Apple has had an ongoing issue with updating through the Apple store on older OS versions that sounds very similar. It can be a quarantine issue. I had to download third party apps to get around it.
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macOS Big Sur Installation Failed: 'An Error Occurred While Installing the Selected Updates'
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Getting excited about downloading Big Sur... and the realising you can't download Big Sur...
Everyone that was able to complete the download is seeing this...
In terminal:
tail -f /var/log/install.logThen try to run the update and you'll see the error in there
The site says that the problem is fixed. That is total BS. I am still having the problem.Apple - Support - System Status
Status for all planned and unplanned events for Apple Services.www.apple.com
I get errors like this instead (and no I am not a standard user):
Fatal: interaction not allowed (kAuthorizationFlagInteractionAllowed not set) (engine 1137)
Sandbox denied authorizing right 'system.install.app-store-software.standard-user' by client '/System/Library/CoreServices/Software Update.app/Contents/Resources/softwareupdated' [662] (engine 1139)
Run Console, select 'Log Reports' and open install.log & scroll down to the most recent entries. You'll see things like:
2020-11-12 23:25:17+00 Colins-iMac com.apple.preferences.softwareupdate.remoteservice[1187]: SUOSUShimController: Install finished with error: Error Domain=PKDownloadError Code=8 "(null)" UserInfo={NSUnderlyingError=0x600002954de0 {Error Domain=NSURLErrorDomain Code=-1102 "(null)" UserInfo={NSErrorFailingURLStringKey=http://swcdn.apple.com/content/down...x1n2wpf8rik5agns2z43ikqu/InstallAssistant.pkg, PKURLTransportErrorStatusCodeKey=403, PKURLTransportErrorResponseHeadersKey={
Connection = "keep-alive";
"Content-Length" = 406;
"Content-Type" = "text/html";
Date = "Thu, 12 Nov 2020 23:25:17 GMT";
Expires = "Thu, 12 Nov 2020 23:25:17 GMT";
"Mime-Version" = "1.0";
Server = AkamaiGHost;
"X-Cache" = "TCP_DENIED from a62-253-3-166.deploy.akamaitechnologies.com (AkamaiGHost/10.2.0.2-31441410) (-)";
To my untutored eye its not clear if a62-253-3-166.deploy.akamaitechnologies.com is the problem - or swcdn.apple.com
and here...no download in Germany...call it quits for today...maybe tomorrow...maybe...
Well, unless I'm reading it wrong you can see it pull from Akamai CDN in the logs, at least in some capacity...
"TCP_DENIED from a62-252-168-238.deploy.akamaitechnologies.com (AkamaiGHost/10.2.0.2-31441410) (-)";
Why would these apps be linked to hardware? Surely it’s your Apple ID that is the key element in how they work?
Wanted to give Big Sur a try on my fiancé’s Mac. Reminded me of why I left macOS for iPadOS years ago. iPadOS isn’t perfect by any means, but they completely botched this release. Hopefully the OS itself is much better, holding out hope.
I just noticed this in my system.log ...
Nov 12 17:33:20 macbook-pro com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.xpc.launchd.domain.pid.SoftwareUpdateC.3611): Failed to bootstrap path: path = /System/Library/CoreServices/Software Update.app/Contents/Resources/SoftwareUpdateConfigData, error = 2: No such file or directory
Nov 12 17:33:20 macbook-pro com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.xpc.launchd.domain.pid.SoftwareUpdateC.3611): Failed to bootstrap path: path = /System/Library/CoreServices/Software Update.app/Contents/Resources/SoftwareUpdateConfigData, error = 2: No such file or directory
For anyone who wants to upgrade now, can directly download the upgrade pkg file (http://swcdn.apple.com/content/down...x1n2wpf8rik5agns2z43ikqu/InstallAssistant.pkg)
Some times it would return 403 forbidden, try again later might solve the problem
Some times it would return 403 forbidden, try again later might solve the problem
Theres a ton of new accounts made within the last 30 minutes I've noticed. Somebody is trolling