Software Update freezes, update installation hang.

[Sololop]

When I try and use software update, it will display "checking for new software" and go about 80% of the way in the bar, then freeze. The bar stops animating, I get a spinning wheel when I mouse over it, etc. I also cannot force quit software update when it does this, and not even "killing" the application does anything. It also hangs on shutdown, so if I want it to go away, I have to do a hard reboot.

I decided to download the 10.5.7 combo updater, and use that.

So I did.

However, the combo updater hangs at "configuring installation" for over an hour. I can force quit that, however. I don't know much about mac troubleshooting, I have repaired my disk permissions plenty of times, and also ran verify disk, and it believes the disk is fine.

Any tips for either problem would be great.

Thanks.

 

[kris.chaitu1985]

delete the contents in updates folder in library and do the software update again.hope it works.

 

[Sololop]

Thanks for your reply.

I went to empty the folder, but the folder is empty, nothing to delete.