Anyone figure out how to resolve this?: "An error occurred while installing the selected updates".
I got to 100% downloaded and it got stuck and now anytime I attempt to install it I get that error immediately.
macOS Big Sur
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Re: macOS Big Sur
#462I wonder if them releasing it today is affecting developer.apple.com as it's timing out for me. Unfortunately, that means I can't be quite as productive as I'd to be right now.
Re: macOS Big Sur
#463Are their update servers being slashdoted? Pardon for archaic language.
According to Squid logs the updater tries to pull from http://swcdn.apple.com/content/downloads/50/49/001-79699-A_9... but a 403 (forbidden) error is returned and the following message appears on Software Update:
"An error occurred while installing the selected updates."
EDIT: as of now apparently there is an issue with the software update server.
Re: macOS Big Sur
#464Earlier quoted context omitted.
My current tab bar on 10.15.7 with Safari 14, you don't even need to upgrade to Big Sur. Cmd + hover lets you preview a page or close it. https://i.imgur.com/NS6Zjd6.png
Cmd doesn't do anything. The preview shows up on hover after a second.
Cmd allows you to close the tab without activating it.
Re: macOS Big Sur
#465I've been holding off upgrading because I didn't want to let go of Adobe Fireworks :(
I guess it's time to upgrade to Catalina.
Re: macOS Big Sur
#466Not a great download experience so far. It has already failed twice partway through (2nd time after 9.0 GB out of 12.0 GB). And since this is Apple, who has somehow never figured out how to implement resumable downloads, it just starts from scratch again.
Even worse, other stuff is breaking because Apple's infrastructure is on fire. Apps don't launch because signature checks are failing (ocsp.apple.com and crl.apple.com seem to be unreachable for me) and my Mac Pro hangs randomly for a few seconds every minute or so. It's quite ridiculous. :)
Omg, I keep rebooting in the last 20 minutes for no obvious reasons. Activity monitor just shows most of the apps as not responding.
Could it be because of this?
Re: macOS Big Sur
#467Twice bitten, thrice shy. Every MacOS upgrade for the past 5+ years has been a bag of hurt: regressions in functionality and stability, annoying "features" like Notification Center and Catalina warning nags, various PITAs on fixing UNIX/dev toolchains, all for little to no benefit. I've stopped upgrading all my machines (other than security updates), unless forced by a mission-critical app or a new machine.
Same. I'm still on Mojave
Re: macOS Big Sur
#468Earlier quoted context omitted.
It is great, but: 1. Just lost a few hundred Tabs from last session. Not the first time this has happened to me on Safari. ( Firefox used to have this problem as well, they implemented multiple LastSession.json to combat the problem and it is basically a thing of the past. ) 2. Fav Icons meant they are no longer showing the Tab Description once you have a dozen tabs as they will shrink to Icons Size. So you either ha…
> Just lost a few hundred Tabs from last session This is horrifying! How do you get to have one hundred tabs, or worse, a few hundred ?
Combination of depth-first browsing and FOMO. The one thing that's serendipitous about it is that you might just get to that article you opened up last week after all
Re: macOS Big Sur
#469Not a great download experience so far. It has already failed twice partway through (2nd time after 9.0 GB out of 12.0 GB). And since this is Apple, who has somehow never figured out how to implement resumable downloads, it just starts from scratch again.
Even worse, other stuff is breaking because Apple's infrastructure is on fire. Apps don't launch because signature checks are failing (ocsp.apple.com and crl.apple.com seem to be unreachable for me) and my Mac Pro hangs randomly for a few seconds every minute or so. It's quite ridiculous. :)
Good god, I thought I was losing my mind. I've been debugging those hangs, but hadn't made the connection with the OS launch. You have helped to preserve my remaining sanity.
Re: macOS Big Sur
#470Not a great download experience so far. It has already failed twice partway through (2nd time after 9.0 GB out of 12.0 GB). And since this is Apple, who has somehow never figured out how to implement resumable downloads, it just starts from scratch again.
Even worse, other stuff is breaking because Apple's infrastructure is on fire. Apps don't launch because signature checks are failing (ocsp.apple.com and crl.apple.com seem to be unreachable for me) and my Mac Pro hangs randomly for a few seconds every minute or so. It's quite ridiculous. :)
About 30 minutes ago I ended up restarting because my computer was unusable, only to find the exact same behavior after logging back in... It seems to be getting better now but wow, there was about 40 minute where I could essentially not use my computer because Apple's infra was getting hammered.