'Installing on Macintosh HD, about 5 min remaining- 60 mins ago!

[UKPoliticsGuy]

Hello all,

Successfully redeemed my copy of OS X Yosemite. It restarted then starting installing, but its stuck at 'About 5 minutes remaining' for the last hour.

It hasn't crashed. I can still move the cursor.

Now I'm worried. Do I restart? Eeek, help!

 

[BentwoodBlue]

Don't do anything. That was normal for me.

 

[UKPoliticsGuy]

Don't do anything. That was normal for me.

How long did you end up waiting?

 

[Apple_Robert]

If it has been stuck at 5 minutes to go for an hour+, the install process has hit a snag.

I installed on my MBP late 2011 with stock HD and it took about 25 minutes or so, to complete everything.

 

[UKPoliticsGuy]

Okay, I took the plunge and restarted.

It's now back with a black background with an apple logo and a progress screen. Let's hope it works!

 

[smartalic34]

While on the Installing screen, you can click on the top to reveal the meubar, then go to Windows --> Log --> All Processes and you can see if any process has occurred recently. My installation took over an hour (despite saying 22 minutes for 30 minutes) and the log did update every few minutes so I knew things were still churning... thought it got stuck at "Less than a minute remaining"... was there for 10 minutes, but the log kept showing progress and lo and behold, it finished

 

[UKPoliticsGuy]

Got a problem guys.

Back onto 5 minutes remaining again.

The installer log makes interesting reading.

It appears the installer is going crazy moving the texlive files from my MacTex distribution in:

/Volumes/Macintosh HD/Recovered Items/usr/local/texlive/2013

to another folder. Over 44,000 lines on the log have been written and then it deletes some lines before it goes back to 44,000 lines.

Do I let this go on all night? I don't mind if it does.

 

[BentwoodBlue]

On my older Mac Mini 2010 it took about 90 minutes at the 20 minutes remaining mark.