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macOS Big Sur Installation Failed: 'An Error Occurred While Installing the Selected Updates'
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people on reddit started sharing a direct download link from appstore, for the installation file - InstallAssistant.pkg
but these servers are now down too...
some people have it but so far nobody wants to share it on a p2p torrent or some other service... it's over 11GB.
but these servers are now down too...
some people have it but so far nobody wants to share it on a p2p torrent or some other service... it's over 11GB.
yesterday YouTube server was down for a while, today apple's... my guess is the server is too full of memes.
Resetting the SMC as above didn't do squat on my MBP. Kind of absurd they can't do an update on a $5,000 purchase. They obviously know the demand will be high...but have hundreds of billions in savings and a "spaceship" campus, but can't do an Operating System update.
And this is why I never update on day of release. I'll let all you guys get the kinks worked out and I'll update a few weeks from now or after the next.
Was so close to having it all downloaded before the never-ending failures started. Was actually excited about updating this time around too.
The install.log in the Console is showing that the Akamai servers are sending 'TCP_DENIED' to the requests to download the installer package. That could be because its been pulled , or could be down to all sorts of network issues at Apple, Akamai, or whoever. Eg...
2020-11-12 22:02:20+00 Colins-iMac com.apple.preferences.softwareupdate.remoteservice[599]: SUOSUShimController: Install finished with error: Error Domain=PKDownloadError Code=8 "(null)" UserInfo={NSUnderlyingError=0x600002ecf570 {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 22:02:20 GMT";
Expires = "Thu, 12 Nov 2020 22:02:20 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) (-)";
}
2020-11-12 22:02:20+00 Colins-iMac com.apple.preferences.softwareupdate.remoteservice[599]: SUOSUShimController: Install finished with error: Error Domain=PKDownloadError Code=8 "(null)" UserInfo={NSUnderlyingError=0x600002ecf570 {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 22:02:20 GMT";
Expires = "Thu, 12 Nov 2020 22:02:20 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) (-)";
}
Yeah spot on, would go further and suggest those who are super keen to get it today also have pretty good internet speeds and know what they're doing.
I can't really defend Apple here, especially when it's affecting third party apps, I saw a Zoom call earlier in this thread being disrupted. Here in the UK we are hitting the sack in a moment (22:12) but over Stateside or Oz, it's still business hours.
I don't recall having an issue like this last year, it was slow (couple hours). But I can't recall it failing 3/4 times etc.
All of us are hacking the servers. Our collective attempt to download Big Sur has created one gigantic ongoing DDoS attack. 😱
But I think Netflix drops their new stuff at 3am EST, not in the middle of the afternoon when the whole nation is fully awake and eager to download.
No excuse for Apple, just fair observation.
If this many apps across multiple companies are down it is likely the pump's card readers will be down also.
swingerofbirch
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Every time I think of giving Apple another chance . . .
(I'm still on a 13" rMBP from 2013 with Sierra . . . and every time I hear something like this I think about how the PC icons in macOS have the blue screen of death. Not sure if they still do in Big Sur, but if I were Apple I'd cut the hubris.)
(I'm still on a 13" rMBP from 2013 with Sierra . . . and every time I hear something like this I think about how the PC icons in macOS have the blue screen of death. Not sure if they still do in Big Sur, but if I were Apple I'd cut the hubris.)
