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Installation stuck on 4 minutes remaining
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Hello,
I have the same situation. I have a MacBookPro Retina Late 2013, and my Yosemite install says 5 minutes remaining....
Should I restart? is there a way to get back to Mavericks if this isn't going to happen? eek.
Hello,
I have the same situation. I have a MacBookPro Retina Late 2013, and my Yosemite install says 5 minutes remaining....
Should I restart? is there a way to get back to Mavericks if this isn't going to happen? eek.
Update completed.. eventually
Just finished for me.
total time, about an hour and a half!
whoop!
Just finished for me.
total time, about an hour and a half!
whoop!
I'm stuck on 4 minutes remaining also, for about 4 hours! 
I see in the log that the installer is doing 'things' with all my files, I see a lot of "(NodeOp) Move "/volumes/............". Hope he will finish... some day...
I see in the log that the installer is doing 'things' with all my files, I see a lot of "(NodeOp) Move "/volumes/............". Hope he will finish... some day...
5 hours, expecting another 40 hours.
Checking the installation log, the installer started, 5 hours ago, to copy /usr/local sub directories one file at a time.
I have made an average of 10 files copied per second.
Since I have installed a lot of stuff in the /usr/local directory using Homebrew, added a lot of gems in my Ruby of Rails projects and use rvm to manage many versions of Ruby, I have a lot of these tiny files. Just with Latex or X-Windows packages and the dependency packages, there is more than 1.3 million files.
So, 40 hours to wait.
One issue (question) remains: what happened when the installer log shared buffer has reached its limit (128 x 1024 lines): did the installer continue to copy files or the logger creates an exception capable to stop the whole process?
Checking the installation log, the installer started, 5 hours ago, to copy /usr/local sub directories one file at a time.
I have made an average of 10 files copied per second.
Since I have installed a lot of stuff in the /usr/local directory using Homebrew, added a lot of gems in my Ruby of Rails projects and use rvm to manage many versions of Ruby, I have a lot of these tiny files. Just with Latex or X-Windows packages and the dependency packages, there is more than 1.3 million files.
So, 40 hours to wait.
One issue (question) remains: what happened when the installer log shared buffer has reached its limit (128 x 1024 lines): did the installer continue to copy files or the logger creates an exception capable to stop the whole process?
It will restart the installation from the beginning.
I did the reboot when I lost my patience. Now, I stuck at "About 4 minutes remaining" again and have waited about 1 hour .
I will wait patiently this time.
Just hang in there. As ycrepeau pointed out, it seems to be related to an inefficient copying of files into /usr/local.
For reference, it took ~8 hours before mine finished (mid-2010 iMac), but I have 600k files in my /usr/local (combination of homebrew and texlive).
For reference, it took ~8 hours before mine finished (mid-2010 iMac), but I have 600k files in my /usr/local (combination of homebrew and texlive).