Stuck on "Estimating time remaining..."

[knirirr]

I've attempted to upgrade to 10.15 from 10.14, which has resulted in being stuck on the screen with "Estimating time remaining..." and a bar showing about 10% progress. It's been there now for 3 hours or so.

There have been other reports that it may take a long time, at least 4 hours and possibly over 24. Is there any means to see what's happening, or is it a case of having to wait?

Otherwise, it's tempting to try restarting, and restoring from backup (though I'd prefer to avoid that).

 

[rachalmers]

Same problem. I think it’s Apples servers overloading. I just posted about mine then noticed that the estimated time changed then went back. So it’s doing something, only doing it really slowly.
I’m just going to leave mine now and check back every few hours.

 

[Pinkhousewpg]

Estimated remaining time 3 minutes. 15 minutes later...same message. Come on Tim Apple you can do better.

 

[knirirr]

At least you have an estimated time - still no change on my system.
I'll probably pull the plug if it's still like this tomorrow morning.

 

[rachalmers]

Yes, me too. Stupid amount of time to do something. My wife’s iMac took like 25 minutes all told!

 

[knirirr]

It eventually completed the install overnight. It's still not usable for much due to something keeping the cpu at 100%, but at least it's up and I can log in etc.

 

[knirirr]

Luckily I have a full Time Machine backup from just before this "upgrade". Restoring now...

 

[IowaLynn]

Even Microsoft issued an update that broke things this month. Is there something in the air? Maybe fall releases and summer testing isn't wise.

OS X: wait for the last update. You don't want another 10.3.0 experience. Even Snow Leopard, a well lived version, was horrid if you had a 5,1 Mac Pro, while 10.6.8 was near perfect. And Lion couldn't get it right until the end 10.7 just before ML.

I think March will do. Same for iOS as well.

The reason I upgraded?

Apple Patches 16 Vulnerabilities With macOS Catalina 10.15

The fixed bugs include multiple memory corruption issues, a race condition, a logic issue, an issue with the handling of links in encrypted PDFs and another with the drawing of web page elements, a buffer overflow, a problem with clearing browsing history, and multiple issues in PHP.

Apple Patches 16 Vulnerabilities With macOS Catalina 10.15

Apple’s macOS Catalina 10.15 desktop operating system patches 16 vulnerabilities.

www.securityweek.com

 

[knirirr]

As you say, those fixes are worth considering an upgrade.
But, if I can't actually work, there's not much point.