HALP! OS X 10.5.6 Update Installation seems to have stalled...

Asked by benseven (3189

) March 13th, 2009

Eek,

Using the software update process, I’ve set my Macbook 2.0GHz CoreDuo (1st Gen) to download and install a whole bunch of updates for my mac. It’s restarted, and is installing the updates, but has been stuck at 13% for the last 20 minutes or so. I’m a bit concerned as I don’t want to rupture the OS by restarting the machine halfway through a software update install… Any ideas?

I’m in work for the next four hours so letting it carry on spinning the beach ball at me for now…

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50/50. Wait more until it either finishes or you run out of patience and force a restart. It either will restart, or you’ll have to revert to backup. You did a full backup right before running the updates, right?

simpleD (3644

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@simpleD -I bet he didn’t backup lol

I’d wait. Botched system updates are horrible. Give it a few hours

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I left it a couple more hours then forced a restart, and it was fine – I’d argue the necessity of a full backup before a system update as you’d have to be really unlucky for an update to fry your data rather than just corrupting the OS – but Id done one last night anyway so wasn’t too worried.

benseven (3189

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So did it slay your system?

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