30T06:02:52Z)
          LayeredPackages: btrfs-assistant
                   Pinned: yes

  ostree-image-signed:docker://ghcr.io/ublue-os/aurora-dx:stable
                   Digest: sha256:fc4c54011427f808143a2983cf6ac0a686493c57bb1e8c144192854ec6fdf870
                  Version: 41.20250406.2 (2025-04-06T08:01:03Z)
          LayeredPackages: btrfs-assistant

  ostree-image-signed:docker://ghcr.io/ublue-os/aurora-dx:stable
                   Digest: sha256:231b770e7a4413aefe783ee019b16aeaff186ded0f2410d5b83ee31c2e4ddf36
                  Version: 41.20250224.6 (2025-02-24T16:03:34Z)
          LayeredPackages: btrfs-assistant
                   Pinned: yes
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what is the log saying when you try running firefox from terminal?

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The log said it could not read directory /run/user/1000/doc/by-app/org.mozilla.firefox. I tried to reproduce it with the latest Firefox update and it is not giving the error now. So I guess it might have been a bad Firefox flatpak install that got fixed when I updated it.

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BTW, to disable system updates I used these commands.

sudo systemctl stop rpm-ostreed-automatic.timer
sudo systemctl disable  rpm-ostreed-automatic.timer
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I also discovered this in Aurora Settings. I did not find it at first because I expected it to be under Software Update settings. I recommend adding these solutions to the official Aurora documentation so it is easier to find.

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