I upgraded this morning. Estimates where way off. (Thanks for the CMD+L hint!) After a few hours, the Mac just reinstalled everything again. Waiting again for hours with "1 Minute" point. Worst upgrade experience with OSX ever.
Upgrading to Mac OS X 10.10 Yosemite as a Developer
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Re: Upgrading to Mac OS X 10.10 Yosemite as a Developer
#32Is there any stopping the update once it's started to move stuff around to get a better start...? Probably not, eh?
You can hit cmd+q from the screen where it's doing the install and it will quit out and let you reboot back into your OS.
Re: Upgrading to Mac OS X 10.10 Yosemite as a Developer
#33Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'll add that note. People with problems tended have >100k or more files.
See my reply above. A more accurate count on a keyboard with working keys is 243185. I'm starting to wonder whether the /usr/local-related delay is naturally about an hour, but vastly increased - sometimes catastrophically - by having the log window open. Just a theory.
I've gotten messages from people who didn't even know how to open the log viewer until hours into the process, so it's just a highly variable delay depending on individual circumstances.
Re: Upgrading to Mac OS X 10.10 Yosemite as a Developer
#34Not sure why the article hasn't considered this, but after moving /usr/local to another location and doing the Yosemite upgrade... you can always move the newly created Yosemite files/directories in /usr/local to your old local, rather than deleting them.
I've re-written the instructions a few times since I first posted it. Once it gets into conflicts and problems I can't cover everything, and I don't want to give a dozen commands for people to paste in and run for various scenarios and then screw people up more. I'll add a note to merge instead of replace, though, thanks!
Glad to help. Seems simple enough that people might think of it.
Re: Upgrading to Mac OS X 10.10 Yosemite as a Developer
#35Just a note: if your shell is set to something in `/usr/local` (e.g. `/usr/local/bin/zsh`), remember to set it back to `/bin/bash` before doing the move.
Re: Upgrading to Mac OS X 10.10 Yosemite as a Developer
#36Just a note: if your shell is set to something in `/usr/local` (e.g. `/usr/local/bin/zsh`), remember to set it back to `/bin/bash` before doing the move.
Yeah, I got caught by this so I was unable to open Terminal or iTerm. But using Terminal, I ran "Shell | Run Command...", entered "sudo chsh -s /bin/bash myuserid" and was then able to open a shell and move the local directory back.
Other than that, the upgrade was very smooth. Thanks for the help!
Re: Upgrading to Mac OS X 10.10 Yosemite as a Developer
#37I wish that I had read this before upgrading. I have tons of stuff installed via Homebrew, and after two hours of "2 minutes remaining," and seeing in the logs that it was "restoring" stuff from /usr/local, I gave up and went to bed.
Re: Upgrading to Mac OS X 10.10 Yosemite as a Developer
#38took me >24 hours without completing. I rebooted into the recovery partition, mounted the disk, moved aside the stuff in /usr/local and then re-installed. I dread to think how long it would have sat there burning crud into the LCD
Re: Upgrading to Mac OS X 10.10 Yosemite as a Developer
#39Hi all. If you want to feel better about your worst upgrade experience, I should inform you that mine started : Saturday, October 18, 2014 at 19:00 (local time Greece) and at this time is still stucked in : "2 minutes remaining" :)
Thank you Apple. I think nobody will ever beat this time!!! Not even windows v100!!! I think I'll go for the Guiness Record...