| Re: 10.5.8 Update Stuck in "Configuring Installation" for 12 Hours [message #330334] |
Thu, 29 September 2016 03:52  |
NotMacUser
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I know this is an Old thread, but I recently ran into the same issues
trying to revive an old MacBook Pro 17". I went through a few days of
trying every online tip I could google, and finally... FINALLY.. i had a
eureka moment after reading a thread about doing it manually from the file
downloaded. Of course the manual install didn't work ... so I thought..
"Maybe the download is corrupt???"
So like a good Windows user, I tracked down the location of the original
downloads in my LIBRARY folder, under UPDATES. I deleted 3 files (
index.plst , MacOSXupdCombo10.5.8.pkg, and MacOSXupdCombo10.5.8.dist) and
re downloaded it from the apple Software update thingy ( where you click on
the apple in the top left corner).
10 minutes later, re downloaded the update files, clicked on it, and
immediately it shot past the 10% ( approx) that it was hung up for DAYS....
So that's it, apparently a corrupt file(s), that OSX apparently verified,
but it wasn't sound. All that cost me way too much of my life, but now I
get to reap the glory of solving my problem, and hopefully saving others
from the same fate. So if this works for you, then that validates this
as SOLVED!
On Wednesday, 26 October 2011 09:02:55 UTC-7, tr...@prismnet.com wrote:
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> I am trying to update a 1.25 GHz MDD (single G4) from a clean install
> of 10.5 to 10.5.8. Perhaps naively, I let Software Update do its
> thing and after a couple hours of downloading through our slow DSL
> connection, things were chugging along.
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> I should note that Software Update was performing five updates total,
> including the Mac OSX Combo 10.5.8 update.
>
> Last night the machine was sitting with a solid light blue screen with
> a message box in the center showing almost no progress on the progress
> bar and a caption reading, "Configuring Installation" and this morning
> it appears to be in exactly the same state.
>
> I can't seem to bring up the Activity Monitor (or whatever it's
> called) with a cmd-opt-esc and there are no menus nor buttons on the
> screen. However, I'm hesitant to shut down with the power button.
>
> Thank you for any helpful or humorous suggestions,
>
> Jeff Walther
>
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| Re: 10.5.8 Update Stuck in "Configuring Installation" for 12 Hours [message #330335 is a reply to message #330334] |
Thu, 29 September 2016 13:47  |
peterhaas
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> So that's it, apparently a corrupt file(s), that OSX apparently verified,
> but it wasn't sound. All that cost me way too much of my life, but now I
> get to reap the glory of solving my problem, and hopefully saving others
> from the same fate. So if this works for you, then that validates this
> as SOLVED!
Great news!
There are a few tell-tale files that can cause a great deal of hair-pulling.
I recently bought a Core 2 Duo MacMini off of eBay.
Came with MacOS X installed, but, alas, no superuser password.
Turns out that there is a tell-tale file which, when present, tells MacOS
X that a superuser password is to be used.
Erase that file and reboot, and then you will be greeted with the entire
"first time use" dialog set, including the setting (or not setting) of the
machine's superuser password.
All my in-house machines have no password, which is my preference as there
are no other users.
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